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Painter, Porträtmaler, b. 1873 - d. 1954

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  • Mary Riter Hamilton (1867-1954), BOAT HOUSE, CA. 1912
    Mar. 27, 2025

    Mary Riter Hamilton (1867-1954), BOAT HOUSE, CA. 1912

    Est: $800 - $1,200

    Mary Riter Hamilton (1867-1954), Canadian BOAT HOUSE, CA. 1912 oil on board signed lower left; titled verso 10.5 x 8.5 in — 26.7 x 21.6 cm Estimate: $800—1,200 CAD

    Waddington's
  • MARY RITER HAMILTON (CANADIAN, 1867-1954), UNTITLED (EVENING - VENICE)
    Jul. 11, 2024

    MARY RITER HAMILTON (CANADIAN, 1867-1954), UNTITLED (EVENING - VENICE)

    Est: $350 - $450

    MARY RITER HAMILTON (CANADIAN, 1867-1954) UNTITLED (EVENING - VENICE) OIL ON CARD; SIGNED LOWER RIGHT Estimate: $350—450 CAD

    Waddington's
  • Painting, Mary Riter Hamilton
    Nov. 20, 2022

    Painting, Mary Riter Hamilton

    Est: $8,000 - $12,000

    Mary Riter Hamilton (Canadian, 1873-1954), "In the Garden," 1912, oil on canvas, signed, titled and dated verso, canvas: 21.5"h x 18"w, overall (with period Newcomb Macklin frame): 27.25"h x 23.5"w. Note: This painting was featured in the artist's "Exhibition of Paintings, Water-Colors, Pastels and Drawings" from 1912 (catalogue no. 6).

    Clars Auctions
  • Mary Riter Hamilton CANADIAN 1873-1954 - Arras 1919
    May. 20, 2019

    Mary Riter Hamilton CANADIAN 1873-1954 - Arras 1919

    Est: R70,000 - R100,000

    Mary Riter Hamilton CANADIAN 1873-1954 Arras 1919 signed, dated 1919 and inscribed with the title oil on canvas laid down on board 26 by 33,5cm PROVENANCE: Acquired by Dr Anthony Scott Parker of Severn Lodge, Alvington, Gloucestershire, in the 1920s and thence by descent. Mary Riter Hamilton was a fearless, trailblazing artist who left a remarkable and moving wartime record for her Canadian countrymen. After early instruction in Toronto, and leading a china-painting studio in Winnipeg after the death of her husband in 1893, Hamilton spent the first years of the twentieth century training in Europe, initially in Berlin, and then at the Acadé©mie Vitti in Paris. She returned to Canada in 1911, and her reputation grew steadily through successful exhibitions in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg and Calgary. When war broke out in 1914, Hamilton was determined to play her part. She urged the Canadian War Memorials Fund to send her to Europe as an official war artist, but was repeatedly denied the opportunity: men could paint on the frontlines, but women artists were confined to the home front. After the Armistice, however, Hamilton received a commission from the Amputation Club of British Columbia to paint the devastating aftermath of the war for their veterans’ magazine, The Gold Stripe. Painting en plein air under the harshest conditions, quickly and on a small scale in order keep mobile, and in most cases well before any reconstruction had begun, she produced a visceral and harrowing archive of a decimated and sorrowful landscape. For three years she painted prolifically, her evocative smears of paint capturing scenes of churned up earth, makeshift cemeteries, ghostly and still-smoking forests, cold, stagnant puddles, teetering church ruins, brooding skies, and wet, slow-moving crowds. But she also painted colourful moments of hope and renewal: a springtime garden; a lovingly placed wreath; crisp, proud flags fluttering in the wind. The present Lot shows the annihilated town of Arras in northern France, shortly after the fighting ended. Barbed wire collects in the foreground, while the saddest horizon is defined by the ruined silhouette of the Hotel de Ville. Hamilton’s three years on the battlefields left her drained and dispirited. She never painted seriously again, although the collection she donated to the National Archives of Canada remains one of the most poignant, sweeping, selfless and exhilarating wartime memorials from the period.

    Strauss & Co
  • MARY RITER HAMILTON, British Columbia, 1873-1954, Portrait of a young woman seated on a porch., Oil on canvas, 21.5" x 18". Framed 2...
    Apr. 06, 2019

    MARY RITER HAMILTON, British Columbia, 1873-1954, Portrait of a young woman seated on a porch., Oil on canvas, 21.5" x 18". Framed 2...

    Est: $1,200 - $1,800

    MARY RITER HAMILTON British Columbia, 1873-1954 Portrait of a young woman seated on a porch. Signed lower right "Mary R. Hamilton". Oil on canvas, 21.5" x 18". Framed 29" x 25".

    Eldred's
  • MARY RITER HAMILTON (CANADIAN, 1873-1954), DUTCH WOMAN KNITTING, WATERCOLOUR; SIGNED AND DATED 1904 LOWER LEFT (Sight, 15.5” x 13”)
    Apr. 28, 2016

    MARY RITER HAMILTON (CANADIAN, 1873-1954), DUTCH WOMAN KNITTING, WATERCOLOUR; SIGNED AND DATED 1904 LOWER LEFT (Sight, 15.5” x 13”)

    Est: -

    MARY RITER HAMILTON (CANADIAN, 1873-1954) DUTCH WOMAN KNITTINGWATERCOLOUR; SIGNED AND DATED 1904 LOWER LEFT (Sight, 15.5” x 13”)Estimate: $300—400

    Waddington's
  • Artist: CANADIAN 19/20 CENTURY SCHOOL Title:
    Nov. 04, 2012

    Artist: CANADIAN 19/20 CENTURY SCHOOL Title:

    Est: $1,500 - $2,000

    Artist: CANADIAN 19/20 CENTURY SCHOOL Title: Untitled - Children and Rabbits Media: oil on canvas 36 x 24 in. / 91 x 61 cm. Notes: signed with initials 'M. R. ...' lower left; framed, canvas relined Reference: possibly Mary Riter Hamilton [1873-1954]

    Levis Auction
  • Mary Ritter Hamilton (Canadian, born circa 1873-1954) Wash day, France, Sketch
    Nov. 29, 2011

    Mary Ritter Hamilton (Canadian, born circa 1873-1954) Wash day, France, Sketch

    Est: $8,000 - $12,000

    Wash day, France (Sketch) signed twice and dated 'Mary R. Hamilton/1912' (lower left and right); titled on a hand written label oil on canvas laid on board 19.7 x 24.8cm (7 3/4 x 9 3/4in).

    Bonhams
  • Mary Ritter Hamilton (Canadian, born circa 1873-1954) Wash day, France, Sketch
    Nov. 29, 2011

    Mary Ritter Hamilton (Canadian, born circa 1873-1954) Wash day, France, Sketch

    Est: £8,000 - £12,000

    Wash day, France (Sketch) signed twice and dated 'Mary R. Hamilton/1912' (lower left and right); titled on a hand written label oil on canvas laid on board 19.7 x 24.8cm (7 3/4 x 9 3/4in).

    Bonhams
  • Mary Ritter Hamilton Canadian (circa 1873-1954)
    Dec. 08, 2010

    Mary Ritter Hamilton Canadian (circa 1873-1954)

    Est: $1,000 - $1,500

    Mary Ritter Hamilton Canadian (circa 1873-1954) THE RUSSIAN STUDENT oil on canvas signed lower right Mary R Hamilton Paris 18 1/4 x 15 in. (46.25 x 38 cm.)

    Maynards Fine Art & Antiques
  • MARY RITER HAMILTON 1873 1954
    Nov. 23, 2010

    MARY RITER HAMILTON 1873 1954

    Est: $20,000 - $25,000

    MARY RITER HAMILTON 1873 – 1954 MARKET SCENE, GIVERNEY [SIC] signed and inscribed lower left Mary Hamilton, Paris; titled and dated '07 by the artist on the reverse oil on canvas 38.1 by 45.7 cm. 15 by 18 in.

    Sotheby's
  • Mary Riter Hamilton 1873 - 1954 Canadian oil on
    Jun. 26, 2008

    Mary Riter Hamilton 1873 - 1954 Canadian oil on

    Est: $600 - $800

    Mary Riter Hamilton 1873 - 1954 Canadian oil on board Trail, Lake Louise 9 1/2 x 6 inches 24.1 x 15.2 centimeters signed and dated 1917 and on verso titled Provenance:Private Collection, Vancouver

    Heffel
  • Mary Riter Hamilton 1873 - 1954 Canadian oil on
    Jun. 26, 2008

    Mary Riter Hamilton 1873 - 1954 Canadian oil on

    Est: $600 - $800

    Mary Riter Hamilton 1873 - 1954 Canadian oil on board Lake Louise 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches 24.1 x 19 centimeters on verso signed and titled Provenance:Private Collection, Vancouver

    Heffel
  • Mary Riter Hamilton 1873 - 1954 Canadian oil on board Opalescent Shoulders
    May. 31, 2008

    Mary Riter Hamilton 1873 - 1954 Canadian oil on board Opalescent Shoulders

    Est: $1,600 - $1,800

    13 x 9 1/4 inches 33 x 23.5 centimeters signed Provenance:Private Collection, Vancouver

    Heffel
  • Mary Riter Hamilton 1873 - 1954 Canadian oil on
    Jul. 28, 2007

    Mary Riter Hamilton 1873 - 1954 Canadian oil on

    Est: $3,000 - $4,000

    Mary Riter Hamilton 1873 - 1954 Canadian oil on canvas The Return Home 31 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches 80.6 x 49.5 centimeters signed and dated 1919 and on verso stamped with the French artist's supplier ""Couleurs-Fines, Paul Foinet Fils, 21 Rue Brea"" Provenance:Private Collection, Vancouver

    Heffel
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