The Women of Beaver Hall: Canadian Modernist Painters

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Dundurn, Nov 12, 2005 - Art - 191 pages

Ten women artists, counterparts of the Group of Seven, are finally being given their due. Long overlooked by critics and historians, they are today amongst the most sought-after Canadian painters. The Beaver Hall Group ventured into a male-dominated art world, lived remarkable lives, and produced exceptional work.

This beautifully produced book portrays the life and work of Emily Coonan, Nora Collyer, Prudence Heward, Mabel Lockerby, Mabel May, Sarah Robertson, Anne Savage, and Ethel Seath. Long-lost catalogues, old newspaper reviews, and personal papers document their story, and more than 60 reproductions bring to light paintings that have lain hidden for more than fifty years.

 

Contents

Acknowledgements
9
Introduction
11
Nora Collyer 18981979
21
Emily Coonan 18851971
27
Prudence Heward 18961947
37
Mabel Lockerby 18821976
53
Henrietta Mabel May 18771971
61
Kathleen Morris 18931986
73
Lilias Torrance Newton 18961980
81
Sarah Robertson 18911948
93
Anne Savage 18961971
101
Ethel Seath 18791963
111
ChronologyExhibitions
119
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About the author (2005)

Evelyn Walters' expertise on the Beaver Hall Group is an outgrowth of her 1990 doctoral thesis and of research for a personal art collection. After teaching in France and then Montreal, she recently moved to Toronto, where she has spent the past few years exploring the Toronto art scene.

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