| Margaret Frame | |
| Birth Date: | 1903 |
| Birth Place: | Oxford, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Death Place: | Napean, Ontario, Canada |
| Education: | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris |
| Field: | Painter |
Margaret Frame (1903 - 1985) was a Canadian painter known for her portraiture.[1]
Margaret Frame was born in 1903 in Oxford, Nova Scotia.[2] In 1906 her family moved to Regina, Saskatchewan[3] and there she studied with Inglis Sheldon-Williams and James Henderson.[1]
Continuing her education, from 1922 to 1924 Frame was in Boston where she studied at the Museum of Fine Arts.[2] There she was encouraged by John Singer Sargent and Philip Leslie Hale.[1] Frame then studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris for four years.[2]
In 1922 Frame's was included in the 44th exhibition of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in Montreal. In 1925 she exhibited two portraits at the British Empire Exhibition in London.[1] In 1926 Frame had her first solo exhibition at the Galérie de Marsan in Paris.[2] In 1932 her portraits were included at the Salon of Women Painters and Sculptors of France.[2]
In 1943 Frame married Squadron Leader Hazlitt Seymour Beatty, R.A.F.
She returned to Canada and opened a studio in Ottawa during World War II.[1]
Among Frame's subjects were George V, William Stevens Fielding, and Michael I of Romania.[1] In 1954 she painted a portrait of Margaret McCurdy who served as the "first lady" of Nova Scotia from 1947 to 1952.[4]
Frame died on December 18, 1985, in Napean, Ontario.[4]