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| Title: | Women of Beaver Hall
: Canadian Modernist Painters |
| Author: | Evelyn Walters PhD |
| ISBN: | 1550025880 : 9781550025880 |
| Illustrations: | 65 colour plates |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 250x250mm |
| Pages: | 192 |
| Weight: | 1 Kg. |
| Published: | Dundurn Press - October 2005 |
| List Price: | 30 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | History of art & design styles: from c1900-: Womens studies: Canada |
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 over 60 reprodwctions bring to light paintings that have lain hidden for more than fifty years.
"Striding far beyond the narrow borders usually associated with coffee tables, The Women of Beaver Hall is at once exposition, homage and feminist celebration of 10 remarkable artists. That last is not meant as some agenda-driven political claim. Some of the women, who lived roughly from 1880 to 1980, might have recoiled slightly at feminist labelling. They were, after all, products of their time, place and social circumstances. But there is no doubt that, in the broadest sense of the word, they were indeed feminists. They broke barriers and thumbed their noses at convention. They pioneered. They defiantly made art as women in an art world dominated by men. Walters...writes with clarity and concise readability as she brings these extraordinary women to life. Her uncluttered introduction describes the birth of the Montreal group and places it in context. That is followed by 10 brief but enlightening biographical sketches, each one accompanied by several rich sample reproductions of the artist's work. It is a clean, straightforward approach, perfect as a kind of primer to introduce a group of artists and a body of work to whole new generations of potential enthusiasts." -- Janice Kennedy, Ottawa Citizen, January 24th, 2006.
