1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group

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1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group
Abstract
The Beaver Hall Group was an assemblage of mostly middle-class Anglophone Montreal painters in the early 1920s, half of whom were female, that shared a studio at 305 Beaver Hall Hill. Ten of the best-known female members of the Beaver Hall Group were Nora Collyer (1898-1979), Emily Coonan (1885-1971), Prudence Heward (1896-1947), Mabel Lockerby Mabel May (1882-1976), Kathleen Morris (1893-1986), Lilias Torrance Newton (1896-1980), Sarah Robertson (1891-1948), Anne Savage (1896-1971) and Ethel Seath (1879-1963). Among the better-known male members of the group were A.Y. Jackson (1882-1974), Edwin Holgate (1892-1977), Randolph Hewton (1888-1960) and Adrien Hébert (1890-1967). The group officially lasted from 1920 to 1923, when they gave up the studio on Beaver Hall Hill, but they remained in close contact. Members of the group were instrumental in the founding of the national Canadian Group of Painters in 1933. The Beaver Hall Group's modernist approach to painting focused on portraitures and humanized cityscapes and landscapes. This book accompanied a touring exhibition of the works of the Beaver Hall Group, curated by its editors.
Place
Montreal
Publisher
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Date
2015
Language
en
Notes

Also available in French under the title: Une modernité des années 1920 à Montréal: Le Groupe de Beaver Hall.

Citation
Des Rochers, Jacques, and Brian Foss, eds. 1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group. Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2015.
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