Estelle Muriel Kerr

Estelle Muriel Kerr
Born 1879
Toronto, Canada
Died 1971
Nationality Canadian
Occupation Painter and critic

Estelle Muriel Kerr (1879-1971) was a Canadian painter, illustrator and writer.

Life

Estelle Muriel Kerr was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1879.[1] In Toronto she studied with Mary Ella Dignam and Laura Muntz Lyall.[2] She studied at The New York Art Students League (NYASL) for about two years from 1901.[1] She also spent two years at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. During the summers she sketched in Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.[2]

Around 1913 Kerr shared a studio in Toronto with Dorothy Stevens. In World War I (1914-1918) she drove an ambulance in France. She became well known as an art critic and a painter of children.[1] She also painted landscapes and figure studies.[2] Kerr was among the founding members of the Graphics Art Club and the Heliconian Club.[1] Kerr died in 1971.

Publications

Kerr illustrated several children's books and contributed illustrated stories and poems to several publications. She published:[2]

Selected writings

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