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Out of storage! "Defying Convention: Women Artists in Canada, 1900-1960”. Thirty women of the Modernist period in Canada who challenged artistic conventions and defied constraints after the Victorian era.https://t.co/drdzamnnl8
“Sarah Eliot”,1945, by Prudence Heward. The Eliots owned a cottage next door to the Hewards at Fernbank. More: #TheWomenofBeaverHall, p.37.
Two members of the #BeaverHallGroup were born in Scotland: James Crockart and Adam Sherriff Scott.
Closing time. “Autumn Landscape”, c.1950, by Anne Savage: Historic & Post War Canadian Art at Madrona Gallery https://t.co/eDjd7w1mkS #BeaverHallGroup
William Thurston Topham died on this day in 1966. During the Depression he earned $400. painting a mural for the #MountRoyalChalet, part of a make-work project with
his former #BeaverHall colleagues.
For your list. A matching set of #BeaverHall books: The Women of Beaver Hall and The Beaver Hall Group and Its Legacy. Available online and at your favourite book store. #Canadianart
Kathleen Moir Morris, one of the Women of #BeaverHall, was born on this day in 1893. (d.1986). Card design:
Georgia O’Keeffe, contemporary of the #BeaverHallGroup, was born on this day in 1887 (d.1986). Image: Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico.
“I feel cheated with my education because I was limited to only the Group of Seven, not to diminish their contribution to the art world but the Beaver Hall Group was just as important”, Nicole Mulder. https://t.co/mXdY7MxrHi
Back to #TheStudy? #BeaverHall’s Ethel Seath was the school’s art teacher for 45 years. "The Gardener’s House”, c.1930, now at the NGC.