{{Short description|New Zealand artist and art teacher}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2016}} '''Ivy Margaret Copeland''' (15 June 1888 – 28 August 1961) was a New Zealand artist and arts teacher.
==Early life and education== Born in Auckland on 15 June 1888,<ref name="DNZB Copeland">{{DNZB|title=Ivy Margaret Copeland|first= Penelope|last= Jackson|id=5c33|accessdate=23 April 2017}}</ref> Copeland began studying with C. F. Goldie when she was 10 years old,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fernergalleries.co.nz/default,3784.sm|title=Ivy Copeland|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|accessdate=5 March 2016}}</ref> and later studied with the English artist Dennis Seaward in Whanganui.<ref name="DNZB Copeland" /> She went on to study at the Elam School of Fine Arts, in Auckland.<ref name="DNZB Copeland" />
==Teaching career== In 1933 she moved to the South Island and taught art, first at Canterbury College, and then from 1935 at Dunedin Training College.<ref>{{Cite Q|Q139922395}}</ref>{{Reference page|page=23}} After retiring from teaching in 1940, she returned to Auckland and painted full time. In November 1951 she exhibited 96 works at the Auckland Society of Arts (ASA).<ref name="DNZB Copeland" />
==Artistic career== Copeland painted traditional subject matter, taking a particular interest in still life, particularly the study of flowers. Copeland also painted landscapes and in 1946 was awarded the Bledisloe Medal for her oil painting ''Back of Beyond''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artwork/1581/the-back-of-beyond|title=The Back of beyond|website=Auckland Art Gallery|accessdate=5 March 2016}}</ref> Copeland is best remembered for her portrait paintings, she had a particular interest in Māori subjects.<ref name="DNZB Copeland" />
In 1940 her landscape painting ''Winter sunshine, Heathcote, Christchurch'' was included in the National Centennial Exhibition of New Zealand Art. Two of her works were included in the ASA exhibition ''New Zealand Women Painters 1845–1968.'' Most recently she was featured in the 1993 exhibition ''White Camelias''.<ref name="DNZB Copeland" />
Copeland died in Auckland on 28 August 1961. In her will she left her paintings to the ASA to raise funds to establish the Ivy Copeland award for portraiture, awarded to a tertiary student biannually.<ref name="DNZB Copeland" />
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