Violet Keene
{{short description|English–Canadian photographer (1893–1987)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Violet Keene
| image = Pomegranates by Minna Keene (cropped).jpg
| caption = Keene, photographed {{circa|1910}} by her mother
| birth_date = {{birth year|1893}}
| birth_place = Bath, Somerset, England
UK of Great Britain and Ireland
| mother = Minna Keene
| spouse = Harold Edgar Perinchief
| death_date = {{death date and age|1987|05|10|1893|df=y}}
| death_place = Oakville, Ontario, Canada
| occupation = Photographer
}}
Violet Keene (1893{{spaced en dash}}10 May 1987) was an English-born Canadian photographer.__NOTOC__
Personal life
In 1893, Violet Keene was born in Bath, Somerset, England, to the photographer Minna Keene. The family later moved to Canada, residing in Montreal and then Toronto. Keene married Harold Edgar Perinchief and retained her maiden name. She died in Oakville, Ontario, on 10 May 1987.
Career
Keene first learned photography in her mother's Montreal studio. She assisted her her mother with a 1914–1915 commission by Canadian Pacific Railway to photograph the Rocky Mountains for marketing materials. After her mother's 1943 death, Keene took over her studios in Oakville and Montreal.
Violet Keene exhibited her work in both Europe and North America. In Toronto, she established her own studio where she photographed Canadian artists and statesmen such as Aldous Huxley, George Bernard Shaw, and Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough.
Art Canada Institute described Keene's work as "neglected for many years" before rediscovery was driven by a 1983 exhibition displayed at Art Gallery of Ontario and London Regional Art Gallery. The archives of her work (and her mother's) were acquired by The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University.
References
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{{cite web |url=https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/politics-law/the-changing-face-of-the-governor-general |title=The Changing Face of the Governor General |last=Nault |first=Jennifer |date=2016-01-28 |publisher=Canada's National History Society |language=en |access-date=2021-01-07 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928094249/https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/politics-law/the-changing-face-of-the-governor-general |archive-date=2020-09-28 |quote=The prestigious role of Governor General of Canada dates back nearly 400 years, to the Governor of New France, Samuel de Champlain.}}
{{cite web |url=https://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=5630 |title=KEENE, Violet (Perinchef) |department=Canadian Women Artists History Initiative |publisher=Concordia University |language=en |access-date=2021-01-07 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314174527/https://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=5630 |archive-date=2018-03-14}}
{{cite web |url=https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/photography-in-canada-1839-1989/key-photographers/minna-keene-and-violet-keene-perinchief/ |title=Minna Keene (1861, Arolson, Germany–1943, Oakville, Ontario) and Violet Keene Perinchief (1893, Bath, England–1987, Oakville, Ontario) |last1=Bassnett |first1=Sarah |last2=Parsons |first2=Sarah |website=Photography in Canada, 1839–1989 |publisher=Art Canada Institute |language=en |access-date=2024-01-06 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205221645/https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/photography-in-canada-1839-1989/key-photographers/minna-keene-and-violet-keene-perinchief/ |archive-date=2023-12-05}}
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Category:20th-century Canadian photographers
Category:20th-century Canadian women artists
Category:20th-century British women photographers
Category:artists from Bath, Somerset