# Statira Elizabeth Frame

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{{Short description|Canadian painter}}
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| birth_name     = Statira Elizabeth Wells
| birth_date     = {{birth date|1858|9|15|mf=y}}
| birth_place    = Granby, [Canada East](/source/Canada_East)
| death_date     = {{death date and age|1935|11|29|1858|9|15|mf=y}}
| death_place   = [Vancouver](/source/Vancouver), Canada
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| field         = [Painter](/source/Painter)
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| movement      = [Modernism](/source/Modernism)
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| spouse        = William Frame
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'''Statira Elizabeth Frame''' (15 September 1858 &ndash; 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](/source/Granby%2C_Quebec), [Canada East](/source/Canada_East).<ref name="CanadianBiography " /> She moved to [Vancouver](/source/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](/source/Emily_Carr) and was introduce to [Post-impressionistic](/source/Post-Impressionism) 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](/source/Ashcan_School)'s [Robert Henri](/source/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](/source/American_Impressionist) [Armin Hansen](/source/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](/source/Vancouver_Art_Gallery) in April 1936.<ref name="CanadianBiography " /> Some of her work is held at the [BC Archives.](/source/British_Columbia_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>

==References==
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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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