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{{short description|Canadian painter (1896–1947)}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Prudence Heward
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| death_date = 19 March 1947 (aged 50)
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| nationality =
| movement = [[Expressionism]]; [[abstract art]]; [[Beaver Hall Hill Group]].
| field = painter
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'''Prudence Heward''' (July 2, 1896 – March 19, 1947)<ref name="Ferrari">Ferrari, Prudence. "Prudence Heward: Painting at Home." (2001). In ''Framing Our Past: Canadian Women's History in the Twentieth Century,'' S.A. Cook, L.R. McLean, and K. O'Rourke, eds. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 129-133.</ref> was a
==Biography==
Born '''Efa Prudence Heward''' in [[Montreal]]
During [[World War I]], Heward lived in [[England]] where her brothers served in the [[Canadian Army]] while she served as a volunteer with the [[Red Cross]]. Returning to Canada at war's end, she continued her painting,
Wanting to refine her skills, and drawn to the great gathering of creative genius in the [[Montparnasse Quarter]] of [[Paris, France]], between 1925 and 1926 Prudence Heward lived and painted in Paris. While studying at the [[Académie Colarossi]], she frequented Le Dome Café in Montparnasse, the favorite haunt of [[North America]]n writers and artists and the place where Canadian writer [[Morley Callaghan]] came with his friends [[Ernest Hemingway]] and [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]. In 1929, in Paris, Heward met [[Ontario]] painter [[Isabel McLaughlin]] with whom she became friends<ref name="Ferrari" /> and upon her return to Canada, would join with her and other artists on nature painting trips. In the same year 1929 her career got a major boost when her painting, ''Girl on a Hill'', won the top prize in the [[Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon|Governor General Willingdon]] competition organized by the [[National Gallery of Canada]].<ref>{{Cite book|title = The women of Beaver Hall : Canadian modernist painters|url = https://archive.org/details/womenofbeaverhal00walt|url-access = registration|last = Walters|first = Evelyn|publisher = Dundurn Press|year = 2005|isbn = 9781282810853|location = Toronto|pages = [https://archive.org/details/womenofbeaverhal00walt/page/124 124]}}</ref>
She was invited to exhibit with the [[Group of Seven (artists)|Group of Seven]] and through it became friends with [[A. Y. Jackson]] with whom she would go on sketching excursions along the [[Saint Lawrence River]]. She did a number of landscapes, with a particular attachment for Quebec's [[Eastern Townships]].
She joined the executive committee of "The Atelier: A School of Drawing Painting Sculpture" in 1931.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|url=https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/prudence-heward|title=Prudence Heward: Life & Work|last1=Skelly|first1=Julia
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[[File:Immigrantes - Prudence Heward.jpg|alt= The Immigrants, Prudence Heward, 1929, Private Collection, Toronto|thumb|
Though Heward also painted landscapes and still lifes, she was primarily a painter of human subjects. As Julia Skelly points out in Prudence Heward: Life & Work, Heward preferred the term “figures” to portraits, and most of her figurative paintings are of women who often return the viewer’s gaze, and who are "realistically rendered rather than unrealistically idealized."<ref name=":1">{{cite web | url= http://www.aci-iac.ca/prudence-heward/technique-and-style | title=Prudence Heward: Life & Work | publisher= Art Canada Institute | work=Technique and Style | accessdate=25 November 2015 | author= Skelly, Julia }}</ref> These include [[nudity|nude]] subjects which was sometimes controversial in the 1930s.<ref>{{cite book|title=The women of Beaver Hall Canadian modernist painters|date=2005|publisher=Dundurn Press|isbn=1282810855|location=Toronto [Ont.]|page=17|last1=Walters|first1=Evelyn}}</ref> Art historian [[Charmaine Nelson]] has critically examined Heward’s depictions of black women she painted.<ref name=":0" />▼
▲Though Heward also painted landscapes and still lifes, she was primarily a painter of human subjects. As Julia Skelly points out in ''Prudence Heward: Life & Work'', Heward preferred the term
Her work was influenced by schools of European [[modernism]] and her application of these principles and styles was more than merely formal. They provided her "with a dynamic visual vocabulary for depicting modern Canadian women in both rural and urban contexts."<ref name=":1" />▼
▲Her work was influenced by schools of European [[modernism]] and her application of these principles and styles was more than merely formal. They provided her "with a dynamic visual vocabulary for depicting modern Canadian women in both rural and urban contexts
Today, works by Prudence Heward can be found in several Canadian galleries including the [[Winnipeg Art Gallery]], the [[Montréal Museum of Fine Arts]], the [[Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://collections.mnbaq.org/fr/artiste/600006963|title=Prudence Heward |website=www.collections.mnbaq.org|accessdate=18 January 2020}}</ref> and at the [[National Gallery of Canada]].▼
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==After her death==
In the year after her death in 1947 a memorial touring exhibition with 102 works was shown at the [[National Gallery of Canada]].<ref name=":0" /> In 1996, her cousin, politician [[Heward Grafftey]], wrote "Chapter Four: Prudence Heward" for the book ''Portraits of a Life''. ''By Woman's Hand'' (1994), a National Film Board documentary film by [[Pepita Ferrari]], examines her life and that of two fellow painters, [[Anne Savage (artist)|Anne Savage]] and [[Sarah Robertson (painter)|Sarah Robertson]].
On July 2, 2010, [[Canada Post stamp releases (2010-2014)|Canada Post]] released a commemorative stamp and a souvenir sheet in honour of Heward as part of its Art Canada collection. The two paintings featured were ''At the Theatre'' (1928) and ''Rollande'' (1929).<ref>Canada Post, ''Details/en détail'', vol. 19, no. 3 (July to September 2010), p. 6.</ref>
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In 2021, the [[McMichael Canadian Art Collection]] organized ''Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment'' and included eight of her paintings.
==References==
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== Further reading ==
*Julia Skelly. ''[https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/prudence-heward Prudence Heward: Life & Work]''. Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2015. {{ISBN|9781487100698}}
*{{cite book |last1=Ferrari |first1=Pepita |title="Prudence Heward: Painting at Home". Framing Our Past: Canadian Women's History in the Twentieth Century (eds.) Sharon Anne Cook, Lorna R. McLean, Kate O'Rourke |date=2001 |publisher=McGill Queen's U press |location=Montreal & Kingston |pages=129ff|isbn=9780773521728 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HVoRIKw5pCUC |access-date=23 February 2022}}
==External links==
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*[http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/nameSearch.php?artist=prudence+heward Canadian Women Artists History Initiative]. Artist biographic database entry for Prudence Heward.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180220212317/https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/femmes/030001-1162-e.html Library and Archives Canada]. Themes: Prudence Heward.
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*[http://www.gallery.ca/cybermuse/enthusiast/thirties/gallery_of_e.jsp?iartistid=2427 National Gallery of Canada]. Gallery of paintings by Prudence Heward
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