Alicia Killaly

Alicia Killaly
Born1836 (1836)
London, Ontario
Died1908 (aged 71–72)
Grantham, United Kingdom
Known forPainter
SpouseC. H. Turner

Alicia Killaly (also called Alice Killaly[note 1]; 1836–1908) was a Canadian watercolour painter. She was born in London, Upper Canada in 1836. She lived in Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto during the 1840s and 1850s. Killaly married Christopher Hatton Turnor, a former British soldier, in 1871 and moved to England.[2] Killaly died in 1908 in Grantham, Lincolnshire.[2]

A watercolour from the sketchbook of an unknown artist in the collection of the Toronto Public Library is titled Camping Out No. 2: Alice Killaly Sketching in a Canoe, Sparrow Lake, Ontario. May 1867. It shows the subject alone in a canoe in a lake, mostly hidden under a large umbrella.[3]

Her work depicts outdoor scenes in Canada, such as canoe trips, frozen rivers and Niagara Falls, and she may have been a student of Cornelius Krieghoff. Her watercolour, Quebec From Across the St. Lawrence, from about 1867, is in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum.[4] An 1868 series of chromolithographs, A Picnic at Montmorency, on the subject of a humorous winter picnic is her only known commercial venture. Copies of these lithographs are held at the National Gallery of Canada,[5] McCord Museum of Canadian History and the Royal Ontario Museum, where they were part of the 2013 exhibit, Brushing It in the Rough: Women, Art and Nineteenth Century Canada.[6][7] She is not known to have produced any artworks after her marriage.

  1. ^ Near Toronto Archived 2018-01-03 at the Wayback Machine, Toronto Reference Library, Baldwin Collection, Accession Number: 986-6-2
  2. ^ a b "Killaly, Alicia". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  3. ^ Camping Out No. 2: Alice Killaly Sketching in a Canoe, Sparrow Lake, (Gravenhurst), Ontario. Archived 2018-01-03 at the Wayback Machine, Toronto Reference Library, Baldwin Collection, Accession Number: 982-28-37
  4. ^ Quebec From Across the St. Lawrence, Google Arts and Culture
  5. ^ A Picnic to Montmorenci: Coming Down is Easier but More Dangerous, 1868 Archived 2015-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, National Gallery of Canada
  6. ^ Brushing It in the Rough: Women, Art and Nineteenth Century Canada Archived 2018-01-03 at the Wayback Machine, Royal Ontario Museum, August 13, 2013
  7. ^ Farr, Dorothy; Luckyj, Natalie (1975). From Women's Eyes: Women Painters in Canada. Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre. p. 18.


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