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Adela Smith Lintelmann Oil Painting, Flowers #1473883

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Adela Smith Lintelmann Oil Painting, Flowers #1473883
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Artist: Adela Smith Lintelmann

Title: Untitled 25

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 36" x 47"





Adela Smith Lintelmann (1902 - 1996)




A U.B.C. graduate in the 20's, Adela Smith was a role model for future artists and feminists. She established herself as a mathematician and a scholar then, on attending a lecture by an established Canadian artist, she was inspired to paint.
With her characteristly adventurous spirit and armed with only her
degree, a teaching certificate and a course in typing, she left Vancouver for New York and the Arts Students League. To support her dream she worked her way up at the New York stock exchange to become one of the first women stock brokers on Wall Street.



She married a fellow student, Les Lintelmann (thereby losing her Canadian Citizenship) and also supported his artistic pursuits. While their marriage lasted they fully enjoyed a vibrant if frugal lifestyle, ice¬skating at Rockerfeller Center and enjoying the riches of the local art scene and were not discouraged by bouts of malnutrition brought on by a diet of pancakes.



When the Second World War began, a group of scholars, several from U.B.C., were asked to Ottawa to assist in the war effort. Adela accepted an invitation to work for the Federal Goverment as a securities analyst. There she met the author's uncle, Morley Scott, another of the Alumni group. 'They became life long friends and traveling companions as Morley went on to represent ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:c. 1960's</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:36</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:47</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Adela Smith Lintelmann Oil Painting, Flowers</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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