Fonds BCHS1097 - Nina May Pickel Owens Fonds

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Nina May Pickel Owens Fonds

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    Nina May Owens

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    CA BCHS BCHS1097

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    • 1876-2001 (Creation)
    • 1869-1959 (Creation)
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      Nina May Pickel Owens

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    45 cm of textual records. - 24 photographs. - Approx. 100 postcards. - 1 Bible.

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    (1869-1959)

    Biographical history

    Nina May Pickel was born in Bolton Centre on June 16, 1869, daughter of Jay Theodore Pickel and Anna Eliza Harvey. After studying to be a teacher at Waterloo Academy, she practiced in Danville and moved to Montebello in 1890, where she met her future husband Owen Ernest Owens. They were married in St. Patrick Anglican Church of East Bolton on September 16, 1891. They had two children (Norreys and Carolyn) while living in Montebello and the family moved to Montreal in 1906, but her husband died of pneumonia in 1910. Nina had begun her painting's career since her younger years so she began attending the Art Association in Montreal in 1909, studying under the direction of William Brymner. She participated in the Spring Exhibit from 1910 to 1927 and also exhibited her paintings at the Royal Canadian Art Exhibition in 1918. She traveled to Europe in 1925 and Great Britain in 1936-1937. She died on June 28, 1959 in Montreal. The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke did a well deserved retrospective exhibit in 1992.

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    The fonds consists of primary and secondary source documents about Nina May Pickel, married to Owen Ernest Owens. The textual records contains personal and family documents but also documents about her professional career as a painter. The photographs include family portraits, some of them being ambrotype and tintype, and postcards.

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    Acc. number: 2022-01.
    Donor: Margaret Owens Estate. Brought by Janet Fraser.

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    • English

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      Creation: December 2022.

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      • English

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