Painting friends: the Beaver Hall women painters
Biographies, Beaux-arts (biographies), Femmes (biographies), Canadiens (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens
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Résumé
10 women met at a Montreal art school in the early part of the 20th century, and soon decided to form a group and function as professional painters. Much like the Group of Seven, with whom the Beaver Hall Hill… Group exhibited in the 1920s and '30s, Emily Coonan, Prudence Heward, Mabel Lockerby and the rest of the group worked successfully both in Canada and internationally, though their story has been overlooked by art historians until recently. The author demonstrates how the support the women gave each other was essential to their success in the male-dominated art world, and discusses their paintings in the context of the social and political circumstances of the period. 1999.