Season’s Greetings in Canada : Gender and Nationalism in Rous and Mann, Limited’s Canadian Artists Series Christmas Cards, 1923-1929

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Season’s Greetings in Canada : Gender and Nationalism in Rous and Mann, Limited’s Canadian Artists Series Christmas Cards, 1923-1929
Abstract
The author investigates the contribution of Montreal women artists to the Canadian Artists Series of Christmas cards between 1923 and 1929, printed by Rous and Mann Ltd. in Toronto. She notes that this promotional project for Canadian art provides a forum through which to examine avenues of access afforded women in fine art and commercial art, women’s negotiation of social barriers and the effect of these restrictions on their subject matter. The author explains that the Christmas card market was dominated by women consumers and led the male Group of Seven artists central to the national art movement in English Canada to domesticate their wilderness landscapes into the cultural landscapes typical of women’s and Quebec regionalist art, despite the peripheral position of both to the art canon in Toronto. She concludes that despite women’s dominance of the market, the careers of these women artists were advanced through contacts with the Group of Seven, A.Y. Jackson and Rous and Mann.
Type
Master's Thesis
University
Carleton University
Place
Ottawa, ON
Date
2006
# of Pages
xiv-162p.
Language
en
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Citation
Sinclair, Catherine. “Season’s Greetings in Canada : Gender and Nationalism in Rous and Mann, Limited’s Canadian Artists Series Christmas Cards, 1923-1929.” Master’s Thesis, Carleton University, 2006. https://curve.carleton.ca/702fb01c-a854-48c1-9fdd-8924b1617bb6.
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