Percival Ritchie nee MacKenzie was born on July 9, 1917 at Pointe-au-Pic in Quebec’s Charlevoix region when the family was on vacation. At school (The Study) in Montreal, her art teacher for nine years was Ethel Seath (one of the Beaver Hall Group of painters). Percival left for Paris in 1936 where she studied academic drawing at Atelier Miguet. In 1938-1940 she attended the Art School at the Art Association of Montreal, her teachers Lillias Torrance Newton, Goodridge Roberts, Edwin Holgate and Will Ogilvie. Later in the 1940s Percival studied with Jacques de Tonnancour and Arthur Lismer, and in 1953-1955 with Gisella Lamprecht.
OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday January 8, 2011 2 – 4 pm
At 758 Humboldt Street (beside the Marriott)
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