Lilias Marianne Ar de Soif Farley (May 2, 1907 – August 2, 1989) was a Canadian painter, sculptor, designer, and muralist in realism and abstraction.
[4] At the Vancouver School of Art, she studied design under James W. G. "Jock" Macdonald and drawing under Frederick Horsman Varley, as well as interacting with Charles Marega.
[3] In addition to Macdonald and Varley, Farley's work was influenced by stage and costume designer Harry Tauber, who studied extensively in Berlin and then Vienna under Josef Hoffman; Croatian sculptor and architect Ivan Meštrović, and Austrian puppeteer Richard Teschner, among others.
[3][4][9] In Whitehorse, she painted murals of the History of the Yukon for the Supreme Court Chambers in the Federal Building in 1955.
[4] British Columbia Artists Annual, Vancouver Art Gallery: Farley exhibited various sculptures in the following years: 1932, 1934–37, 1941, 1945.
In 1939, she exhibited the sculpture Head and two photographs of sketches for her mural in the Hotel Vancouver, which were completed that same year.
[4] British Columbia Society of Artists, Vancouver Art Gallery: Farley exhibited various sculptures in the following years; 1937-1939, 1940–44, 1946–49, 1952, 1960, 1967.
In 1938, she showed two wooden sculptures: Madonna and Medieval Maiden at the Sculptor's Society of Canada Exhibition.