Frances Bannerman (née Jones) (1855 – 1944) was a Canadian painter and poet.
Biography
She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1855. She was the youngest daughter of Lt. Governor Alfred G. Jones and Margaret Wiseman Stairs.[1] She grew up in what is now the Waegwoltic Club. She produced watercolours, oils, and black and white illustrations. In 1886, at age 31, she married Hamlet Bannerman, a London painter, in Halifax and that year they moved to Great Marlowe, England.[2] Her best-known poem is "An Upper Chamber", which is included in the Oxford Book of English Verse.
Bannerman is one of the first North American artists to be influenced by Impressionism.[3] In 1882, she was the first woman to be elected an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy, and only the second woman to be a member of that academy (the first being Academician Charlotte Schreiber).[3] In 1883, she exhibited in the Paris Salon. One of the works she submitted, Le Jardin d'hiver (The Conservatory), "is the first Canadian subject ever to be shown in that venue."[3][4] She moved to Italy in 1901, and stayed there until the Second World War forced her to leave. She returned to Torquay, England, where she died in 1944.[1]
Works
- "Le Jardin d'hiver" ("The Conservatory) (submission to the 1883 Salon)
- "An Upper Chamber"
- Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Collection
- Her art is exhibited at the art gallery of The Rooms in Newfoundland.
References
- ^ a b "Canada's Early Women Writers. SFU Library Digital Collections - Bannerman, Frances Jones". www.sfu.ca. Simon Fraser University. 2014. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
- ^ Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Archived June 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c "Canadian Women Artists History Initiative : Artist Database : Artists : Bannerman, Frances Jones". cwahi.concordia.ca. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
- ^ "Canadian Women Artists History Initiative : Gallery : Frances Jones Bannerman, The conservatory". cwahi.concordia.ca. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
Further reading
- O`Neill, Mora Dianne; Stone, Caroline (c. 2006). Two artists time forgot: Frances Jones (Bannerman) & Margaret Campbell Macpherson = Deux artistes oubliées par l'histoire: Frances Jones (Bannerman) & Margaret Campbell Macpherson. Halifax: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. ISBN 1554570689.
- Prakash, A.K. (2015). Impressionism in Canada: A Journey of Rediscovery. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers. pp. 648–649. ISBN 978-3-89790-427-9.
External links
- Canadian Woman Artists: Artists Database
- Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
- Bannerman in SFU Digitized Collections, Simon Fraser University, Coll. Canada's Early Women Writers (with photograph)