{{Short description|Canadian painter}} {{Infobox artist | name = Statira Elizabeth Frame | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = Statira Elizabeth Wells | birth_date = {{birth date|1858|9|15|mf=y}} | birth_place = Granby, Canada East | death_date = {{death date and age|1935|11|29|1858|9|15|mf=y}} | death_place = Vancouver, Canada | nationality = | education = | field = Painter | training = | movement = Modernism | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = William Frame }}
'''Statira Elizabeth Frame''' (15 September 1858 – 29 November 1935) was a Canadian painter, known for her innovative use of colour.<ref name="CanadianBiography " >{{cite web|last1=Monks|first1=Christian|title=WELLS, STATIRA ELIZABETH (Frame)|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/wells_statira_elizabeth_16E.html|website=Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 16|publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval|accessdate=22 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201080829/http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/wells_statira_elizabeth_16E.html|archive-date=1 December 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Biography== Statira Elizabeth Wells was born in 1858 in Granby, Canada East.<ref name="CanadianBiography " /> She moved to Vancouver after her marriage to William Frame, a bookkeeper for the Hastings Saw Mill Store in Vancouver.<ref name="CanadianBiography " />
Frame attended some art classes at Vancouver Night School. In 1909, she began to exhibit her work with the Studio Club.<ref name="CanadianBiography " /> Frame was an acquaintance of Emily Carr and was introduce to Post-impressionistic concepts by Carr in 1912.<ref name="cwahi " >{{cite web|title=Frame, Statira Elizabeth|url=https://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=172|website=Canadian Women Artists History Initiative|accessdate=22 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201041607/https://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=172|archive-date=1 December 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
In 1918, Frame submitted some canvases to the American Ashcan School's Robert Henri for review. She received encouraging feedback from Henri, particularly regarding her use of colour.<ref name="CanadianBiography " /> Shortly thereafter Frame traveled to California for several months to study with the American Impressionist Armin Hansen.<ref name="CanadianBiography " />
In the 1920s, Frame exhibited her work at the ''British Columbia Society of Fine Arts'' and the ''Vancouver Sketch Club''.<ref name="CanadianBiography " /> Frame became a prominent figure in the Vancouver art scene,<ref name="Tippett">{{cite book|last1=Tippett|first1=Maria|title=Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture|date=2015|publisher=Harbour Publishing|isbn=978-1550177305|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3MKECgAAQBAJ&q=Palette+and+Chisel+Club+vancouver&pg=PT64|accessdate=22 November 2017|language=en}}</ref> particularly at the newly formed ''Palette and Chisel Club''. She continued to exhibit in the Vancouver area in the 1930s.<ref name="CanadianBiography " />
Frame died in 1935 in Vancouver.<ref name="cwahi " />
A posthumous exhibition of her work was held at Vancouver Art Gallery in April 1936.<ref name="CanadianBiography " /> Some of her work is held at the BC Archives.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frame, Statira Elizabeth |url=https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/frame-statira-elizabeth-d-1935 |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=BC Archives}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://www.invaluable.com/artist/frame-statira-ijrg78a4lb Statira Elizabeth Frame images] on Invaluable Art
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