Object Record
Images
Metadata
Accession # |
AC1993.5.1 |
Item Name |
Pencil Drawing Watercolour |
Description |
Pencil drawing on white paper, tinted with watercolour paint, by Canadian artist Inez Thompson (1913-1993), entitled "Showy Lady's Slipper", ca. 1975; it depicts a pink and yellow lady's slipper flower on a green stalk with green leaves, each a different hue of green; signed lower right, "Inez". Art Box 1. |
Date |
Circa 1975 |
Provenance |
Inez Evelyn Thompson (1913-1993) was born in Toronto to teacher John Fletcher Thompson and Myrtle Mary Burse. In the 1940s through 1960s she lived and worked in Streetsville, Ontario, as a commercial artist. She moved to Hillsburgh in 1970, and to Erin Township in the early 1980s. She is buried in the family plot at Toronto's Mount Pleasant Cemetery. On 24 May 2013, Laurel Parsons posted on boards.ancestry.ca the following reminiscence, "My father, Fred Thompson, was Inez's cousin, and I was taken to her home occasionally as a child when we visited her in her studio. She was a lovely, quiet, hospitable lady who was a gifted artist." |
Person \ Organization |
Burse, Myrtle Thompson, Inez (Miss) Thompson, John |
Place |
Canada Erin Twp. Hillsburgh Ontario Streetsville Toronto |
Year Range from |
1970 |
Year Range to |
1980 |
Art number |
Art 485 |
Creator \ Maker |
Thompson, Inez (Miss) |
Subjects |
Flowers |
Title (art only) |
Showy Lady's Slipper |
Art Image size |
24 (h) x 17.9 (w) cm. |