Artist Information
Artist
Hilda Joyce Stewart, ARSMP (1892-1978)Role
PainterDate made
n.d.Time Period
20th CenturyNotes
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Born in London, Hilda Joyce Stewart was an English-Canadian artist. Both her parents were artists who had studied at the Royal Academy of Art, London where she studied - anatomy, life drawing and watercolour. At age 18 she had her first miniature accepted to the Royal Academy and was the youngest person ever elected as an associate member to the Royal Society of Miniature Painters.
Stewart taught art at London's Polytechnic Art School (1908-1921) and also showed her work in various exhibitions, before immigrating to Saskatchewan in 1921. She painted in the Rocky Mountains, and later taught art at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina College (1935 -1936) and in Saskatoon, 1937-1948. Stewart exhibited her work — miniatures, still lifes, portraits, and landscapes — in Saskatchewan and beyond. She helped to organize the Saskatoon Art Association and was a founding member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. In 1948, she retired to Vancouver, where she had solo and group exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Her works are held by a number of institutions and Galleries in Saskatchewan, as well as the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Royal Society of Miniature Painters , Sculptors and Engravers in London.
