| 词条 | Phoebe Amelia Watson |
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| name = Phoebe Amelia Watson | image = Phoebe Amelia Watson 1885.jpg | alt = | caption = Phoebe Amelia Watson in 1885 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1858|06|01|df=y}} | birth_place = Doon, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada | death_date = {{Death date and age|1947|10|22|1858|06|01|df=y}} | death_place = Kitchener, Ontario, Canada | nationality = Canadian | other_names = | occupation = Painter | known_for = }} Phoebe Amelia Watson (1 June 1858 – 22 October 1947) was a Canadian painter and curator. She worked in painted ceramics, watercolor and oils. She was the sister of Homer Watson, the well-known landscape artist, and devoted much of her life to promoting her brother's work, including her role as the curator of the Homer Watson Art Gallery at Doon.[1] LifePhoebe Amelia Watson was born on 1 June 1858 in the village of Doon, now part of the city of Kitchener, Ontario. Her parents, Ransford Watson (1824–1861) and Susannah Mohr, had married on 3 October 1852.{{sfn|Phoebe Amelia Watson, WatGen}} They owned a mill. Phoebe Amelia Watson belonged to the Christadelphians.{{sfn|Phoebe Amelia Watson, WatGen}} Her brother was Homer Watson (1855–1936), who became a celebrated artist.{{sfn|Phoebe Amelia Watson, CMH}} She left school while she was in her teens to help support her widowed mother and her siblings so her brother could devote himself to his art.{{sfn|Russell|2000|p=53}} It was said that "Miss Watson throughout her life has preferred rather than to put forward her own undoubted attainments, to base her chief claim to fame on her relationship with the painter of Doon, who from her childhood days loomed on her horizon a genius."{{sfn|Russell|2000|p=56}} Watson painted china, and also painted landscapes and portraits in watercolor and oil.{{sfn|Phoebe Amelia Watson, CMH}} In 1896, the Women's Art Association of Canada (WAAC) decided to commission a Canadian State Dinner Service to be painted on china by members of the association.{{sfn|Lerner|Williamson|1991|p=271}} The chosen artists included Watson, Lily Osman Adams (1865–1945) and Alice Egan.{{sfn|The Artists, Canadian Museum of History}} Watson painted twelve of the soup plates.{{sfn|Phoebe Amelia Watson, CMH}} Among Watson's portraits are six of mayors of Waterloo, Ontario, and two of Queen Victoria. Her work was exhibited by the Ontario Society of Artists and the Women's Art Association of Canada.{{sfn|Phoebe Amelia Watson, CMH}} Watson moved into her brother Homer's house after his wife Roxanna died in 1918.{{sfn|Homer Watson House & Gallery}} She became a curator of the Homer Watson Art Gallery in Doon, and held this post until her death on 22 October 1947. She never married.{{sfn|Phoebe Amelia Watson, WatGen}} She was buried in the Kinzie Cemetery, Kitchener. As of 2004, the Homer Watson house was an art school and a small gallery with four rooms that feature the work of Homer Watson and other artists.{{sfn|Homer Watson House and Gallery, Insider}} References1. ^{{Cite news|url=|title=Phoebe Watson: Curator of Art Gallery Was Prominent Painter|last=|first=|date=October 23, 1947|work=The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}} Sources{{refbegin}}
|title=Homer Watson 1855 – 1936|publisher=Homer Watson House & Gallery|accessdate=2014-07-15}}
|title=Homer Watson House and Gallery|work=An Insider's Guide to Waterloo Region|accessdate=2014-07-15}}
|last1=Lerner|first1=Loren R.|last2=Williamson|first2=Mary F.|title=Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gquqnLOBH9gC&pg=PA271|accessdate=2014-07-13 |date=1991-01-01|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-5856-0}}
|title=Phoebe Amelia Watson|publisher=Canadian Museum of History|accessdate=2014-07-15}}
|title=Phoebe Amelia Watson |year=2014|work=Waterloo Region Generations|accessdate=2014-07-15}}
|last=Russell|first=Ruth Weber|title=Women of Waterloo County|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z9kRAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=2014-07-15 |year=2000|publisher=Natural Heritage/Natural History, Incorporated|isbn=978-1-896219-72-1}}
|title=The Artists|publisher=Canadian Museum of History|accessdate=2014-07-13}}{{refend}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Watson, Phoebe Amelia}} 6 : 1858 births|1947 deaths|19th-century Canadian painters|20th-century Canadian painters|Artists from Ontario|People from Kitchener, Ontario |
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