Kathleen Daly is known for her depictions of First Nations and the Inuit in Canada.
23 Facts About Kathleen Daly
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Kathleen Daly's parents were Denis Daly and Mary Daly.
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Kathleen Daly attended Havergal College, Toronto, a girls boarding school.
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Kathleen Daly was admitted to the University of Toronto in 1920.
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Kathleen Daly went to the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, took private lessons in wood engraving from Rene Pottier in Paris, and studied at the Parsons School of Design, New York.
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Kathleen Daly met George Pepper while they were both studying at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris.
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In 1933 they built a log studio in Charlevoix County, where Kathleen Daly painted French-Canadian genre scenes and landscapes.
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In 1952 Kathleen Daly visited Mexico, and later travelled in Spain and Morocco.
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Kathleen Daly continued to travel and paint in Quebec and other regions.
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Kathleen Daly died in Toronto on 21 August 1994, aged 96.
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Kathleen Daly's work has strong line and rhythm, and has been associated with the Group of Seven.
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Kathleen Daly made some of the illustrations for Kingdom of the Saguenay by Marius Barbeau.
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In 1966 Kathleen Daly published a book about James Wilson Morrice.
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In 1975 Kathleen Daly was asked by the National Gallery of Canada to provide an update to her biographical data.
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Kathleen Daly left a bequest of more than forty works by herself and George Pepper to the University of Lethbridge.
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Kathleen Daly's works are held in public gallery collections such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton.
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Between 1930 and 1956 Kathleen Daly's work was shown in all the main exhibitions in Canada, and in London, England.
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Kathleen Daly exhibited at Hart House, the British Empire Exhibition, in the exhibition "A Century of Canadian Art" and at the Tate in London.
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Kathleen Daly often exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and the Ontario Society of Artists.
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Kathleen Daly joined the Canadian Group of Painters in 1934 and the Ontario Society of Artists in 1936.
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Kathleen Daly became an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1937 and an Academician in 1961.
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Kathleen Daly was an executive member of Toronto's Heliconian Club.
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Kathleen Daly's work is known under her birth name, with Kay or K Daly being the signature she applied most often to her art work.