Artist Information
Artist
Nora Georgina Drummond-Davies (1862-1949)Role
PainterDate made
n.d.Time Period
20th CenturyNotes
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Born in Bath, Somerset, England Nora Drummond-Davies was an English, later Canadian artist and illustrator. She was the second child in a large family of 14 children, a member of an artistic family of painters, teachers and tutors. Her father was Master of the Bath School of Art and Design and an art tutor to the Royal Family. She immigrated to Alberta around 1900, where she provided private art lessons to Peter Whyte (1905-1966), whose paintings and collections and those of his wife Catharine Robb Whyte, OC (1906-1979), later formed the basis for the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies in Banff.
Drummond-Davies worked in oil, gouache, and watercolour, painting in a representational, naturalist style. Her subject matter included portraits, genre, daily life, First Nations and landscapes. Much of her illustration work, often featuring dogs and country pursuits, was produced for Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., a British publishing company, with interests in the United States and Canada, well known before World War II for its art postcards.
She later moved to Victoria B.C, where she was a member of the Island Arts and Crafts Society and the Victoria Sketch Club. She exhibited with the Island Arts and Crafts Society from 1925 to 1932 and at the Vancouver Art Gallery in the 1933 Vancouver Island Exhibition.
