Ethel Seath

Ethel Seath (February 5, 1879 – April 10, 1963) was a Canadian artist.^[1]

The daughter of Norman Alexander Seath and Lizetta Annie Foulds, she was born in Montreal. Her parents separated when she was a teenager and she helped her mother raise her four siblings. Seath studied at the Conseil des arts et manufactures and, at the age of 16, found work as an illustrator at the Montreal Witness. In 1901, she began work at the Montreal Star and later moved to the Family Herald.^[2] In the meantime, she studied at the Art Association of Montreal with William Brymner, Maurice Cullen and Edmond Dyonnet.^[3] From 1917 to 1962, she was an art teacher at The Study, a private girls' school in Montreal. Her teaching methods were creative unlike the conformism of Victorian times. ^[4] Seath was a founding member of the Beaver Hall Group and was also a member of the Canadian Group of Painters. Her work was exhibited at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, England in 1924 and 1925, at the 1939 New York World's Fair and at the exhibition A Century of Canadian Art at the Tate in London, England.^[5][6]

Seath died in Montreal at the age of 84.^[1]

Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts^[6] and the Art Gallery of Ontario.^[5]

References

1. "Ethel Seath". National Gallery of Canada.
2. Walters, Evelyn (2005-11-12). The Women of Beaver Hall: Canadian Modernist Painters. Dundurn. p. 115. ISBN 9781770702097.
3. Walters, Evelyn (2005). The Women of Beaver Hall: Canadian Modernist Painters. Dundurn. pp. 111–117. ISBN 1550025880.
4. Little, Roger (1987). Retrospective exhibition : Ethel Seath (1879-1963).
5. Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G (2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. p. 501. ISBN 1135638896.
6. "Seath, Ethel". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Concordia University.