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Minna Keene + Violet Keene Perinchief

Before settling in Canada in 1913, the German-born Minna Keene (1861–1943) worked in South Africa and England where she gained widespread recognition producing portraits, still lifes, landscape and nature studies, and scenes of everyday life. Keene was heavily influenced by Pictorialism—the leading artistic movement in photography beginning in the 1890s—and her lighting style and compositions deliberately echoed those of nineteenth-century British and French painting. In 1908, Keene became the first woman admitted to England’s prestigious Royal Photographic Society. Her work was regularly included in the Society’s annual exhibitions, and shown in numerous Canadian and international publications. 

Violet Keene Perinchief (1893–1987) learned photography alongside her mother, apprenticing in Minna’s studio and accompanying her on a 1914 trip to document the landscapes of Western Canada for the Canadian Pacific Railway. As the manager of Eaton’s Portrait Studio in Toronto between 1933 and 1948, and at the family’s long-running studio in Oakville, Ontario, Violet specialized in portraits of local clients and notable personalities, such as Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, and Former Prime Minister of Canada, R. B. Bennet. Like her mother, Keene Perinchief was influenced by the Pictorialist sensibility, seen in her compositions drawn from European paintings and use of chiaroscuro and haloing lighting effects. 


73 items
Pomegranates Sold

Pomegranates

Minna Keene

Stephen Bulger Gallery

Japanese Study

Japanese Study

Violet Keene Perinchief

Stephen Bulger Gallery

$800 USD
Dolls

Dolls

Violet Keene Perinchief

Stephen Bulger Gallery

$5,200 USD
William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

Violet Keene Perinchief

Stephen Bulger Gallery

$7,600 USD
Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

Violet Keene Perinchief

Stephen Bulger Gallery

$2,400 USD
Indian Princess, Her Highness the Rani of Mandi

Indian Princess, Her Highness the Rani of Mandi

Violet Keene Perinchief

Stephen Bulger Gallery

$2,400 USD
Phyllis Marshall

Phyllis Marshall

Violet Keene Perinchief

Stephen Bulger Gallery

$2,400 USD
African Appeal [Phyllis Marshall] Sold

African Appeal [Phyllis Marshall]

Violet Keene Perinchief

Stephen Bulger Gallery

The Art Student - Violet Keene Perinchief

The Art Student

Violet Keene Perinchief

Stephen Bulger Gallery

$1,440 USD
Untitled [Young woman with flower baskets] Sold

Untitled [Young woman with flower baskets]

Minna Keene

Stephen Bulger Gallery

Hope Springs Eternal

Hope Springs Eternal

Minna Keene

Stephen Bulger Gallery

$2,800 USD
Malay Vegetable Boy

Malay Vegetable Boy

Minna Keene

Stephen Bulger Gallery

$9,600 USD