Anne Douglas Savage
Anne Douglas Savage
1896 - 1971
BHG CGP
Anne Savage was born into a prominent family in Montreal that included the Scottish novelist John Galt and Sir Alexander Galt, a father of Confederation.

After attending the Art Association of Montreal and studying with Maurice Cullen and William Brymner, she became a founding member of the Beaver Hall Group in Montreal in 1920, a lively English-speaking group of artists. Savage had a strong friendship with Group of Seven artist A.Y. Jackson, sharing critiques, encouragement and a mutual interest in landscape painting.

Savage grew up on a farm near Dorval and spent summers at Lake Wonish in the Laurentians. She built a studio there in 1933, and her landscape subjects were drawn from the Laurentians and the Eastern Townships.

In 1927, Savage traveled with ethnologist Marius Barbeau and artists Florence Wyle and Pegi Nicol MacLeod to the Skeena River of British Columbia, painting as part of an effort to record aboriginal culture there.

A respected art educator, Savage taught art at Baron Byng School in Montreal from 1922 to 1948, was the Art Supervisor for the Montreal Protestant School Board and also taught at McGill University. She was a pillar of the art community – she helped found Atelier, a school of modern art in Montreal. A founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters, she was elected its Montreal president in 1949.

Her work was regularly included in exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada, the Royal Canadian Academy and the Art Association of Montreal (later the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts). She was included in the 1926 Group of Seven show, and exhibited internationally at the Royal Institute Galleries and the Tate Gallery in London, the New York World’s Fair, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington and the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris, amongst others. In 1969 she was given a retrospective at Sir George Williams University in Montreal. Savage’s work embodied the spirit of modernism, and was known for its strength and clarity.
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October by Anne Douglas Savage sold for $92,000
Anne Douglas Savage
October
30 x 26 1/4 in, 76.2 x 66.7 cm
circa 1920
oil on canvas
Estimate: $80,000 - $100,000 CDN
Sold for: $92,000 CDN (premium included)
Fine Canadian Art Fall 2006 on Friday, November 24, 2006
Winter Morning by Anne Douglas Savage sold for $87,750
Anne Douglas Savage
Winter Morning
20 x 24 in, 50.8 x 61 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $70,000 - $90,000 CDN
Sold for: $87,750 CDN (premium included)
Spring 2010 - 2nd Session on Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Paradise Lost by Anne Douglas Savage sold for $64,350
Anne Douglas Savage
Paradise Lost
8 3/4 x 12 in, 22.2 x 30.5 cm
oil on board
Estimate: $30,000 - $40,000 CDN
Sold for: $64,350 CDN (premium included)
Fall 2011 - 8th Session on Thursday, November 24, 2011
Northern Lake / Trees in the Wind (verso) by Anne Douglas Savage sold for $46,800
Anne Douglas Savage
Northern Lake / Trees in the Wind (verso)
31 x 34 in, 78.7 x 86.3 cm
double-sided oil on canvas
Estimate: $70,000 - $90,000 CDN
Sold for: $46,800 CDN (premium included)
Spring 2013 - 2nd Session on Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Skeena River, British Columbia by Anne Douglas Savage sold for $46,250
Anne Douglas Savage
Skeena River, British Columbia
9 x 12 in, 22.9 x 30.5 cm
oil on board
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000 CDN
Sold for: $46,250 CDN (premium included)
Legendary: The Collection of Torben V. Kristiansen on Thursday, May 23, 2024
Pink Farmhouse, Spring by Anne Douglas Savage sold for $40,250
Anne Douglas Savage
Pink Farmhouse, Spring
26 x 30 in, 66 x 76.2 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $35,000 - $45,000 CDN
Sold for: $40,250 CDN (premium included)
Fine Canadian Art Fall 2006 on Friday, November 24, 2006
Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts by Anne Douglas Savage sold for $35,100
Anne Douglas Savage
Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts
6 3/8 x 8 1/8 in, 16.2 x 20.6 cm
oil on board
Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000 CDN
Sold for: $35,100 CDN (premium included)
November 2013 - 6th Session on Saturday, November 30, 2013
The Village by Anne Douglas Savage sold for $34,250
Anne Douglas Savage
The Village
12 x 14 in, 30.5 x 35.6 cm
oil on board
Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000 CDN
Sold for: $34,250 CDN (premium included)
Works by the Group of Seven & Their Contemporaries on Thursday, April 25, 2024
November by Anne Douglas Savage sold for $32,175
Anne Douglas Savage
November
24 x 30 in, 61 x 76.2 cm
oil on board
Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000 CDN
Sold for: $32,175 CDN (premium included)
Spring 2013 - 2nd Session on Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Totem Poles / Mountain Landscape (verso) by Anne Douglas Savage sold for $28,750
Anne Douglas Savage
Totem Poles / Mountain Landscape (verso)
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in, 21.6 x 26.7 cm
1927
double-sided oil on board
Estimate: $12,000 - $15,000 CDN
Sold for: $28,750 CDN (premium included)
Fine Canadian Art Spring 2008 on Thursday, May 22, 2008