A BEAVER HALL MOMENT

2020 is the centenary of the founding of the Beaver Hall Group.
Let's celebrate their contribution to Canadian Modernism!

BEAVER HALL MOMENTS

JOHN YOUNG JOHNSTONE

Look again. 1. "Arrière-cour d'une vieille maison de la rue Saint-Vincent, Montréal”, c. 1919, by John Young Johnstone, at MNBAQ 2."Old Court Yard, St-Vincent Street", 1920, by John Young Johnstone.

EDWIN HOLGATE

"Portrait of Jackrabbit, (The Skier)," c.1936, by Edwin Holgate (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts). Jackrabbit, Holgate's friend, cut the first cross-country ski trails in the Laurentians.

MABEL LOCKERBY

“Marie and Minou” by Mabel Lockerby which received honourable mention in the Willingdon Arts Competition and in 1929 was acquired by the National Gallery. Governor General Jeanne Sauve personally chose it for her official residence.

EDWIN HOLGATE

“Contemplation”, 2006, Canadian postage stamp by Edwin Holgate. In 1946, feeling out of touch with the new generation of artists, he left Montreal for Morin Heights, a village in the Laurentians, where he painted and gave art lessons.

PRUDENCE HEWARD

"The Skier", c.1939, (University of Toronto) by Prudence Heward. Unconstrained by financial need, she could choose not to flatter her subjects and rarely identify them, often referring to them as her "figures" rather than "portraits".

A.Y. JACKSON

“Père Raquette”, c.1921, (McMichael) by A.Y. Jackson who was poking fun at the nickname first given to him by Edwin Holgate because of his insistence on using old-fashioned snowshoes rather than skis.

LILIAS TORRANCE NEWTON

"Self Portrait", c. 1929, by Lilias Torrance Newton, one of Canada's most successful portrait painters who died on January 10, 1980. Ahead of her time, she married provided that she could spend three months of each year studying in Paris, divorced when it was frowned upon, and raised a child on her own.

REGINA SEIDEN (GOLDBERG)

“Dora”, c.1923, (NGC), by Regina Seiden (Goldberg) a founding member of the Beaver Hall Group who died on January 11, 1991. She gave up her career when she married artist Eric Goldberg: “I only blame myself. I just wanted to live for him.”