Rita Mount

Rita Mount (7 February 1885–22 January 1967) was a Canadian painter who was renowned for her marine scenes.

Biography Rita Mount was born in Montreal. At the age of ten she began her artistic studies. She was trained in drawing, workshop and motif, by her cousin who had studied at the National Institute of Fine Arts with and then at the Art Association of Montreal with William Brymner and Edmond Dyonnet. Afterwards, she distinguished herself during summer classes offered by Maurice Cullen and won a two-year scholarship at the Art Association of Montreal, a private school and museum founded in 1860 (later, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts). Her training was enhanced by studies and stays abroad.

In 1910, at the age 25, Rita Mount studied at the Atelier Delécluze and at the Cercle Internationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris and at the Art Students League in New York with Frank DuMond. She also took landscape painting classes with John F. Carlson in Woodstock, New York. After graduating, she returned to Canada and opened a studio in Montreal. In 1958, her works were shown in a three-woman exhibition alongside Irene Shaver and Vivian Walker. Over sixty-years later the women's work was exhibited again in commemoration of International Women's Day at the marden Art Gallery, in Pointe-Claire Village, Montreal, Québec.

Her work has also been on display in Continental Galleries, Watson Art Galleries, Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, and Morency Frères Ltée., all in Montreal. and the National Gallery of Canada. At her death in 1967, her sister entrusted her archives to the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. This material, which also includes correspondence, is one of the few collections illustrating the career of a female artist-painter in Quebec.