2nd of
3 works found
- Artist
- Tait, Sylvia
- Title
- Descending Day
- Date
- 2001
- Dimensions
- 50.5cm height x 63cm width
- Type
- painting
- Accession Number
- 2004.1.1
- Collection
- Permanent Collection
Gift of the artist
Sylvia Tait grew up in Montreal and studied for four years at the prestigious Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School under Arthur Lismer, Jacques de Tonnancoeur, and Eldon Grier. She received three scholarships, the Top Student Award and an Honours Diploma. Since the 1950s she has exhibited across Canada, Mexico, and Ecuador in solo and group shows.
Her paintings are in corporate and public collections in Europe, USA, Canada, South America and Hong Kong. Selected collections include Musée de l'Art Contemporaine,Québec; Vancouver Art Gallery, BC; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba; the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and the Canada Council Art Bank.