Margaret Elizabeth Kitto (July 28, 1873 – August 9, 1925) was an English-born Canadian

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. The daughter of Francis Bowyer Kitto and Lavinia Mary Tilly, she was born in London and came to Victoria with her family in 1891. In 1922, she opened the Deco Art Studio with Lillian Sweeney, also an artist; they produced and sold various arts and crafts. Kitto taught at the Sacred Heart Convent School and the Western Art Studio; she later taught evening classes for the local school board. Her pupils included Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher, who was Emily Carr's friend and biographer. She was a member of the

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, serving on the executive board from 1911 to 1917 and was vice-president in 1925. With

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, she led sketching parties for the Society. Her efforts led to the establishment of an art gallery in Victoria's Crystal Garden in 1925. She mainly worked in watercolour, painting local scenes. Her work is included in the collections of the

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and the British Columbia Provincial Archives. Her work was included in a 2016 exhibition ''Water+Pigment+Paper'' at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. She died in Victoria in 1925.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kitto, Margaret 1873 births 1925 deaths Canadian women artists British emigrants to Canada