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in Montréal on July 27, 1896, Anne Savage grew up here, in
her family's home in the countryside outside of Montréal
with her sisters and her twin brother Donaldson, pictured below.
The family spent summers together at their Laurentian cottage on
Lake Wonish, where the surrounding landscape was to be a source
of inspiration that Anne returned to again and again throughout
her life as an artist |
"Elmridge Cottage", Savage family home in Dorval, Québec
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Anne
with her sisters and brother, 1913
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Anne
was educated at the Montreal High School, where she had her first
art classes. She went on to study art at the Art Association of
Montreal, now the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, from 1914
to 1918 under William Brymner and Maurice Cullen.
During this period, the tragic death of Anne's twin brother in the
war strengthened her resolve to live a meaningful life. Soon after
she left the Art Association, she became one of the founding members
of the Beaver Hall Hill Group of painters, and that same year, in
1921, she began her teaching career. |
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