Lilias Torrance Newton: Canadian Portraits

Lilias Torrance Newton (1896-1980) was a Canadian painter specializing in portraiture. Her career overlapped those of the Group of Seven, and some of them even sat for her.

Biographical information on the Internet is sketchy, but her Wikipedia entry contains the basics.

Here style is the slightly simplified naturalism favored by some artists in the 1920s and 1930s who either felt they had to adopt a little modernism for commercial reasons or maybe simply liked that particular look. Below are some of her portraits.

Gallery

Self-Portrait - c.1934

Elise Kingman - 1930

Louis Muhlstock - c.1937

Ethel Southam (Mrs F.H. Toller)

Lawren Harris - 1938
Harris was a leader of the famous (in Canada but, alas, not elsewhere) Group of Seven.

Edwin Holgate
Holgate became of Group of Seven member not long before it disbanded.

Frances Holgate
I have no documentation, but assume for now that this portrait is of Holgate's wife.