February 25, 1922 - Molly Lamb Bobak - a podcast by Stephen Hammond

Canada’s first woman war artist, Molly Lamb Bobak, is born. Molly Bobak was born Molly Lamb on February 25, 1922 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The daughter of a geologist and an art critic and amateur photographer, Bobak futhered her natural artistic abilities at the Vancouver School of Art between 1938 and 1941. In late 1942, she enlisted as a draughtsman in the Canadian Women Army Corps (CWAC), where her work in using art to record the CWAC’s activities soon won her a promotion to lieutenant in 1945-6. That also made her the first Canadian woman with the title of war artist. After the war, she married Bruno Bobak and settled in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where she worked as a resident artist at the University of N.B. Years later, she was awarded honorary degrees from both UNB and Mount Allison University, and given Canadian grants to work on and display her paintings. In contrast to the military start to her career, Bobak won worldwide recognition for her watercolor paintings of flowers and everyday objects.

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