ABSTRACT
The Soul Pictures of Margaret Mary Nealis R.S.C.J.
1876 – 1957
Apollonia Schofield
1993
More people have seen the paintings of Margaret Mary
Nealis than are aware of the identity of the artist who produced them. A Religious of the
Sacred Heart, for four decades Mother Nealis painted religious subjects in and around
Montreal. Her output was prodigious and she fulfilled many major commissions. Her
paintings were reproduced in large quantities and distributed world-wide through the
efforts of the Montreal commercial photographer, J.F.Topp.
This paper presents Margaret Mary Nealis, the artist, for
the first time, through personal interviews with her contemporaries, and what little
archival documentation was available. It also provides a listing of most of her extant and
lost works.
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