Kathleen Daly Pepper
| Kathleen Frances Daly | |
|---|---|
| Born |
28 May 1898 Napanee, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | 31 August 1994 (aged 96) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Painter |
| Known for | Depictions of First Nations people |
Kathleen Frances Daly (or Kathleen Daly Pepper; 28 May 1898 – 31 August 1994) was a Canadian painter. She is known for her sensitive depictions of First Nations and Inuit people of the north of Canada.
Kathleen Frances Daly was born in Napanee, Ontario, on 28 May 1898. She came from an prosperous family. Her parents were Denis Daly and Mary (Bennett) Daly. She attended Havergal College, Toronto, a girls boarding school. She was admitted to the University of Toronto in 1920. She studied at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto (1920–24), where her instructors included John William Beatty, George Agnew Reid, Arthur Lismer and J. E. H. MacDonald. She went to the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris (1924–25), took private lessons in wood engraving from René Pottier in Paris, and studied at the Parsons School of Design, New York (1926). Between 1924 and 1930 she made a sketching trip to Europe each year. She visited the Basque Country, Italy and France.
Kathleen Daly met George Pepper (1903–1962) while they were both studying at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. They married in 1929. At first they were based in Ottawa. The Peppers traveled to the north shore of Lake Superior, then to Charlevoix County in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec in 1930. In 1931 they visited Nova Scotia and the Gaspé, and in 1932 returned to Quebec. In 1932 George Pepper was made a member of the staff of the Ontario College of Art, and the Peppers moved to Toronto. In 1933 they built a log studio in Charlevoix County, where Kathleen Daly painted French-Canadian genre scenes and landscapes. Their cabin was in the village of Saint-Urbain, where they were great friends of Alphonse and Madame l'Abbé, an extremely outgoing and hospitable family. Other artists would come to stay at the l'Abbé farmhouse.
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