Canadian Artist Louise Scott Signed Oil Painting. Shakespeare Character

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Canadian Artist Louise Scott Signed Oil Painting. Shakespeare Character:
$995.00

For sale is one of three large full length oil on canvas portrait paintings of medieval figures from the highly listed and worldwide collected Canadian artist. Louise Scott(1936-2007).

We are selling all three here on our s store.

This painting was purchased from an elderly lady who moved from Canada to Florida. All three paintings were purchased in Montreal we believe.

It features what we believe to be a figure from Shakespeare\'s Hamlet. Possibly Polonius. We are unsure.

This painting was framed by:

CADRE D\'ART L.C. Inc Montreal(Ave Rome)

Condition: Excellent. Small gilt loss on frame.

Signed by the artist lower right.

Measurements:

Frame- 44 3/4\" x 22 3/4\"

Canvas - 42\" x 20\"

Louise Scott (1936 - 2007)

A painter, printmaker, illustrator and educator, Louise Scott was born in New York City and died in Montreal, Quebec, where she had lived since 1958. She immigrated to Canada, with her Canadian parents, when she was two years old and grew up in Ottawa, Ontario and Lockeport, Nova Scotia (concurrently with Ottawa). Later, she also had a studio on Corkums Island, Nova Scotia (c.1995). Her works are in the permanent collections of several Canadian museums including the National Gallery of Canada. (1)

Her mediums included oils, watercolors, pastels, etchings, serigraphs, lithographs and mixed mediums. Her subjects included portraits, figures, family, nudes, clowns, oriental and medieval influenced images, genre, allegory, whimsy, symbolism, and social commentary. Her styles could be described as Fauvism*, Modernism*, Pop Art* and Primitivism*

Her art education includes studies at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1956 - 1958); and at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts (the current name), Salzburg, Austria (1958), under Oscar Kokoschka. Scott taught briefly (1969 - 1970) as a lecturer in fine arts at Sir George William\'s University (now Concordia University), Montreal.

Her works were exhibited in the \"Spring Exhibition\", Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec (1964); \"The Ontario Centennial Art Exhibition\", Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (1967); \"People and Places in Quebec: From Macamic to Montreal\", Montreal Museum of Fine Arts [shown at Man and His World, Montreal] (1974); \"Quebec Fete\", Centre d\'Art du Mont-Royal, Montreal (1975); \"Les Femmeuses 88\", Pratt & Whitney Canada, Longueuil, Quebec (1988); \"Women Painters of Quebec\", Musee Marc-Aurele Fortin, Montreal (1990); and in \"Gifts 1989 - 1994\", Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Quebec (1995).

Her first solo shows were at Galerie Libre, Montreal in 1965 and 1967. Since then her works were exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at numerous other prominent galleries such as the West End Gallery, Montreal; Galerie Dresdnere, Toronto; Galerie L\' Art Français, Montreal; Masters Gallery, Calgary; Keenlyside Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.; Zwicker\'s Gallery, Halifax; and at Galerie Jean-Pierre Valentin, Montreal.

According to the Canadian Heritage Information Network* and individual museum websites, her works are in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax), Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Fredericton, New Brunswick), Galerie Montcalm (Gatineau, Quebec), Joliette Art Museum (Quebec), La Pulperie (Chicoutimi, Quebec), Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Concordia University, Montreal), Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art (Quebec), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Quebec), Musee de Charlevoix (La Malbaie, Quebec), Musee de Lachine (Montreal), Quebec Museum of Fine Arts (Quebec City), Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa, Ontario), Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts (Quebec), and the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa).