July 14, 1925 – December 3, 2022
Ann MacIntosh Duff, a gifted and influential artist, died peacefully at her home in Toronto in her 98th year. The daughter of Constance Hamilton Townsend Duff and John MacIntosh Duff, Ann studied art at the Queen’s University summer arts program with Andrew Bieler and at Central Technical School with Doris McCarthy. Ann then abandoned formal study and with her singular talent and quiet determination pursued a successful career as an artist for over seventy years. Primarily a painter in watercolour, she was a member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Her exhibiting career began in the 1960s at the Picture Loan Society headed by Douglas Duncan and she went on to show her work at various Toronto galleries, most recently the Nicholas Metivier Gallery. Her work has been exhibited both in Canada and internationally and is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Tom Thomson Gallery, which in 2007 held a sixty year retrospective of Ann’s work. In 2022, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection selected two hundred of Ann’s paintings to add to its permanent collection of important Canadian artists.
Ann worked from two studios, at her home in Toronto and at her island in Georgian Bay, which she deeply loved and which was the subject of much of her work.
Ann will be missed by a wide circle of friends as well as the many admirers of her art.
Special thanks to Dr Eugenie Phan of HouseCalls and to Cynthia Villanueva, Christine Leonardo and Sonia Brown, all of whom made it possible for Ann to fulfill her wish to remain at home to the end of her long life.
A private interment service has been held.
2022
Nos plus sincères sympathies à la famille et aux amis de Ann MacIntosh Duff 2022..
Morley Bedford Funeral Services Ltd
Décès pour la Ville:Toronto, Province: Ontario