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Feb 05, 1879 Died on 10 Apr 1963 (aged 84)
Canadian painter
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About Ethel Seath
- Ethel Seath (February 5, 1879 – April 10, 1963) was a Canadian artist.
- Seath was a prominent figure in the Montreal art scene for sixty years and her artistic work included being a painter, printmaker (etching), commercial artist, and art instructor at the all-girls private school, The Study, in Montreal.
- Seath’s oil and watercolour paintings were primarily in still life and landscape, exploring colour and adding abstract elements to everyday scenes. With her father’s failing business, chronic health issues and later separation from her mother, Seath joined the workforce right after high school to help support her mother and four siblings.
- She spent two decades as a commercial illustrator for various newspapers, the Montreal Witness and later the Montreal Star, constantly improving with supportive mentors at the companies.
- Seath achieved success within her illustrative career and financially she was able to afford art classes at the Art Association of Montreal and sketching trips of the Quebec countryside with Maurice Cullen.
- She began instructing art as a teacher at The Study which she continued for forty-five years.
- Her teaching methods were creative unlike the conformism of Victorian times.
- Being up to date with new trends, Seath encouraged creativity and exploration believing that, "The aims of Art education are to help children to see, to feel and to express beauty with clean, spontaneous feeling.
- It should given them the ability to use the experience of everyday life creatively, in order that they may gain increased intelligence through the use of their hands .
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- Nearly all children have something to say through drawing, and training in Art results in refinement of thought, eye and hand.".Seath was a founding member of the Beaver Hall Group and was also a member of the Canadian Group of Painters in which she entered art into local and international exhibitions such as in Baltimore, Maryland (1931), Yale University, Cambridge, and Massachusetts.
- Her work was also exhibited at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, England in 1924 and 1925, at the 1939 New York World's Fair and at the exhibition A Century of Canadian Art at the Tate in London, England.
