Biography

Lilias Torrance Newton was born in Lachine, Quebec

Lachine, Quebec

Lachine was a city on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is now a borough within the city of Montreal.-History:...

, a suburb of Montréal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 in Canada

Canada

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 in 1896. She attended the Art Association of Montreal, under the tutelage of William Brymner

William Brymner

William Brymner, CMG was a Canadian art teacher and a figure and landscape painter.-Early years:Born in Greenock, Scotland, the son of Douglas Brymner the first Dominion Archivist and Jean Thomson, he moved with his family to Melbourne, Lower Canada in 1857. In 1864, his family moved to Montreal...

. She was then tutored by Alfred Wolmark

Alfred Wolmark

Alfred Wolmark was a painter and decorative artist. He was a pioneer of the New Movement in Art.Wolmark was born into a Jewish family in Warsaw...

 in London

London

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 and Alexandre Jacovleff

Alexandre Jacovleff

Alexandre Yevgenievich Jacovleff was a Russian neoclassicist painter, draughtsman, designer and etcher.-Biography:...

 in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. During the First World War, she worked for the Red Cross in England

England

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. She was married in 1921 and had one child. She was divorced in 1933.

She was elected an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1923 and Academician in 1939 and 1973. She was also a founding member of the Beaver Hall Group

Beaver Hall Group

The Beaver Hall Group was a Montreal based assemblage of Canadian female painters formed in May 1920 by artists who had met while studying art at a school run by Art Association of Montreal ....

 and the Canadian Group of Painters

Canadian Group of Painters

The Canadian Group of Painters was a collective of 28 painters from across Canada which came together as group in 1933. They succeeded the disbanded Group of Seven, whose paintings of the Canadian wilderness had been a strong influence on Canadian art....

. She also taught at her alma mater

Alma mater

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, the Art Association of montreal, and received an honorary LL.D. from the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

.

She died in Cowansville, Quebec

Cowansville, Quebec

Cowansville is a town in south-central Quebec, Canada, located on Lac Davignon north of the U.S. border. It is the seat of Brome-Missisquoi, a regional county municipality...

 in 1980.

Her work is exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada

National Gallery of Canada

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, the Edmonton Museum, the Calgary Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario

Art Gallery of Ontario

Under the direction of its CEO Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO embarked on a $254 million redevelopment plan by architect Frank Gehry in 2004, called Transformation AGO. The new addition would require demolition of the 1992 Post-Modernist wing by Barton Myers and Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg...

, the Hart House

Hart House

Hart House is a student activity centre at the University of Toronto. Established in 1919, it is one of the earliest North American student centres. Hart House was initiated and financed by Vincent Massey, an alumnus and benefactor of the university, and was named in honour of his grandfather, Hart...

, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the Musée du Quebec, the War Museum in Ottawa, etc.