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Marion Nicoll, Bighorn Camp, 1933

Oil painting of tent between trees and washing hung in distance.

Credit: Leighton Art Centre Museum & Archives

Marion Nicoll, Bighorn Camp, 1933, oil on canvas

Marion Nicoll, née MacKay, was one of A.C.’s most promising students in the early 1930s. At A.C.’s prompting, she became the first female to teach at the Tech in 1933. She would go on to study in London and New York, and would become one of Alberta’s first abstract painters.

Throughout her life, she remained friends with the Leightons and strongly encouraged Barbara to return to art school following A.C.’s passing.

Batiked textile with abstract circle and rectangular designs.

Marion Nicoll, February 1967, batik. Credit: Leighton Art Centre Museum & Archives.