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Born '''Efa Prudence Heward''' in [[Montreal]], Heward was the sixth of eight children and was educated at private schools. She showed an interest in art at a young age, possibly encouraged by her artistically-inclined mother and sister Dorothy, and started drawing lessons at age twelve at the [[Art Association of Montreal]] school with [[William Brymner]] and [[Maurice Galbraith Cullen|Maurice Cullen]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=2427|title=National Gallery of Canada}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/femmes/030001-1162-e.html |title=Library and Archives Canada |access-date=2014-02-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180220212317/https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/femmes/030001-1162-e.html |archive-date=2018-02-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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 studying at the [[Art Association of Montreal]] as a student in the advanced class. In 1924, she won the Women's Art Society Prize for painting and her
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>
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