Prudence Heward (1896 – 1947) was a Canadian painter principally known for her figure painting with "brilliant acid colors, sculptural treatment, and an intense brooding quality". She was a member of the Beaver Hall Group and a co-founder of the Canadian Group of Painters and the Contemporary Arts Society.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada into a well-to-do family, Heward was the sixth of eight children and was educated at private schools. She showed an interest in art at a young age.
During World War I, Heward lived in England where her brothers served in the Canadian Army while she served as a volunteer with the Red Cross. Returning to Canada at war's end, she continued her painting and joined the Beaver Hall Hill Group. In 1924 her works were given their first public showing at the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in Toronto. However, it was still an era when women artists were given little credibility and it wasn't until 1932 that Heward's first solo exhibition came in Montreal.
Wanting to refine her skills, and drawn to the great gathering of creative genius in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, between 1925 and 1926 Prudence Heward lived and painted in Paris.
While in Paris, Heward met Ontario painter Isabel McLaughlin with whom she became friends and would later join with her and other artists on nature painting trips. In 1929 her career got a major boost when her painting, Girl on a Hill, won the top prize in the Governor-General Willingdon competition organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
She was invited to exhibit with the Group of Seven and through it became friends with A. Y. Jackson with whom she would go on sketching excursions along the Saint Lawrence River. She did a number of landscapes, with a particular attachment for Quebec's Eastern Townships.
She joined the executive committee of The Atelier: A School of Drawing Painting Sculpture in 1931. During the Second World War, she designed war posters. In 1933, Prudence Heward co-founded the Canadian Group of Painters, but her struggle with asthma and other health problems eventually slowed her down.
Though Heward also painted landscapes and still lifes, she was primarily a painter of human subjects. As Julia Skelly points out in Prudence Heward: Life & Work, Heward preferred the term “figures” to portraits, and most of her figurative paintings are of women.
On July 2, 2010, Canada Post released a commemorative stamp and a souvenir sheet in honor of Heward as part of its Art Canada collection. The two paintings featured were At the Theatre (1928) and Rollande (1929).
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Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada into a well-to-do family, Heward was the sixth of eight children and was educated at private schools. She showed an interest in art at a young age.
During World War I, Heward lived in England where her brothers served in the Canadian Army while she served as a volunteer with the Red Cross. Returning to Canada at war's end, she continued her painting and joined the Beaver Hall Hill Group. In 1924 her works were given their first public showing at the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in Toronto. However, it was still an era when women artists were given little credibility and it wasn't until 1932 that Heward's first solo exhibition came in Montreal.
Wanting to refine her skills, and drawn to the great gathering of creative genius in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, between 1925 and 1926 Prudence Heward lived and painted in Paris.
While in Paris, Heward met Ontario painter Isabel McLaughlin with whom she became friends and would later join with her and other artists on nature painting trips. In 1929 her career got a major boost when her painting, Girl on a Hill, won the top prize in the Governor-General Willingdon competition organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
She was invited to exhibit with the Group of Seven and through it became friends with A. Y. Jackson with whom she would go on sketching excursions along the Saint Lawrence River. She did a number of landscapes, with a particular attachment for Quebec's Eastern Townships.
She joined the executive committee of The Atelier: A School of Drawing Painting Sculpture in 1931. During the Second World War, she designed war posters. In 1933, Prudence Heward co-founded the Canadian Group of Painters, but her struggle with asthma and other health problems eventually slowed her down.
Though Heward also painted landscapes and still lifes, she was primarily a painter of human subjects. As Julia Skelly points out in Prudence Heward: Life & Work, Heward preferred the term “figures” to portraits, and most of her figurative paintings are of women.
On July 2, 2010, Canada Post released a commemorative stamp and a souvenir sheet in honor of Heward as part of its Art Canada collection. The two paintings featured were At the Theatre (1928) and Rollande (1929).
© 2019. All content on this blog is protected by international copyright laws All images are copyrighted © by Prudence Heward or assignee. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only
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| Ms. Prudence Heward |
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| 1924, Eleanor |
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| 1925, In Devonshire |
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| 1927, Anna |
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| 1928, At the Theatre |
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| 1928, Girl on a Hill |
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| 1928, Les immigrants |
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| 1929, At the Cafe (Miss Mabel Lockerby) |
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| 1929, Rollande |
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| 1930, The Bather |
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| 1931, Girl Under a Tree |
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| 1933, Farm |
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| 1933, Farmhouse and Car |
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| 1933, The Blue Church, Prescott |
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| 1934, Countryside |
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| 1935, Dark Girl |
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| 1935, Landscape |
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| 1936, Indian Head |
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| 1936, Girl in Yellow Sweater |
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| 1936, Indian Child |
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| 1938, Back Garden |
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| 1938, Clytie |
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| 1938, Farmer's Daughter |
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| 1938, September |
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| 1939, Fruit in the Grass |
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| 1939, In Bermuda |
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| 1940, Mrs. Decco (Italian Woman) |
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| 1941, Autumn Fields, Knowlton |
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| 1941, Autumn Hills |
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| 1941, Girl in the Window |
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| 1941, Late October, Knowlton, P.Q. |
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| 1942, Ann |
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| 1942, Autumn (Girl with an Apple) |
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| 1942, Autumn Road in Knowlton |
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| 1943, Portrait of Mrs. Zimmerman |
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| 1945, Sarah Eliot |
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| 1945, The Farmer's Daughter |
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| 1946, Vase of Flowers |
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| 1946, Vase of Flowers I |
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| Negress with Flower, (n.d) |
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| Prudence Heward Stamp |
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