Thornton, Mildred Valley

THORNTON, Mildred Valley, artist (b 7 May 1890, Dresden, ON; d 27 July 1967, Vancouver). She studied at the Ontario College of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago and began to paint professionally in the 1910s. Like her better-known contemporary, Emily CARR, she became known for her interest in FIRST NATIONS culture; she completed more than 300 portraits of aboriginal people during her career. In 1913 she moved from Ontario to Regina where she taught at Regina College and became one of...

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