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using clays stained green, white and blue, which she called "Scotian Pebble". She continue to experiment until she was aged 93. According to Homer Lord, who worked with her for a month and a half in the summer of 1949, she was a very strong china painter but not a strong potter. Her main interest in
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Halifax and Bermuda Cable Company. The Hagens went on a tour of Europe, and Alice visited leading china manufacturers in England, France and Italy. In London she saw early Near Eastern lustre wares in a Persian Art Exhibit. In France she became interested in making
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Jamaica, and the first woman to be awarded the silver medal. The Hagens returned to Halifax in 1916. Soon after she held an exhibition at the Women's Art Association Studio in Toronto. Alice Hagen continued to paint china, to teach and to exhibit in Halifax and Toronto.
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January 1972. The Nova Scotia government received forty-eight pieces of her handpainted china, glass and pottery, which are on display at the Citadel Museum in Halifax. In 1966 she gave the Mount Saint Vincent Academy many of her works of pottery and
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Burslem, Staffordshire, England, and depicts a different Canadian game bird. The finished product was well received. In 1898 the "Canadian Historical Dinner Service" was purchased by private subscriptions from members of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, and on 13 June 1898 was formally
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Oil paintings covered most of the wall space. Casually disposed on ceramic tile tables stood vases and priceless lustre. Chinaware and decorated glass spilled out of cupboards and china cabinets, or stood carelessly on the floor ... She mixes her cakes in a gorgeous punch bowl hand painted in
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in New York in 1896. Alice Egan leased a studio in
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Victoria School of Art & Design in 1899-1900. She was particularly adept in
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Halifax and Bermuda Cable Company. They had two daughters, Rachel, born 1902, and Kathleen, born 1905. In 1910 John Hagen was transferred to
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pottery was decoration of the surfaces, so she often cast rather than threw her pots. The journalist Kay Hill visited Hagen in 1959 for an interview for the
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