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Unity Bainbridge
Born(1916-07-06)July 6, 1916
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
DiedNovember 30, 2017(2017-11-30) (aged 101)
West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
NationalityCanadian
EducationVancouver School of Art 1932-1936
Known forDrawing, painting, writing
MovementModernism, Contemporary Realism
AwardsOrder of British Columbia 1993

Unity Bainbridge OBC (July 6, 1916 – November 30, 2017) was a Canadian artist and writer of poetry inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and its landscape.

Personal life

Unity Bainbridge was born in Victoria, British Columbia on July 6, 1916.[1] She was also known as Unity Bainbridge Brewster.[2]

Her parents were George P. and Deborah Bainbridge. Unity was the eldest of three sisters, her two younger sisters are Ursula Ridgeway (deceased) and Monica Resnick. She has one daughter, Deborah Ryan.[3]

Bainbridge married in 1946, moved to San Francisco, CA for five years, then moved back to British Columbia.[4]

Unity was a long time resident of West Vancouver, BC. She died there on November 30, 2017 at the age of 101.[3]

Education

Bainbridge studied in Vancouver at the then newly formed Vancouver School of Art from 1932-1936 under Grace Melvin and Charles H. Scott.[5]

Career

Bainbridge, in the early 1930s trekked through a vast area of British Columbia's remote wilderness. She preferred to work alone and shunned most art groups. She was invited to join the Canadian Portrait Academy as a Founding Academician, but declined this offer.[why?][citation needed]

She met Lawren Harris in Vancouver in the 1930s and A.Y. Jackson in Toronto.[6] In 1976-77 she compiled her research and images from repeated trips to communities between Pemberton and Lillooet. The works comprise Songs of Seton and Lullaby of Lillooet, two small books Bainbridge published in limited editions."[5]

Exhibitions

  • Royal Canadian Academy Exhibition, 1938[5]
  • Seymour Art Gallery, July 2 - August 15, 1986[7]
  • Seymour Art Gallery, October 25 - November, 1989[7]
  • Seymour Art Gallery, 1990[7]
  • Heffel Gallery, Early British Columbian Woman Artists, June 1995.[5]
  • West Vancouver Museum and Archives, Generations: Five Decades of Art in West Vancouver, 1999.[8]
  • Ferry Building Gallery, West Vancouver, BC. Beauty is all there is: Unity Bainbridge - A Retrospective, Oct 24, 2017 to Nov 5, 2017.[9]

Collections

  • Buckingham Palace[6]
  • Canada House, London[6]
  • Imperial War Museum[3]
  • Diefenbaker Museum[3]
  • Vancouver Art Gallery[3]

Awards

Bainbridge received the Order of British Columbia in 1993.[10]

Publications

Artists' Books

  • Songs of Seton (1975–76)
  • Lullaby of Lillooet (1977)

Group Exhibition Catalogue

  • Seymour Art Gallery: A North Shore Beginning (1990)

References

  1. ^ Carolan, Trevor (June 25, 2007). "A Portrait of North Shore Painter Unity Bainbridge". Vancouver Art Scene. Vancouver Art Scene. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
  2. ^ "Unity Bainbridge BREWSTER Obituary". The Vancouver Sun. December 9, 2017. Retrieved December 26, 2017. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  3. ^ a b c d e "Unity Bainbridge In Memoriam". Emily Carr University of Art + Design. December 15, 2017. Retrieved December 26, 2017. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  4. ^ Bengtson, Ben (December 15, 2017). "Artist leaves legacy of painting from real life". North Shore News. Retrieved December 26, 2017. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  5. ^ a b c d Clark, Michael (1996). "Unity Bainbridge: Vancouver Artist". Visions in the making (the official publication of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design). 2 (2). Vancouver, British Columbia: Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design: 7.
  6. ^ a b c Jacob, Evelyn (November 25, 1992). "The right stuff: WV painter Unity Bainbridge". NOW Weekly Dining and Entertainment Section. North Shore News. North Vancouver, British Columbia. pp. 25, 35, 48.
  7. ^ a b c Seymour Art Gallery: A North Shore Beginning. North Vancouver, British Columbia: Seymour Art Gallery. 1990. p. 23.
  8. ^ "Straight Choices". Georgia Straight. Vancouver, B.C. September 2, 1999. p. 6.
  9. ^ "Beauty is all there is: Unity Bainbridge - A Retrospective". gallerieswest. Retrieved December 26, 2017. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  10. ^ Province of British Columbia (1993). "O.B.C. Biography - Unity Bainbridge". protocol.gov.bc.ca.



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