Olivet College, Michigan, Ontario School of Art and Art Institute of Chicago
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Figurative
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Fellow of Royal Society of Arts
Mildred Valley ThorntonFRSA (May 7, 1890 – July 27, 1967) was a Canadian artist most well known for her portraits of First Nations people. She also painted landscapes in oil and watercolour. Her paintings were usually done in vivid colours. Born in Ontario, she moved to Regina in 1913, and began painting Indigenous portraits fifteen years later. Her portraits were completed quickly, usually under one hour. In 1934, she relocated to British Columbia, and continued to paint individuals of that province's aboriginal population, eventually amassing nearly 300 portraits. Thornton was a tireless lecturer and advocate of Indigenous and women's rights. While lecturing, she often appeared dressed in buckskin, and played Indigenous songs that she had recorded. Besides being an author and art critic, she was involved in numerous literary and artistic associations. She hoped to sell her portrait collection to the Government of Canada, and when this wasn't forthcoming, decreed in her will that it be burned. The portraits narrowly escaped that fate due to a technicality. While popular in her lifetime, Thornton was neglected for some time afterwards. A biography of her by Sheryl Salloum was published in 2011. There has been mixed reactions to her work and persona among First Nations peoples, with some collecting portraits of their ancestors and others regarding Thornton through the lens of cultural appropriation.
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Longman's niece was the noted Canadian portrait and landscaper painter MildredValleyThornton as related on her maternal line. Storey Memorial (1905), Lowell...
1757, having reached legal age, Charles married MildredThornton, daughter of Colonel Francis Thornton and Frances Gregory. They had four children: George...
West Virginia). He was the eldest son of Thornton Augustine Washington (1760–1787) and his first wife Mildred Berry Washington (1760–1785). Washington...
cousin, also named MildredThornton, married Samuel's younger brother Charles. Together, Mildred and Samuel were the parents of: Thornton George Washington...
Augustine Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1694, to Mildred Warner and her husband, Capt. Lawrence Washington, a militia captain and...
2043. In the early 1960s, 30-year-old Iva Kroeger strangled her friend Mildred Arneson, as well as Arneson's ex-husband Jay. Kroeger and her husband,...
ISBN 978-1-59714-033-1. Retrieved March 16, 2013. Starr 2007, p. 17 Hoover, Mildred Brooke; Kyle, Douglas E., eds. (2002). Historic Spots in California. Historic...
end of the pavement and west of Gopher Valley Road, near Deer Creek. Isaac Agee and his wife Cordilla (Thornton) Agee are buried there. The Hussey Cemetery...
was considered a credible suspect in two: the 1967 murder of 18-year-old Mildred May, whose nude and battered body was found along the I-35W near Fort Worth...
(1734–1781) John Augustine Washington (1736–1787) Charles Washington (1738–1799) Mildred Washington (1739-1740) Augustine died in 1743 when son George was 11 years...
January 2024. Thornton 1998, p. 31. Thornton 1998, pp. 29–31. Thornton 1998, pp. 37. Thornton 1998, p. 38. Thornton 1998, p. 39. Thornton 1998, p. 40....
and former police officer Herbert "Truly of The Yard" Truelove (Frank Thornton). The men never seem to grow up, and they develop a unique perspective...
Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) appointed Earhart and Margaret Bartlett Thornton to promote air travel, particularly for women, and Earhart helped set up...
where he married his third wife, Eleanor Stuart Thornton (1806-1888), who was a descendant of Mildred Washington, the aunt of General George Washington...
the time. This theory is dismissed by royal biographers such as Michael Thornton and Hugo Vickers. In an earlier allegation, published by Kitty Kelley in...
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