Emily Warren

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Emily Warren
Born Emily Mary Bibbens
November 22, 1869
Exeter, Devon
Died June 28, 1956
Dunrobin, Ontario
Nationality Canadian
Known for painter

Emily Mary Bibbens Warren (1869–1956) was a British Canadian artist and illustrator. She worked in ink, watercolour, oil, gouache, and graphite. Her favourite subjects included gardens, landscape, and in interiors and exteriors of buildings. She is known for sunlight beaming through stained glass windows.

Early career

Emily Warren instigated a successful movement to have John Ruskin's home, Brantwood, made into a museum. She lectured before Ruskin Societies.

She took a course in architecture by Sir Bannister Fletcher. She graduated from the College of Art, South Kensington. She took certificates in biology, botany and geology. She came to Canada in 1919 and lived in Ottawa, Ontario. She lived in Montreal, Quebec from 1928 to 1934. She died in Dunrobin, Ontario in 1956.

Memberships

She was a member of The Royal Society of British Artists, The British Watercolour Society, the Old Dudley Arts Society, the Aberdeen Society of Arts and the Society of Women Artists. She was a member of the Committee for Preservation of Memorials in London.

Critical success

National Gallery of Canada purchased her oil painting "Placing the Canadian Colours on Wolfe's Monument in Westminster Abbey", an oil 19 × 37", which can be seen in the Picture Division -File No. 705-7, Room 12- 15 B.I. In 1921 she was commissioned by Sir Robert Borden to come to Canada to complete two large canvasses 6'6" × 11'6", oil painting entitled "Canada's Tribute, The Great War 1914–1919" and "Placing the Canadian Colours on Wolfe's Monument in Westminster Abbey".[1] The Canada Tribute paintings were initially hung in the Parliament Buildings but have been hung in the Sir Arthur Currie Memorial Hall of the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario since 1947.

Final years

She travelled and painted in British Columbia, Belgium. Scotland and France. She exhibited in England. She illustrated `Homes and Haunts of John Ruskin` by E.T. Cook. She gave lectures in Canada in the 1920s and 1930s illustrated by 1900 handcoloured glass slides reproducing her own paintings. Half of the 1900 slides are in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, along with an extensive collection of correspondence, lecture notes, and biographical material. Two boxes of slides of drawings of individual generals' faces and of flags, preliminary drawings for her paintings, "Canada's Tribute" and "Placing the Canadian Colours on Wolfe's Monument in Westminster Abbey", are in the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa.

She held an annual sale of watercolours in Ottawa, Ontario. There was a demand for her paintings of Canada, England and the continent of Europe.[2]

Illustrations for books

Work

Museums

Her work is in the collections of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario and the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario

Recognition

In 1939 the Royal Society of British Artists made her an R.B.A..

Notes

  1. ↑ http://www.library.ubc.ca/spcoll/AZ/PDF/R/Robertson_James_Wilson.pdf Poster of "Canada’s Tribute, The Great War 1914–1919" oil painting by E.M.B. Warren, A.R.B.A. and Key to above poster/painting, including regimental colours
  2. ↑ http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/warren.pdf Emily Warren
  3. ↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=74493 Date accessed: 12 April 2010.

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