Ada Gladys Killins

Ada Gladys Killins (1901 – 1963) was a Canadian artist and educator.

The daughter of Robert Killins and Rachel Swick, she was born in Castor township, Lincoln County, Ontario.[1][2] She attended teacher's college and began teaching art at Memorial School in Niagara Falls in 1924. For a number of years, she took art classes in summer at the Ontario College of Art. She also took private lessons with Franz Johnston and later took summer classes with Carl Schaefer on Lake Couchiching between 1935 and 1938. In 1947, she retired from teaching to paint full-time, moving into a cabin near Orangeville.[1][3]

Killins was a member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour and exhibited with them regularly. In 1939, her work was shown at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto and one of her paintings was included in the Canadian pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. In 1942, fifteen of her paintings were included in the exhibition "Four Canadian Painters" at the Art Gallery of Ontario.[4] She is best-known for her landscapes in watercolour.[1][3]

She died at Castleton, Ontario in 1963.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c Cook, Sharon Anne (2001). "Ada Gladys Killins: Sacrificing for Art's Sake". Framing Our Past: Constructing Canadian Women's History in the Twentieth Century. pp. 41–44. ISBN 0773569111.
  2. ^ "Ada Gladys Killins". Ancestry. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  3. ^ a b c "Killins, Ada Gladys". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative.
  4. ^ McKenzie, Karen; Pfaff, Larry (1980). "The Art Gallery of Ontario Sixty Years of Exhibitions, 1906-1966". RACAR: revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review. 7 (1/2): 62–91. ISSN 0315-9906. JSTOR 42629989 – via JSTOR.