Eva Koves Stubbs | |
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| Born | Eva Koves (1925-04-20)20 April 1925 Budapest, Hungary |
| Died | 16 December 2017(2017-12-16) (aged 92) |
| Education | fine arts diploma from theUniversity of Manitoba in 1957 |
| Known for | artist and educator |
| Spouse(s) | Hyman Wolinsky; Harold St. George Stubbs |
Eva Koves StubbsRCA (20 April 1925 – 16 December 2017) was aHungarian-born Canadian artist and educator.[1]
Stubbs was bornEva Koves inBudapest, the daughter of Jewish parents, grew up inBarcelona andTangier, and came toWinnipeg with her parents in 1942. She married Hyman Wolinsky soon afterwards; the couple had a son, film editorSidney Wolinsky in 1947. She and her husband Hyman Wolinsky were ofJewish background.[2] Later that same year, she was diagnosed withtuberculosis and moved into asanitarium inSaint Boniface. Stubbs received a fine arts diploma from theUniversity of Manitoba in 1957. She also attended summer classes at theCranbrook Academy of Art inMichigan, theUniversity of Minnesota and theBanff School of the Arts.[3][4]
She separated from her husband and moved with her son toMontreal, where she taught high school art classes from 1959 to 1963. Stubbs subsequently returned to Winnipeg, where she married lawyer Harold St. George Stubbs and had another son. She later taught art classes at theWinnipeg Art Gallery andLakehead University. She was a founding member of SITE, an artist-run co-operative gallery in Winnipeg and was a mentor in the advisory program for the organization Mentoring Artists for Women's Art. She was elected to theRoyal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1995.[3][4][5]
Stubbs held her first solo exhibition in 1976. She worked in wood, bronze and clay, producing realistic and abstract human figures. She completed a series of bronze panels for the Manitoba Law Courts building. The Winnipeg Art Gallery held aretrospective of her work in 2010.[3][4] Stubbs also created a number of bronze busts for the Winnipeg Citizen's Hall of Fame inAssiniboine Park.[6]
She died in Winnipeg in 2017.[4]
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