Figure 1.-- We note one modern artist that has produced several canvases illustrating children playing hockey. William Roy 'Bill' Brownridge specializes in hockey paintuings and has authired four Canadian classic children’s hockey books. Many of his paintingd focus on children’s enjoyment of playing the sport. This one is 'Cmon let's play.'

We know very little about Canadian art at this time. There seem to be very few notable Canadian artists, especially in the 19th century. We have found very few Canadian images of children. We know of very few Canadian artists producing many works depicting children and children's fashions. We notice more artists active in the 20gth century, but we have not yet found works illustrating historical boy's fashions. We note one modern artist that has produced several canvases illustrating children playing hockey. William Roy 'Bill' Brownridge specializes in hockey paintuings and has authired four Canadian classic children’s hockey books. Many of his paintingd focus on children’s enjoyment of playing the sport. The country's small population may be a factor here. Hopefully our Canadian readers familiar with art will provide us some insights.

William Roy 'Bill' Brownridge

We note one modern artist that has produced several canvases illustrating children playing hockey. William Roy 'Bill' Brownridge specializes in hockey paintuings and has authired four Canadian classic children’s hockey books. Many of his paintingd focus on children’s enjoyment of playing the sport. The country's small population may be a factor here.

Elizabeth Forbes (Canada/Englnd, 1859-1912)

Elizabeth Adela Armstrong was borm in Kingston, Canaa West (1859). She began drawing lessons whle still in Canada hich she continued in Englnd. She also studied under William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League of New York. She returned to London, but spent some time in France--Ppont-Aven, Brittany (1882). Here she experimented with plein-air painting whicvh influence her entire body of work. She returned to London (1883). In London, Forbes worked on printmaking and was elected to the Society of Painter Etchers. She established herself as a competent artist (by 1885). She settled in Newlyn. She married fellow artist Stanhope Alexander Forbes. As a joint project, they set up the Newlyn Art School (1889). They offered classes in painting from nature. Art was still as a male profession. And she like othe women at the time had trouble being accepted as a serious porofessionals. She became friendly with James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Walter Sickert, both of whom are said to have influenced her style. She worked in a range of media, including watercolor, pastel, oil painting, and etching, She also dabbled in poetry and wote a children’s book which she illustrated -- King Arthur’s Wood (1904). Forbes exhibited in London at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. She won awards including an 1891 medal for painting at the Paris International Exhibition and an 1893 gold medal in oil painting at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. While born in Canada, her work is almost entirely English. She often included children in her paintings. One of her best known paintings is 'School Is Out' (1889). She painted the scene in Newlyn (1889). It charmingly dispalys the end of the school day of children is a rural school.

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