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From
childhood Eleanor Milne was encouraged by her mother to draw. Following
her elementary and high school education at Saint Paul's Academy, Westmount,
and the Convent of the Sacred Heart at City House, Montréal and
Ahunsic, Québec, Eleanor Milne enrolled at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts School of Art and
Design in 1944. She studied basic design
with Dr. Arthur Lismer and Gordon
Webber. While continuing her studies at the School of Art and Design,
Milne negotiated a place for herself in McGill's Laboratory of Anatomy
where she had the opportunity to study the human body in the operating room
of Dr. Wilder Penfield, a world-renowned surgeon.
In
1946 Milne studied with sculptor John Farleigh
at the London County Council Milne went on to
do graduate work in 1950 at Syracuse University, New York. She studied with
the Yugoslavian sculptor Ivan Mestrovic. He taught her architectural sculpture,
passing on a love of Medieval art and a simplified Gothic style that would
help her in her future work in the Parliament Buildings. Following graduation
Milne worked as a designer for an Ottawa stained-glass firm. There she
learned how to make stained and painted glass, although she never applied
leading. Constantly pushing herself to learnfrom studying Canadian history as the Dominion Sculptor to her recent interest in natural and mathematical visualizations called fractalsEleanor Milne's decision to pursue knowledge of as many art forms as possible has been a major factor in her success. |
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