Nationality Canadian Period Modernism Role Artist | Name Unity Bainbridge Known for Painting, Writing | |
Born 1916 Vancouver, British Columbia Movement Modernism, Contemporary Realism Awards Order of British Columbia 1993 Education Emily Carr University of Art and Design | ||
Unity Bainbridge OBC (born 1916) is a Canadian artist and writer of poetry inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and its landscape.
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Early life
Unity Bainbridge was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1916.
Education
Bainbridge studied in Vancouver at the then newly formed Vancouver School of Art from 1932-1936 under Grace Melvin and Charles H. Scott.
Career
Bainbridge, in the early 1930s trekked through a vast area of British Columbia's remote wilderness. She preferred to work alone and shunned most art groups. She was invited to join the Canadian Portrait Academy as a Founding Academician, but declined this offer.
She met Lawren Harris in Vancouver in the 1930s and A.Y. Jackson in Toronto. In 1976-77 she compiled her research and images from repeated trips to communities between Pemberton and Lillooet. The works comprise Songs of Seton and Lullaby of Lillooet, two small books Bainbridge published in limited editions."
Exhibitions
Collections
Awards
Bainbridge received the Order of British Columbia in 1993.
Publications
Artists' Books
Group Exhibition Catalogue