Sarah Robertson
Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson (June 16, 1891 – December 6, 1948)
Sarah Robertson was a Canadian artist. She was born in Montreal on June 16, 1891. She was daughter of John Armour Robertson and Jessie Anne Christie. She had four siblings and she was the eldest from all of them. Her father, John Armour Robertson was from Scotland as a young man and her mother, Jessie Anna was also from Scotland.. During the Sarah’s girlhood the family appears to have been comfortably off.Sarah Robertson was educated in Montreal. She starts doing art studies at the age of nineteen on Wood Scholarship to the Art Association of Montreal. In that association she took instruction about Art Studies from their Teachers.
After began with Art Studies Sarah also took guidance of Randolph Hew ton who had himself been a Wood Scholarship winner. During her last few years at Art Association she joined former student, fellow students and art teachers and artists in forming the loose knit group known as the Beaver Hall Group. The name of the group comes from the street in Montreal's, Beaver Hall Hill. . Member Prudence Heward in the group was the inseparable friends of Sarah Robertson. Both the painters were dedicated to their art and painted often together .Prudence Heward was the one of the most innovative artists working in Canada during her lifetime.. Robertson also exhibited in the United States, in group show at the Yale University art gallery in 1944, the Museum National de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro and the Riverside Museum in New York.
Sarah Robertson's later work is freer in composition and bolder in colors. She loved nature and that love is expressed in her work. Everyone knew that she was not an imitator at all. She left everyone on 06 December 1948 in Montreal at the age of 57 . Her paintings disclosed in all over Canada and rest of the world.
Beaver Hall Group :- It is refers to a Montreal-based group of Canadian painters who met in the late 1910 while studying art at a school run by the Art Association of Montreal. Nora Collyer, Emily Coonan, Prudence Heward, Mabel Lockerby, Mabel May, Kathleen Morris, Lilias Torrance Newton, Sarah Robertson, Anne Savage and Ethel Seath represent the ten women commonly referred to as the Beaver Hall Group or sometimes the Beaver Hall Hill Group or Beaver Hall Women.This association of nineteen Montreal artists, eight of whom were women, had been committed to developing distinctive artists visions, while acknowledging the influence of group of seven and French modernism. In summers Sarah would visits prudence at her family's summer home near Brockville on the St. Lawrence River. From this time Robertson maintained a long correspondence with A.Y.Jackson, who had a great critical judgement. He was a close friend of both Robertson and Prudence. Some of the Robertson’s paintings were inspired by her visits to the Hewards summer home near Brockville. She was the good artist and painter, interested above all in arts and paintings. Some of her landscapes have an affinity with the work of Alfred Sisley and other group of eight people. The Beaver Hall artists held their annual exhibition at their studios on Beaver Hall Hill.One of the striking feature of the new group was that, unliking the group of seven, it included women. Eight of the nineteen members were women . But before the end of the 1921, the Beaver Hall group ran into serious financial difficulties which necessitated relinquishing the studios. The men went their own way, but most of the women remained in close touch with each other.
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