{{Short description|Canadian painter (1906–1993)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Marian Dale Scott | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} | image = Photo of Marian Dale Scott.jpg | caption = | imagesize = | birth_name = Marian Mildred Dale | birth_date = {{birth date|1906|6|26|df=y}} | birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|1993|11|28|1906|6|26|df=y}} | death_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada | other_names = Marian Mildred Dale Scott | nationality = | spouse = {{marriage|F. R. Scott|1928}} | children = Peter Dale Scott | field = Painting landscapes and cityscapes | training = {{ubl|École des beaux-arts de Montréal| Slade School of Art}} | movement = Abstract | works = }} '''Marian Mildred Dale Scott''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA}} ({{née|'''Dale'''}}; 1906–1993) was a pioneering modern Quebec painter.
==Life== She was born Marian Mildred Dale in Montreal<ref name="FromWomensEyes " >{{cite book|last1=Farr|first1=Dorothy|last2=Luckyj|first2=Natalie|title=From Women's Eyes: Women Painters in Canada|date=1975|publisher=Agnes Etherington Art Centre|location=Kingston|pages=56}}</ref> on 26 June 1906.<ref name="Canadian Encyclopedia " >{{cite web | url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/marian-mildred-dale-scott | title=Marian Mildred Dale Scott | the Canadian Encyclopedia }}</ref> She showed talent at an early age: her first works were exhibited in 1918. She attended The Study, a private school for girls, for three years and later became one of the first students at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal in 1924.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Archived copy | url=https://westmounthistorical.org/whawp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020_2_text.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511094410/https://westmounthistorical.org/whawp/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020_2_text.pdf | archive-date=2021-05-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Trépanier|first1=Esther|title=Hommage à Marian Dale Scott, 1906-1993|journal=Annales d'histoire de l'art Canadien|date=1993|volume=15|issue=2|pages=68–78|jstor=42615275}}</ref> After study in London at the Slade School of Art, she returned to her home city, where in 1928 she married the poet and law professor F. R. Scott.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=152|title=Artist Database: SCOTT, Marian Dale|website=Canadian Women Artists History Initiative|accessdate=3 September 2018}}</ref><ref name="gallery.ca">{{cite web|url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/marian-scott |title=Marian Scott|website=National Gallery of Canada|accessdate=3 September 2018}}</ref> They had one son, the diplomat Peter Dale Scott.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/scott/index.htm|title=Peter Dale Scott: Biography|website=Canadian Poetry Online / University of Toronto & University of Toronto Libraries|accessdate=3 September 2018}}</ref>
Scott's career began with landscapes, followed by still life,<ref name="bout " >{{cite book |last1=Boutilier |first1=Alicia |title=article, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Movement |date=2021 |publisher=McMichael Canadian Art Collection |location=Kleinburg, Ontario |page=247|url=https://ago.ent.sirsidynix.net/client/en_GB/agolibrary/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:135543/ada?qu=sarah+milroy&d=ent%3A%2F%2FSD_ILS%2F0%2FSD_ILS%3A135543%7EILS%7E10&te=ILS&lm=EXCLUDERARE |access-date=3 September 2023}}</ref> then by cityscapes which reflected her social concerns. In the 1940s, she sought inspiration in scientific literature. In the 1950s, she was inspired by biblical subjects. She then became an abstract artist.
In the 1930s, Scott was active in anti-fascist movements and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, which her husband had helped found. She also taught art to disadvantaged children as part of an organization set up by her close friend Norman Bethune. As a pacifist, she campaigned for nuclear disarmament in the 1950s and against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Graham|first1=Ron|title=All passion spent: a memoir of Marian Scott a quiet radical whose full career still awaits discovery|journal=Canadian Art|date=Spring 1994|volume=11|issue=1|pages=50–55}}</ref>
Scott was a founding member of the short-lived but influential Contemporary Arts Society of Montreal ("Société d'art contemporain", 1939–1948), and was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1973.<ref name=RCA1880 >{{cite web|title=Members since 1880 |url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |accessdate=11 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526215339/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |archivedate=26 May 2011 }}</ref> She taught at St. George's School, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and at Macdonald College.<ref name="gallery.ca "/>
Scott died on 28 November 1993 in Montreal.<ref name="Canadian Encyclopedia " />
==Awards== * Thomas More Institute, Purchase Award, 1967 <ref name="gallery.ca " /> * Ontario Society of Artists, Baxter Purchase Award, 1969 <ref name="gallery.ca " />
==Further reading== *''Marian Dale Scott: Pioneer of Modern Art''. Esther Trépanier. Musée du Québec, 2000. {{ISBN|2-551-20374-0}}
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==External links== *[https://www.mayberryfineart.com/artist/marian_dale_scott Marian Dale Scott images] at Mayberry Fine Art
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