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28th January 2025

Margaret Atkins was "brought up on pictures and music" in a creative home in Hamilton, Ontario. But when her father went bankrupt she was taken out of school at the age of 15 to learn home-making skills, and also sold her hand-made "hand-wipers and pudding tidies". For the rest of her life would earn her own living, seeing photography as a craft skill as much as an art, but the domestic remained an important element in her work. In 1919 she began her influential series of still lifes; this is Domestic Symphony (1919, various collections).

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