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Prudence Heward

Personal Details Name Prudence Heward Place of birth Canada Date of Birth July 2, 1896 Date of Death March 19, 1947 Field Painting Nationality Canadian Movement Canadian painter

Career:

   Wanting to improve her skills, and drawn to the great meeting 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 American writers and artists and the place where Canadian writer Morley Callaghan came with his friends Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

   Works Of Prudence Heward:

   While in Paris, Heward met Ontario painter Isabel McLaughlin with whom she became friends and would later join with her and other artists on nature painting trips. In 1929 her career got a major boost when her painting, Girl on a Hill, won the top prize in the Governor General Willingdon competition organized by the National Gallery of Canada.