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'''Estelle Muriel Kerr''' (1879-1971) was a Canadian painter, illustrator and writer.[[File:Fisherfolk of Volendam 1901 by Estelle Kerr.jpg|thumb|]]
==Life==
Estelle Muriel Kerr was born in [[Toronto]], Canada, in 1879.{{sfn|Butlin|2009|p=228}}
In Toronto she studied with [[Mary Ella Dignam]] and [[Laura Muntz Lyall]].{{sfn|KERR, Estelle Muriel, CWAHI}}
She studied at [[The New York Art Students League]] (NYASL) for about two years from 1901.{{sfn|Butlin|2009|p=228}}
She also spent two years at the [[Académie de la Grande Chaumière]].
During the summers she sketched in Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.{{sfn|KERR, Estelle Muriel, CWAHI}}
Around 1913 Kerr shared a studio in Toronto with [[Dorothy Stevens]].
In [[World War I]] (1914-1918) she drove an ambulance in France.
She became well known as an art critic and a painter of children.{{sfn|Butlin|2009|p=228}}
She also painted landscapes and figure studies.{{sfn|KERR, Estelle Muriel, CWAHI}}
Kerr was among the founding members of the Graphics Art Club and the [[Heliconian Club]].{{sfn|Butlin|2009|p=228}}
Kerr died in 1971.
==Publications==
Kerr  illustrated several children's books and contributed illustrated stories and poems to several publications.
She published:{{sfn|KERR, Estelle Muriel, CWAHI}}
*''Little Sam in Volendam'', children's book
*''The Town Crier of Gevrey", based on her experiences in World War I.
===Selected writings===
* ''Concerning Canadian Art.'' Courier (7 Oct. 1916?).
* ''Do You Speak Spanish?'' Toronto Star Weekly (21 Aug. 1926): 21.
* ''How Henri Won His Maple Leaf.'' Canadian Magazine 54.3 (Jan. 1920): 220-22.
* ''I Seek Lodgings in Paris.'' Toronto Star Weekly (14 May 1927).
* ''In the Vineyards of Burgundy.'' Canadian Magazine 52.2 (Dec. 1918): 631-35.
* ''Monsieur Le Fou: The Tale of a Misunderstanding - Reggie Is Locked Up But Makes His Escape.'' Toronto Saturday Night (16 Jul. 1927).
* ''Recommended Hotels.'' Toronto Star Weekly (11 Dec. 1926).
* ''The Artist.'' Toronto Saturday Night 26: 35 (7 Jun. 1913): 29.
* ''The Etcher's Point of View.'' Canadian Magazine 48 (Dec. 1916): 152-59.
* ''Uncle Norman's Portrait.'' Canadian Magazine 50.6 (Apr. 1918): 489-495.
* ''Women Sculptors in Toronto.'' Women's Saturday Night (20 Jun. 1914).
* ''Royal Castles in France.'' Canadian Magazine 64.4 (Feb. 1916): 282-94.
==References==
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'''Sources'''
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*{{cite book|last=Butlin|first=Susan|title=The Practice of Her Profession: Florence Carlyle, Canadian Painter in the Age of Impressionism
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1t5Fm7IFMTYC&pg=PA228|access-date=2014-07-02
|date=2009-01-01|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-7525-7}}
*{{cite web|ref={{harvid|KERR, Estelle Muriel, CWAHI}}|url=http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=28
|title=KERR, Estelle Muriel|work=Canadian Women Artists History Initiative|publisher=Concordia University|access-date=2014-07-02}}
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[[Category:1879 births]]
[[Category:1971 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian painters]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian women painters]]