{{Short description|Canadian artist (1890–1986)}} {{Use dmy dates|date= September 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Edith Grace Coombs | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Edith Grace Coombs | birth_date = {{birth date text|1890}} | birth_place = Hamilton | death_date = 1986 | death_place = | nationality = | spouse = James Sharp Lawson (m. 1942) | education = | awards = | known_for = artist, educator }}
'''Edith Grace Coombs''' (1890–1986) was a Canadian artist and educator.
== Career == Coombs was born in Hamilton and then moved with her family to St. Catharines. She studied painting in Gananoque and then studied at the Ontario College of Art from 1913 to 1918. Coombs became an assistant instructor at the College. She continued her studies at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts. She taught art at Edgehill College in Windsor, Nova Scotia, at Havergal College in Toronto from 1919 to 1921 and at the Ontario College of Art from 1921 to 1956.<ref name=cwahi/><ref name=chin/>
She designed stained glass windows for a church in Guelph. She illustrated several books including ''The Rambles of a Canadian Naturalist'' by T.S. Woods and ''The Brave Little People'' by Dorothy Campbell.<ref name=cwahi/>
Coombs was a member of the Ontario Society of Artists, of the Canadian Society of Graphic Art, of the Federation of Canadian Artists, of the Three Arts Club of New York, of the Heliconian Club and of the Lyceum Women's Art Association. She took part in exhibitions with the Ontario Society of Artists, with the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, at the National Gallery of Canada, at the Canadian National Exhibition and with the Art Association of Montreal, among others.<ref name=cwahi/> She produced works in oil, watercolour, pastel, charcoal, pencil and ink.<ref name=chin>{{cite web |url=http://www.museevirtuel.ca/edu/ViewLoitDa.do?method=preview&lang=EN&id=13673 |title=Edith Grace Coombs |work=Canadian Landscape Painters (1860 – 1940) |publisher=Canadian Heritage Information Network}}</ref> Her art is included in the collections of the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Macdonald-Stewart Art Centre and the University of Guelph.<ref name=cwahi>{{cite web |url=http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=22 |title=Coombs, Edith Grace |work=Canadian Women Artists History Initiative}}</ref>
In 1942, she married James Sharp Lawson.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.heffel.com/online/Details_E.aspx?ID=69219 |title=Edith Grace Coombs |publisher=Heffel}}</ref>
Coombs died in St. Catharines in 1986.<ref name=cwahi/>
== Archives == There is a Edith Grace Coombs fonds at Library and Archives Canada. The archival reference number is R12549.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Edith Grace Coombs fonds description at Library and Archives Canada|url=https://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&rec_nbr=3822545&lang=eng&rec_nbr_list=3822545|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=July 31, 2020|website=}}</ref> The fonds covers the date rage ca. 1839 to 2005. It contains 0.58 meters of textual records in addition to a number of media records (including watercolours and drawings). The records relate to the following series': personal material; art records; professional records; publicity and promotional material; resource and reference material; and, photographic records.
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