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Zoe (Mary Hopkinson) Dunning was born in West-Dean-Chichester, Sussex, England in 1877 and immigrated to Canada in 1896. The wife of an RCMP officer, she lived in various locations in Western Canada, including in Battleford, Maple Creek, Swift Current, and Moose Jaw in Saskatchewan and in Dauphin, Manitoba. By 1938, she had settled in Calgary and become an active member of the Calgary art community. She studied at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (now the Alberta College of Art and Design) under British watercolourist A.C. Leighton, was a member of the Calgary Sketch Club and also of the Alberta Society of Artists. Her medium of choice was watercolour – which she did very well, to a large extent influenced by the British watercolour tradition that she was exposed to via Leighton – and she favoured still life, urban scenes and landscape subjects, especially the mountains around Banff.
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