Dorothy Stevens

Dorothy Stevens (1888-1966) RCA, OSA, CPE

Dorothy Stevens was born in Toronto in 1888. In 1904, she traveled to London to study at the Slade School of Art, London, and then went on to Paris to study at the Académie Colarossi and Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Upon her return to Canada in 1911, she began a successful career as an artist. She received excellent exhibition reviews, many commissions for portraits and won numerous awards. In 1919, Stevens applied for a commission from the Canadian War Memorials Fund to produce a series of etchings that would document the home front activities of the Toronto shipbuilding yards and the munitions workers at the British Forgings plant. After the war, Stevens won a traveling scholarship to continue studying art in Europe. She journeyed to Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, and Brussels in order to sketch the cathedrals. Stevens died in Toronto in 1966 at the age of 78.

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