Nora Frances Elisabeth Collyer
(1898 - 1979) Beaver Hall Group
Previously Sold Works
NORA FRANCES ELISABETH COLLYER
Village on the St. Lawrence River
oil on canvas
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1937 on the stretcher; an unfinished portrait of two girls on the reverse
26.25 x 28.25 ins ( 66.7 x 71.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $20,000.00 - $30,000.00
Price Realized $32,200.00
Sale date: November 23rd 2017
NORA FRANCES ELISABETH COLLYER
Summer Landscape
oil on board
signed lower left
16 x 18 ins ( 40.6 x 45.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $10,000.00 - $15,000.00
Price Realized $18,880.00
Sale date: September 24th 2020
NORA FRANCES ELISABETH COLLYER
Farmstead, Eastern Townships
oil on canvas, laid down on board
signed lower right
22 x 26 ins ( 55.9 x 66 cms )
Auction Estimate: $10,000.00 - $15,000.00
Price Realized $13,800.00
Sale date: November 22nd 2016
NORA FRANCES ELISABETH COLLYER
Frost Village, Eastern Townships
oil on board
signed lower left; signed and titled on the reverse
12 x 14 ins ( 30.5 x 35.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $6,000.00 - $8,000.00
Price Realized $10,350.00
Sale date: November 22nd 2016
NORA FRANCES ELISABETH COLLYER
Indian Church, Tadoussac, Quebec
oil on board
signed lower left; signed, titled and dated April 29, 1947 on the reverse; a sketch of a cottage landscape on the reverse
12 x 14 ins ( 30.5 x 35.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $9,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $10,350.00
Sale date: November 23rd 2017
NORA FRANCES ELISABETH COLLYER
Window, Autumn
oil on board
signed and dated 1974 lower right; signed and titled on the reverse; titled on a gallery label on the reverse
18 x 16 ins ( 45.7 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $9,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $8,400.00
Sale date: January 31st 2023
NORA FRANCES ELISABETH COLLYER
Sixteen Island Lake from Savage’s Mountain
oil on board
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1945 on the reverse
11.75 x 13.75 ins ( 29.8 x 34.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $7,000.00 - $9,000.00
Price Realized $7,800.00
Sale date: March 21st 2023
NORA FRANCES ELISABETH COLLYER
Cacti
double-sided oil on panel
still life composition on the reverse, signed with initials lower left; titled on the gallery label on the reverse; signed with initials and inscribed "C.24" on the reverse
17 x 15.75 in ( 43.2 x 40 cm )
Auction Estimate: $6,000.00 - $8,000.00
Price Realized $5,760.00
Sale date: March 25th 2025
NORA FRANCES ELISABETH COLLYER
Coté Des Neiges
oil on panel
12 x 14 ins ( 30.5 x 35.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $0.00
Price Realized $23,000.00
Sale date: March 18th 2012
NORA FRANCES ELISABETH COLLYER
Looking Towards Murray Bay from Cap à l’Aigle Hill Top (Chickens)
oil on board
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1964 on the reverse
12 x 14 ins ( 30.5 x 35.6 cms )
NORA FRANCES ELISABETH COLLYER
Still Life with Cactus
double-sided oil on board
a second still life of cactus on the reverse, signed lower left
18 x 16 ins ( 45.7 x 40.6 cms )
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Nora Collyer Biography
(1898 - 1979) Beaver Hall Group
Nora Collyer was born in Montreal. She studied at the Art Association of Montreal, one of the few art institutions that admitted female students at the time. The school was directed by RCA president, William Brymner. At the AAM (which later became the Montreal Museum of Fine Art), she received professional instruction from Brymner and landscape artist, Maurice Cullen. In 1921 she joined fellow AAM graduates at their studio at 305 Beaver Hill Hall. This association of artists called themselves the Beaver Hall Group. The three story house offered the artists inexpensive studio space and A large room on the ground floor, which served as their exhibition gallery. Nora shared a studio in fellow AAM colleague, Anne Savage. The group was connected with the Group of Seven through A.Y.Jackson, who was a member of both groups and they were invited to exhibit together. The group had disbanded after only two years, but the women in the group continued to associate together.
In the years that followed, Nora taught drawing at Trafalgar School and at the AAM with Sarah Robertson. She participated in the Spring Exhibitions of the AAM from 1919 to 1955. Her choice of subject matter included portraiture, still lifes and landscapes portrayed in different seasons of the year. She also exhibited with the RCA from 1922 to 1942 and with the Canadian Group of Painters. She held solo exhibitions at the Dominion Gallery (1946) and at the Walter Klinkhoff Gallery (1964). Nora Collyer was a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. The women of the Beaver Hall Group were honoured with an exhibition of their work at the National Gallery of Canada in 1967. Nora Collyer died in Montreal at the age of 81.
Sources:
A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Vol.1, Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks, 1997
Painting Friends, The Beaver Hall Women Painters, Barbara Meadowcroft, Véhicule Press, 1999
