Forest View to Mountains

Forest View to Mountains, n.d. Oil painting by Nora Georgina Drummond-Davies (1862-1949)

Forest View to Mountains, n.d. Oil painting by Nora Georgina Drummond-Davies (1862-1949)

Name/Title

Forest View to Mountains

Entry/Object ID

2018.08.19

Description

Painting This landscape depicts large evergreen trees to the left foreground framing a view of forests and mountains in the middle ground and distance. The image showcases the rugged majesty and power of nature. The location is unknown.

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil on board

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Nora Georgina Drummond-Davies (1862-1949)

Role

Painter

Date made

n.d.

Time Period

20th Century

Notes

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 ca.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.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Signature

Location

Signed lower right: DRUMMOND

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Visible image

Height

50.8 cm

Width

36.8 cm

Acquisition

Notes

Detail unknown

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

By Nora Georgina Drummond-Davies: 2014.08.03 Beacon Hill and Olympics 2016.05.01 Forest Glade 2017.02.12 Mountain Lion 2018.08.19 Forest View to Mountains