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Assafrey, Alma Fedora Maude
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Miss Alma Fedora Maude Assafrey was born in Glasgow in 1888. Her father was Alexander Thomas Assafrey an immigrant from Russia, and a well-known confectioner in Glasgow. Mr A T Assafrey commissioned John Honeyman & Keppie to design a chimneypiece for his Sauchiehall Street shop in 1893 and he was admitted as a lay member of the Glasgow Art Club in 1895 Miss A F M Assafrey studied drawing and painting at Glasgow School of Art. In 1909 she won the Director's prize for figure competition. She later joined the staff of the GSA as a Wardrobe Mistress (1909/1910). She may have been involved in the creation of four decorative panels for the new Possil Park Library. In 1913, she became engaged to one of her teachers, Alexander J. Musgrove, who had just been chosen as founding principal of the new School of Art in Winnipeg. He took up his position on June 27, 1913. Miss Assafrey joined him in Winnipeg in April or early May 1914. However she decided to return home. She died in the wreck of the Empress of Ireland on May 29 1914. She is buried in the Craigton Cemetery in Glasgow.
Sources:
- Ancestry.com. 1901 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: Scotland. 1901 Scotland Census. Reels 1-446. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.
- http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSA00523
- http://www.mackintosh-architecture.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/names/display/?rs=1&nid=AssafAT
- http://www.mackintosh-architecture.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/essay/?eid=clients
- http://archive.org/stream/internationalstu00newy09/internationalstu00newy09_djvu.txt (Text file)
- http://www.scotcities.com/carnegie/renaiss.htm
- http://www.empress2014.ca/seclangen/testimonies.html#assafrey"