Sylvia Tait

For the endocrinologist, see Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait.

Sylvia Tait (born March 20, 1932) is a Canadian abstract painter and print-maker.

Life

Tait attended the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School of Art and Design from 1949 to 1953, completing an undergraduate degree. Her instructors included Arthur Lismer, Jacques de Tonnancour, Marian Scott, Eldon Grier, Gordon Webber and William Armstrong. She married artist and poet Grier in 1954. He had long-standing connections in Mexico (including with Diego Rivera) and they spent extended periods in San Miguel de Allende in the late 1950s.[1] They moved to British Columbia in 1968 and Tait set up her studio in West Vancouver.[2][3]

Exhibitions and Influences

Tait has exhibited in Canada, Mexico and Ecuador since the 1950s. In Vancouver, the Bau-Xi Art Gallery has regularly had shows of her work since 1977. Among her influences was the Abstract Expressionism art movement. Although her early paintings were representational her mature and current works on canvas and on paper are purely abstract, showing a complex use of layered high key colour. Her work is inspired by classical music. Her work Aquascapes was installed at the West Vancouver Pool in 2004, and fully restored in 2013.[4]

Publications

Tait collaborated with her husband Eldon Grier and with John Huberman in the design and illustration of several books, including:[5]

References

  1. "Sylvia Tait article in Artists in Canada". Canadian Heritage Information Network. National Gallery of Canada. May 14, 2010. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  2. Morrissey, Stephen. "The Last Modernist: Eldon Grier in Canada, a review of Eldon Grier: Collected Poems, 1955-2000". StephenMorrissey.ca. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  3. Sylvia Tait - Artist's Biography. Vancouver, B.C.: Bau-Xi-Gallery. 1994.
  4. Watson, Anne (2013-10-13). "Art restored at West Vancouver pool". North Shore News. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  5. "Search of National Library of Canada Amicus library catalogue". Amicus Canadian National Catalogue. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 19 April 2015.

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