Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915–1984) was a Canadian artist who lived nearly all of her life in Alberta. She worked in a number of mediums but is best known for her block printing.

Biography

Margaret Shelton was born August 15, 1915, in Bruce, Alberta. From 1933 to 1934 she attended the Normal School in

Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...

eventually earning her teaching certificate and teaching for a brief time. She attended night and summer classes at the

Provincial Institute of Technology and Art Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (PITA) was the predecessor institution of both the Alberta University of the Arts and Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. In 1933, Marion Nicoll Marion Florence Nicoll (née MacKay; 11 April 190 ...

(PITA) from 1934 through 1943. In 1938 she earned her MFA from the

Banff School of Fine Arts Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, formerly known as The Banff Centre (and previously The Banff Centre for Continuing Education), located in Banff, Alberta, was established in 1933 as the Banff School of Drama. It was granted full autonomy as ...

. Shelton was a member of the Alberta Society of Artists, the Calgary Sketch Club, the

Canadian Society of Graphic Art The Canadian Society of Graphic Art (CSGA), originally called the Graphic Arts Club, was a non-profit organization of Canadian graphic artists. It was founded in 1904, and formally chartered in 1933. At one time it was one of the larger organizatio ...

, and the

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. She had major exhibitions at the

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, British Columbia in 1981, and at the

Glenbow Museum The Glenbow Museum is an art and history regional museum in the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The museum focuses on Western Canadian history and culture, including Indigenous perspectives. The Glenbow was established as a private non-profi ...

, Calgary in 1985. Shelton died in 1984 in Calgary. Shelton was included in the 2012 exhibition ''Alberta Mistresses of the Modern: 1935-1975'' at the

Art Gallery of Alberta The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) is an art museum in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The museum occupies a building at Churchill Square in downtown Edmonton. The museum building was originally designed by Donald G. Bittorf, and B. James Wensley, alth ...

Bibliography

*Ainslie, Patrici. ''Margaret Shelton: Block Prints 1936-1984'' Glenbow Museum, exhibition catalogue, Calgary, Alberta, 1984 *Cochran, Bente Roed. ''Printmaking in Alberta, 1945-1985'' University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Alberta, 1989 p159

External links

images of Margaret Shelton art
on The Collectors' Gallery
The Glenbow Museum entry on Margaret Shelton

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shelton, Margaret 1915 births 1984 deaths Artists from Alberta 20th-century Canadian women artists