Bobak, Molly (Lamb)


BOBAK, Molly (Lamb), artist (b 25 Feb 1920, Vancouver; d 2 Mar 2014, Fredericton, NB). The daughter of the photographer Harold MORTIMER-LAMB, she grew up in BURNABY and at age 16 entered the Vancouver School of Art (see EMILY CARR INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN) where she studied with Jack SHADBOLT, among other teachers. In Nov 1942 she enlisted in the Canadian Woman's Army Corps and before the war was over became Canada's only official woman war artist. Her diaries and sketches from this period...

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