Sydney Strickland Tully

Sydney Strickland Tully
Born (1860-03-10)March 10, 1860
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died July 18, 1911(1911-07-18) (aged 51)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Alma mater Académie Colarossi, Académie Julien, Slade School of Fine Art, Ontario School of Art
Known for painting, drawing
Notable work The Twilight of Life (1894)

Sydney Strickland Tully (1860-1911) was a Canadian academic painter. She is known for her pastel and oil portraits, landscapes and genre pictures, and for her success in a number of academic exhibitions.[1] Tully kept a studio in Toronto from 1888 until her death. Her major works include The Twilight of Life (1894), an oil painting in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Biography

Sydney Strickland Tully was born and raised in Toronto, the child of Maria Strickland and Kivas Tully. Maria Strickland was a niece of Susanna Moodie; Tully's father Kivas Tully was a prominent architect.[1] Tully's early studies took place at the Central Ontario School of Art (later OCAD University), Toronto, under William Cruikshank. In 1884 she went to London to continue her education at the Slade School of Art, where she studied under Alphonse Legros. Further studies took place in Paris at the Académie Julien (under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Tony Robert-Fleury, ) and the Académie Colarossi (under Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois). Later studies took place at the Long Island Art School under William Merritt Chase.[2] Sydney Strickland Tully died on July 18, 1911 in Toronto, of pernicious anemia.[3][4]

Career

Tully kept a studio in Toronto (from 1888), where she taught regular classes, and participated steadily in the artistic life of the city.[5][6] She also travelled internationally to paint and to participate in exhibitions, including sojourns in London (1895), and in Holland and Jersey (1906–08).

Legacy

Tully bequeathed her award-winning painting, The Twilight of Life, to the Art Gallery of Ontario. It became the first painting by a Canadian artist acquired by the gallery (1911). A second work, Evening on the Vaal, was acquired by the AGO by subscription in 1912.

Art market

In recent years Tully's work has appeared occasionally at auction, reaching modest prices.[7]

Awards

For her painting The Twilight of Life, Tully won an honorable mention at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo and a bronze medal at the Saint Louis Exposition.[1] She was elected a member of the Ontario Society of Artists in 1889, and became an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts the same year.[8]

Major collections

Tully's work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario,[9] National Gallery of Canada,[10] and Museum London.[11]

Major exhibitions

Tully exhibited regularly with the Ontario Society of Artists and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. She participated in numerous other exhibitions, including the Art Association of Montreal (precursor to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts), 1892-1909; the Toronto Industrial Exhibition (precursor to the Canadian National Exhibition, 1890-1910; the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago; the Salon (Paris), 1888; and the Royal Academy of Arts, 1896-97.

Works

References

  1. 1 2 3 Farr, Dorothy; Luckyj, Natalie (1976). From Women's Eyes: Women Painters in Canada. Kingston, Ontario: Agnes Etherington Art Centre. p. 24.
  2. ↑ "Canadian Women Artists History Initiative: Artist Database: Tully, Sydney Strickland". Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "Miss Sydney Tully: Artist is dead, a victim of pernicious anemia". Globe (Toronto). 19 July 1911.
  4. ↑ "Canadian Artist Dead". The Winnipeg Tribune. 20 July 1911. p. 8. Retrieved 13 September 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Art Notes". The Week (Toronto). 18 January 1895.
  6. ↑ "In the Studio of One of Canada's Best Known Artists". Sunday World (Toronto). 2 April 1911.
  7. ↑ Westbridge, Anthony R. (2013). Canadian Art Sales Index. Vancouver: Westbridge.
  8. ↑ Sydney Strickland Tully, A.R.C.A., memorial exhibition of paintings and drawings: held in the Art Metropole Galleries. Toronto: s.n. 1911.
  9. ↑ "Art as Therapy: Love". Art Gallery of Ontario.
  10. ↑ "S. Strickland Tully". National Gallery of Canada.
  11. ↑ "Collections". Museum London.
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