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In 1938, Mitchell's father contracted cancer, and
Mitchell returned home to help Maude care for him. After he died in 1939, Mitchell stayed on to provide for Maude. Deciding that she needed a better-paying job to support both of them, she enrolled in business school again, and after graduation in
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to pay for her room and board. The following year, she moved back home, but Rose forced her to quit school at the end of Grade 9 to work as a full-time chambermaid, confiscating all of Janet's wages. At age 16, Mitchell convinced her father to allow her to enrol in business school to learn
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Mitchell's artistic inclinations, and gave her a set of oil paints for her 21st birthday. On her way to work at the
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Christmas cards, making her the first Western Canadian artist to be so honoured. In 1966, she was one of only 15 Canadian artists commissioned to create paintings for
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Saskatchewan. In 1962, at age 50, she made the decision to leave her government job and become a full-time artist. Numerous one-person exhibitions followed, mostly in Alberta, at the Allied Arts Centre in
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Western Canada", as well as "whimsical, sometimes dreamlike images in vibrant colors of cats, dogs, birds or fanciful floating people." In the
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Calgary house and toured European museums and art galleries for a year. She then moved back to Calgary to return to her art.
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whose work she saw on a trip in 1950 to New York. In
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