Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic

b. 1916 Victoria, B.C. d. 2007 Victoria, B.C.

Culture

Canadian

Bio

MYFANWY PAVELIC was born and raised on Vancouver Island. She had little formal art training, but at the age of 15 an exhibition was arranged for her by Canada's foremost West Coast painter, Emily Carr. Pavelic's love of music and talent as a musician attracted her to the career of a concert pianist but when a problem with her wrists barred further development in this field, she turned her creativity to drawing and painting.

For several years she spent part of each year in New York. Here she observed the changing climate of the international art world. She experimented with abstract expressionism but finally reaffirmed her commitment to her own evolving figurative style. She has worked in oil and acrylic and has successfully experimented with tissue collage. Charcoal, one of her favourite media, has been used for both prepatory sketches and finished drawings.

For most of her career, Pavelic focused on the human figure; she is renowned for her portrait paintings. Local and international personalities have come to her Saanich studio for sittings, from Maxwell Bates and her fellow artists of the Victoria "Limners" group, to former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

However, the music world remained a constant interest. Its creative personalities provided her with much subject matter for her paintings and sketches. These people included Mstislav Rostropovich, Paul Badura-Skoda, Glenn Gould, Jan Cherniavsky, Zara Nelsova, Ravi Shankar and her close friend, actress Katharine Hepburn. Pavelic's now well-known portrait of Yehudi Menuhin was commissioned by Lord Thompson for Fleet for Britain's National Portrait Gallery in 1984.

Pavelic was awarded the Order of Canada, was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy and held an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria.

She died in Victoria on May 7, 2007.
(1916 - 2007)

Artworks

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Title	Date Made	Place Made	Collections	Materials	Measurements	Edition	Credit Line
Meditation	1974	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada	Works on Cloth	acrylic on canvas	frame: 108 cm x 74 cm; image size: 104 cm x 70.75 cm	-	Gift of the City of Burnaby, Burnaby Art Gallery
Dick (Palette Knife)	1980s-1990s	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada	Works on Cloth	oil on canvas board	board size: 26.5 cm x 21 cm; frame: 39.5 cm x 45 cm x 4 cm	-	Gift of Pieter Van Der Leeden
White Form	1977	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada	Works on Board	acrylic on board	frame: 74 cm x 74 cm; image size: 69.5 cm x 69.5 cm	-	Gift of the City of Burnaby, Burnaby Art Gallery
Rock Forms	n.d.	Sidney, British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Charcoal	overall: 41.00 cm x 47.50 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Purchased with assistance of the University of Victoria Art Acquisition Fund
Walter Dexter	1985	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Charcoal	overall: 35.56 cm x 36.83 cm x 0.00 cm	Relationships Series	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Impressions of Yehudi Menuhin (Six Heads)	1975	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Graphite	overall: 57.00 cm x 72.50 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
The Limners	1975	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Board	Acrylic; Tissue paper	overall: 96.52 cm x 142.88 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Luis Merino and Adan - Hands (Relationships Series)	1984	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Charcoal	overall: 55.24 cm x 60.96 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Elza And Anne (Relationships Series)	1984	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Cloth	Acrylic	overall: 66.04 cm x 53.34 cm x 0.00 cm	Relationships Series	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Helga Grove	1984	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Charcoal	overall: 36.83 cm x 47.63 cm x 0.00 cm	Relationships Series	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Yellow Hat	1975	-	Works on Paper	Serigraph	overall: 50.50 cm x 38.00 cm	Ap	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Yehudi Menuhin - Green Horizon	1982	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Cloth	Oil	overall: 80.96 cm x 96.20 cm x 0.00 cm	Yehudi Menuhin	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Figure - Peter	1962	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Cloth	Oil	overall: 101.60 cm x 76.20 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Helga and George (Relationships Series)	1984	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Acrylic; Charcoal	image size: 60.96 cm x 48.26 cm	Relationships Series	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Rona Murray And Walter Dexter	1984	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Cloth	Acrylic	overall: 73.66 cm x 71.12 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Glenn Gould	1986	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Charcoal	overall: 40.01 cm x 33.02 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Untitled (Portrait of Maxwell Bates)	n.d.	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Mixed media; Watercolour; acrylic	overall: 55.00 cm x 42.00 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of the Estate of Michael C. Williams
Autumn Landscape	1970	-	Works on Board	Acrylic	overall: 65.00 cm x 65.00 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Joanne Di Castri
Chancellor J.B. Clearihue	n.d.	Sidney, British Columbia, Canada	Works on Cloth	Oil	overall: 109.50 cm x 89.00 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Purchased with assistance of the University of Victoria Art Acquisition Fund
Nude - Pale Green Background	1945	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Cloth	Oil	overall: 63.50 cm x 50.80 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II	n.d.	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Serigraph	overall: 57.70 cm x 46.10 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Mother	1963	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Cloth	Oil	overall: 140.32 cm x 71.12 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Yehudi Menuhin (9)	1982	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Cloth	Oil	overall: 50.80 cm x 63.50 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Elizabeth and Stephanie's Hands (Relationship Series)	1984	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Charcoal	overall: 51.44 cm x 38.73 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Foggy Morning	1981	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Charcoal	overall: 39.37 cm x 33.02 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Untitled (Man and Woman)	n.d.	Sidney, British Columbia, Canada	Works on Board	Acrylic	overall: 55.90 cm x 76.20 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Dr. J. Ewing	n.d.	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada	Works on Cloth	Oil	overall: 100.00 cm x 88.00 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Purchased with assistance of the University of Victoria Art Acquisition Fund
Hindu Boy	1937	Sidney, British Columbia, Canada	Works on Cloth	Oil	overall: 45.72 cm x 35.56 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Untitled (Mischel Cherniavsky)	-	-	Works on Paper	Graphite	-	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
A Box is a Box	n.d.	-	Works on Paper	Mixed Media; newspaper clippings; charcoal	overall: 35.50 cm x 28.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Jan Cherniavsky	1945	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Cloth	Oil	overall: 50.80 cm x 40.64 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Driftwood Bowl	1971	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Charcoal	overall: 21.59 cm x 26.67 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Seated In Corridor (Pierre Trudeau)	1991	Sidney, British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Charcoal	overall: 73.00 cm x 49.60 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Zara Nelsova (cellist)	1978	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Graphite	overall: 40.01 cm x 58.42 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Hands And Frames (Self-Portrait)	1967	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	charcoal	overall: 43.18 cm x 43.81 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Autumn Dream (Variation On a Figure)	1977	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Cloth	Acrylic	overall: 66.04 cm x 76.20 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Yehudi, Menuhin - Hand Playing (Face Faint) #12	1982	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Conte	overall: 33.02 cm x 25.40 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Untitled (Maxwell Bates)	n.d.	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Graphite	overall: 53.00 cm x 45.70 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Exercise With Head (Self-Portrait)	1984	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Cloth	acrylic	overall: 67.04 cm x 60.96 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Eileen Learoyd and Grania; Relationship Series	1984	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Cloth	Acrylic	overall: 57.50 cm x 47.00 cm x 0.00 cm	Relationship Series	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Couple - Black And White	1970's	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Charcoal	overall: 58.00 cm x 77.00 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
The Flute (Paul Horn)	1976	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Board	Acrylic; Tissue paper	overall: 152.40 cm x 121.92 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Untitled (Max Bates)	n.d.	Sidney, British Columbia, Canada	Works on Board	Acrylic	overall: 53.70 cm x 76.10 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Blue, Black and Orange	1980	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Oil pastel; acrylic	overall: 46.99 cm x 38.10 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Yehudi Menuhin (10)	1982	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Cloth	Acrylic	overall: 50.80 cm x 60.33 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
John Dunn (N.Y. Period)	1952	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Charcoal	overall: 44.45 cm x 58.42 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
The Limners (Rough Sketch)	c.1975	Sidney, British Columbia, Canada	Works on Board	Acrylic	overall: 76.00 cm x 102.00 cm	Sketch for The Limners u993.7.108	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Nude Back - Rita	1964	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Cloth	Oil	overall: 35.56 cm x 25.40 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Yehudi Menuhin	1982	British Columbia, Canada	Works on Cloth	Acrylic	overall: 76.20 cm x 86.36 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic
Untitled (female nude)	-	Sidney, British Columbia, Canada	Works on Paper	Charcoal	overall: 59.70 cm x 45.30 cm x 0.00 cm	-	Gift of Dr. Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic

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Myfanwy Spencer Pavelic

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b. 1916 Victoria, B.C. d. 2007 Victoria, B.C.

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