Rody Kenny Courtice

[1] Courtice was a librarian at the Ontario College of Art from 1925 to 1926, and for ten years, was assistant instructor for children's classes with Lismer.

[1] Courtice was first married to Henry Lloyd Hammond, a lieutenant in the Royal Air Force who was killed in action on 4 August 1918.

[4] Yvonne McKague Housser remembers going with Courtice on a sketching trip in the north where they could not find any scenery that interested them.

Courtice contributed illustrations to The Kingdom of Saguenay (1936) by Marius Barbeau, as did A. Y. Jackson, George Pepper, Kathleen Daly, Peter Haworth, Bobs Cogill Haworth, André Charles Biéler, Arthur Lismer, Gordon Edward Pfeiffer, Yvonne McKague and Albert Edward Cloutier.

[6] She accompanied Housser and Isabel McLaughlin on trips to locations such as Cobalt, Gowganda, Nipissing and Kirkland Lake in the 1930s, where they painted industrial subjects.

A review of the work by the Canadian Group of Painters at the 1939 World's Fair said:"These ... are vital and young and imaginative ...

Some of the artists are rather more expressionistic ... still others are more interested in highly inventive sophisticated pattern, among them Rody Kenny Courtice with his [sic] Just Cows, or in near-primitive fantasy, like Paraskeva Clark.

[12] In 1998, Courtice was one of the four artists in 4 Women Who Painted in the 1930s and 1940s, curated by Alicia Boutilier for the Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa.