Efa
Prudence
(Prudence)
Heward
Born in Montréal, Québec, Canada
Ancestors 
Daughter of Arthur Richard Graves Heward
and Sarah Efa (Jones) Heward
Sister of
Chilion Graves Heward, Dorothy Burton (Heward) Morrow, Gladys Strachan Heward, Barbara Meredith Heward, Ross Wood Heward, Honor Robinson (Heward) Grafftey and Arthur Brian Augustus Heward
Died
at age 50
in Los Angeles, California, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 6 Mar 2017
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Biography
Prudence Heward was a Canadian painter associated with the Beaver Hall Group. She was a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters and Contemporary Arts Society, and a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.[1]
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| Prudence, 1898 |
Heward was the sixth of the eight children of barrister Arthur Heward and his wife Sarah Jones.[2] She grew up in a large house on University Street in Montreal and spent summers at the family's summer home, Fernwood, near Brockville, Ontario.[3] She began taking art lessons at the age of twelve and soon began painting at the Art Association of Montreal.[4] Tragedy struck when Heward was sixteen. Her father died on May 16, 1912, followed shortly afterward by her sister Dorothy, who died in childbirth. Another sister, Barbara, died that fall.[5]
In 1915 Heward's brothers, Chilion and Ross, enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force and were sent overseas. Heward, her mother and sister Honor volunteered with the Red Cross and stayed in England for the duration of the war.[6]
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| Photograph of "Immigrants" |
After her return to Montreal in 1919, Heward began painting again. She studied at the Art Association with William Brymner and Randolph Hewton and began exhibiting her work. In 1925 she studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi. She won the first Willingdon Prize in 1929, and her paintings began to be selected for numerous international exhibitions.[7]
Heward died in Los Angeles in 1947 while being treated for the asthma that had plagued her throughout her life.
Sources
- ↑ National Gallery of Canada
- ↑ "Recensement du Canada de 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBH-5CVZ : 19 March 2015), G* Prudence Heward in entry for Arthur M G Heward, 1911; citing Census, Montréal St. Antoine Sub-Districts 1-47, Quebec, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 2,418,560.
- ↑ Art Canada Institute, Prudence Heward
- ↑ National Gallery of Canada
- ↑ Art Canada Institute, Prudence Heward
- ↑ Art Canada Institute, Prudence Heward
- ↑ National Gallery of Canada
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