BEAVER HALL GROUP
2021 is the centenary of the first exhibition of the Beaver Hall Group.
Let's celebrate their contribution to Canadian Modernism!
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2021 is the centenary of the first exhibition of the Beaver Hall Group.
Let's celebrate their contribution to Canadian Modernism!
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Order online or pick up copies at your favourite bookstore. A perfect gift for both students and scholars of Canadian art, not to mention, two beautiful coffee-table books as well!
RESOURCES:
Why the Flapper Still Matters: Feminist Pedagogy, the Modern Girl, and the Women Artists of the Beaver Hall Group
Christina Ann Burr
Historical Studies in Education/ Revue d’histoire de l’éducation 29, 2, Fall/automne 2017
“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, p.113.
CANADIAN WOMEN MODERNISTS: THE DIALOGUE WITH EMILY CARR TEACHER’S STUDY GUIDE
Vancouver Art Gallery
Teacher’s Guide for School Programs
Explores some of the complexities of being a woman who participated in the Modernist movement in the first six decades of the twentieth century. Although each woman had her own individual style and stands on her own merit, each played an important role in the establishment of Modernist ideas in Canada.
CITY LIFE: GENDER, MODERNISM, and the CURIOUS LIFE and AFTERLIFE of the BEAVER HALL GROUP
Brian Foss presented "City Life: Gender, Modernism, and the Curious Life and Afterlife of the Beaver Hall Group." at Imagining History: A Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Conference, May 3-5 2012, Concordia University.
Foss is concerned that the women of the Group are now receiving all the attention, that we are once again guilty of exclusion. Ironical that, after well over a half century of neglect, there are now concerns that the women are overshadowing the men!
LEARNING RESOURCES
The Virtual Museum of Canada has an online learning centre for teachers and students. It provides access to museum collections in the form of digital learning resources created by educators and museum professionals. It is bilingual and is full of content from the fields of art, science, social studies and more.
Teachers:
Craft lesson plans by drawing from authoritative and copyright free texts, images, audio clips, animations and video clips of museums' treasures.
Students:
You're invited to learn, create and interact with your teacher and classmates in this secure, moderated and user-freindly domain.
Of special interest is the lesson plan Women Artists in North America: Land and Space which includes Anne Savage and Prudence Heward of the Beaver Hall Group.
ANNE SAVAGE: CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL
This website, devoted to the Beaver Hall Group's Anne Savage, is an excellent resource for students, researchers and collectors. Put together under the direction of Leah Sherman, the site includes archival documents, several images of works found in galleries across Canada , a slide library, a detailed bibliography and other background information.
CANADIAN PAINTING IN THE THIRTIES
CyberMuse, the National Gallery of Canada’s on-line research and educational website, has posted Canadian Painting in the Thirties which brings to life an important 1975 exhibition shown across the country about thirty three years ago. This study documents the development of Canadian modernist painting from the nationalism of early schools of landscape painting to the international trends of the 1940s. You can explore the cultural, social, economic and political factors that influenced artistic life in Canada during the thirties by browsing through archival images and documents. The exhibition catalogue, installation photographs, newspaper clippings, a film and interviews are some highlights of the collection. Look for the section on the Beaver Hall Group.
In addition to artworks featured in the original exhibition, Canadian Painting in the Thirties features many other related works from the National Gallery's collection.
CANADIAN WOMEN ARTISTS HISTORY INITIATIVE
Department of Art History
Concordia University, Montreal, QC
A collaborative endeavour that brings resources and researchers together in order to enhance scholarship on historical women artists in Canada . Included are Activities, Artists Database and a Documentation centre.
FILM: "BY WOMAN'S HAND"
A National Film Board documentary directed by Pepita Ferrari and Erna Duffie in 1994. A look at the life and times of three of the Women of Beaver Hall: Prudence Heward and two of her painting friends, Sarah Robertson and Anne Savage. (58 Min)
Why the Flapper Still Matters: Feminist Pedagogy, the Modern Girl, and the Women Artists of the Beaver Hall Group
Christina Ann Burr
Historical Studies in Education/ Revue d’histoire de l’éducation 29, 2, Fall/automne 2017
“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, p.113.
CANADIAN WOMEN MODERNISTS: THE DIALOGUE WITH EMILY CARR TEACHER’S STUDY GUIDE
Vancouver Art Gallery
Teacher’s Guide for School Programs
Explores some of the complexities of being a woman who participated in the Modernist movement in the first six decades of the twentieth century. Although each woman had her own individual style and stands on her own merit, each played an important role in the establishment of Modernist ideas in Canada.
CITY LIFE: GENDER, MODERNISM, and the CURIOUS LIFE and AFTERLIFE of the BEAVER HALL GROUP
Brian Foss presented "City Life: Gender, Modernism, and the Curious Life and Afterlife of the Beaver Hall Group." at Imagining History: A Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Conference, May 3-5 2012, Concordia University.
Foss is concerned that the women of the Group are now receiving all the attention, that we are once again guilty of exclusion. Ironical that, after well over a half century of neglect, there are now concerns that the women are overshadowing the men!
LEARNING RESOURCES
The Virtual Museum of Canada has an online learning centre for teachers and students. It provides access to museum collections in the form of digital learning resources created by educators and museum professionals. It is bilingual and is full of content from the fields of art, science, social studies and more.
Teachers:
Craft lesson plans by drawing from authoritative and copyright free texts, images, audio clips, animations and video clips of museums' treasures.
Students:
You're invited to learn, create and interact with your teacher and classmates in this secure, moderated and user-freindly domain.
Of special interest is the lesson plan Women Artists in North America: Land and Space which includes Anne Savage and Prudence Heward of the Beaver Hall Group.
ANNE SAVAGE: CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL
This website, devoted to the Beaver Hall Group's Anne Savage, is an excellent resource for students, researchers and collectors. Put together under the direction of Leah Sherman, the site includes archival documents, several images of works found in galleries across Canada , a slide library, a detailed bibliography and other background information.
CANADIAN PAINTING IN THE THIRTIES
CyberMuse, the National Gallery of Canada’s on-line research and educational website, has posted Canadian Painting in the Thirties which brings to life an important 1975 exhibition shown across the country about thirty three years ago. This study documents the development of Canadian modernist painting from the nationalism of early schools of landscape painting to the international trends of the 1940s. You can explore the cultural, social, economic and political factors that influenced artistic life in Canada during the thirties by browsing through archival images and documents. The exhibition catalogue, installation photographs, newspaper clippings, a film and interviews are some highlights of the collection. Look for the section on the Beaver Hall Group.
In addition to artworks featured in the original exhibition, Canadian Painting in the Thirties features many other related works from the National Gallery's collection.
CANADIAN WOMEN ARTISTS HISTORY INITIATIVE
Department of Art History
Concordia University, Montreal, QC
A collaborative endeavour that brings resources and researchers together in order to enhance scholarship on historical women artists in Canada . Included are Activities, Artists Database and a Documentation centre.
FILM: "BY WOMAN'S HAND"
A National Film Board documentary directed by Pepita Ferrari and Erna Duffie in 1994. A look at the life and times of three of the Women of Beaver Hall: Prudence Heward and two of her painting friends, Sarah Robertson and Anne Savage. (58 Min)
THE WOMEN OF BEAVER HALL: CANADIAN MODERNIST PAINTERS
Lavishly illustrated ... with a text suited to both the scholar and the general reader... sheds light on an unfortunately overlooked slice of Canadian cultural life ... a welcome book, and one that is long overdue. (The London Free Press)
DUNDURN PRESS
The Women of Beaver Hall: Canadian Modernist Painters
Nora Collyer Emily Coonan Prudence Heward Mabel Lockerby Henrietta Mabel May
Kathleen Morris Lilias Torrance Newton Sarah Robertson Anne Savage Ethel Seath
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