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Molly Joan Lamb Bobak

Molly Joan Lamb Bobak (1920 - 2014) was active/lived in British Columbia, New Brunswick / Canada.  Molly Bobak is known for Female figure and crowd genre painting, teaching, combat artist.

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Molly Lamb Bobak (1920-)

The central theme in Bobak's work have been flowers and crowds of people.  Her flower paintings, mostly rendered in watercolor and washes express the fragility of her subjects.  Her crowd paintings, mainly rendered in oil, are impressions of gatherings, showing the artist's interpretation of the essence of the occasion rather than the minute details of it.

She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1920, the  daughter of Harold Mortimer-Lamb, a mining executive, publisher, art critic, art collector, photographer and painter and Mary Alice Price/Williams.

In 1938, she began her formal art studies at the Vancouver School of Art under Jack Shadbolt.  She joined the Canadian Women's Army Corps (C.W.A.C.) in 1942 rose to lieutenant and became the first official female War Artist with the Canadian Army in Europe, 1945 to 1946, submitting over 400 works during her term.

She married fellow war artist Bruno Bobak in 19   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9310 characters.]  Artist bio

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