Nice Painting from Adelaide Munn

Sorry about that last one - here's a nicer one.

Oil on canvas, about 50 X 25 CM. It's signed "Adelaide Munn/38". I've found her in some newspaper articles from Montreal where she is listed as exhibiting with some other artists.

 

Oh, that is nice.

Debora

 

AND it's even got a LEGIBLE signature!!!

 

Here's a photo of a newspaper clipping from "La Presse" dated 1943 that mentions her exhibiting during the "Salons du Printemps". Sorry for the quality- it's a picture of a printout that is very small.

Basically it lists a painting from Adelaide Munn entitled "Marshs Marigolds", which may be the work I have here, based on the subject matter.

 

May well be.

Debora

 

So that "Salon de Printemps" would of course be in Quebec, probably Montreal, as in Paris during 1943 there would likely be a rather more sombre series of events, no?

 

Yes, the newspaper, La Presse, is a Montreal newspaper. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:

"La Presse, founded in 1884, is a French-language digital newspaper published daily in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is owned by a social trust. La Presse was a broadsheet daily published seven days a week that was considered a newspaper of record in Canada."