Margaret Frame (1903 – 1985) was a Canadian painter known for her portraiture.

Biography

Margaret Frame was born in 1903 in Oxford, Nova Scotia. In 1906 her family moved to Regina, Saskatchewan and there she studied with Inglis Sheldon-Williams and James Henderson. Continuing her education, from 1922 to 1924 Frame was in Boston where she studied at the Museum of Fine Arts. There she was encouraged by

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and

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. Frame then studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris for four years. In 1922 Frame's was included in the 44th exhibition of the

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in Montreal. In 1925 she exhibited two portraits at the

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in London. In 1926 Frame had her first solo exhibition at the Galérie de Marsan in Paris. In 1932 her portraits were included at the Salon of Women Painters and Sculptors of France. In 1943 Frame married Squadron Leader Hazlitt Seymour Beatty, R.A.F. She returned to Canada and opened a studio in Ottawa during

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. Among Frame's subjects were

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, and

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. In 1954 she painted a portrait of Margaret McCurdy who served as the "first lady" of Nova Scotia from 1947 to 1952. Frame died on December 18, 1985 in Napean, Ontario.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Frame, Margaret 1903 births 1985 deaths 20th-century Canadian women artists 20th-century Canadian artists Artists from Nova Scotia 20th-century Canadian painters Canadian women painters Canadian portrait artists