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Born on February 25, 1922, Molly Lamb Bobak grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. Bobak's mother, Mary Williams, initially worked as a housekeeper for Bobak's father, Harold Mortimer-Lamb, when his wife became ill.
She received her first art training at the Saturday morning classes at the Vancouver School of Art, and later took a four year degree followed by a year of post graduate studies at the school (1938-1942). She joined the Canadian Women's Army Corps in 1942, and was appointed a war artist in 1945. In 1945 she married the Polish-Canadian artist Bruno Bobak, also a Canadian War Artist, and settled with him in Vancouver. She is a member of the Canadian Group of Painters, the B.C. Society of Artists, and the Canadian Society of Graphic Artists. She is represented in the National Gallery of Canada by several works.
Since 1980 she has received increasing attention by having been included in a number of exhibitions. Molly Lamb was in the first retrospective held by Emily Carr College of Art in 1980 (Vancouver School of Art: The Early Years, 1925-1939). In 1984/85, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria included Portrait of Molly in British Columbia Women Artists, 1885-1985.
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Revised by BCANS Coordinator, Feb 25, 2012.
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MacDonald, Colin S., <i>Dictionary of Canadian Artists.</i> Volume 1, A-F. Ottawa: Canadian Paperbacks, 1967.