Early Life, Family and Training Mabel Lockerby was born on March 13, 1882, in Montreal, Quebec. She was the daughter of Alexander Linton Lockerby, a grocer, and Barbara Cox. The family lived in several different houses along MacKay Street, moving through the streets of Montreal as they grew. Among her seven siblings, four survived to adulthood. Her formal training began at the Art Association of Montreal. There, she studied under the guidance of William Brymner and Maurice Cullen. These teachers helped shape her early development as she worked through the curriculum of the association.Artist…
A chart of Mabel Lockerby's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.