Painter and print-maker

Tobie Steinhouse was born in Montreal. She first studied art there with Anne Savage, then in New York at the Art Student's League. For the next ten years she worked in Paris where she studied briefly at l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, at La Grande Chaumière and with the painter Arpad Szenes. During this time she exhibited in many important "salons" such as the Salon de l'Automne, the Salon de la Jeune Peinture and the Salon de l'Art Libre. Later she studied etching and engraving at the famous Atelier 17 with William Hayter.

Returning to Montreal, she was a founding member of l'Atelier libre de recherches graphiques and of La Guilde Graphique.

She became a member of the Canadian Group of Painters and was its last president before it dissolved. In 1972, she was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Tobie Steinhouse has won many honours including 1st prize at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts' Spring Show in 1963, the Sterling Trust Award of the Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers, two Purchase Awards of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, an Ottawa N.C.J.W. 1st prize, and a Quebec Competition Purchase Award. She was awarded the Centennial Medal in 1967.

She has had numerous solo exhibitions in Canada and abroad and has participated in such prestigious international exhibitions as the Print Biennials in Bradford, England, Chili, Venezuela, France, Italy, Switzerland and the USA.

Her work is represented in many collections, including the National Gallery in Ottawa, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, the Quebec Museum, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the Bezalel Museum in Jerusalem, Israel. It is also present in private collections such as Air Canada, Esso, Bell-Canada, Hydro-Quebec, Alcan and many others in Canada and throughout the world.

SOLO EHIBITIONS (partial list)

1957                Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris

1959                Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Gallery XII

1960                Galerie Denyse Delrue, Montréal

1963                Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Norton Gallery

1966                Galerie Agnès Lefort, Montréal

1978                Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Gallery A

1982                Galerie de la Guilde Graphique, Montréal

1986                Galerie l'Autre Equivoque, Ottawa

1991                Galerie Arts Sutton, Sutton, Qc

1992                Galerie du Parc, Maison de Tonnancour, Trois-Rivières

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