Estelle Muriel Kerr
(1879 - 1971)
Previously Sold Works
ESTELLE MURIEL KERR
Two Young Ladies
oil on canvas
signed lower right
18 x 21.25 ins ( 45.7 x 54 cms )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $5,040.00
Sale date: February 1st 2022
ESTELLE MURIEL KERR
Woman in the Surf
oil on board
signed lower left
10 x 14 ins ( 25.4 x 35.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Price Realized $2,160.00
Sale date: March 22nd 2022
ESTELLE MURIEL KERR
The Patchwork Quilt
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1916 lower right
18 x 22 ins ( 45.7 x 55.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $354.00
Sale date: December 12th 2019
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E.M. Kerr Biography
(1879 - 1971)
Estelle Muriel Kerr was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1879. In Toronto she studied with Mary Ella Dignam and Laura Muntz Lyall. She studied at The New York Art Students League (NYASL) for about two years from 1901. She also spent two years at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. During the summers she sketched in Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Around 1913 Kerr shared a studio in Toronto with Dorothy Stevens. In World War I (1914-1918) she drove an ambulance in France. She became well known as an art critic and a painter of children, and also painted landscapes and figure studies. She also was an art journalist, and a critic, as well as illustrating and writing several books. Kerr was among the founding members of the Graphics Art Club and the Heliconian Club. Kerr died in 1971.