For art's sake

Posted by Sonya Procenko

Canadian female artists faced many challenges early in the twentieth century. Many expressed themselves in a "way that was responsive to the modern world and to currents in art," says Vancouver Art Gallery.
That's the background of the gallery's new exhibition Canadian Women Modernists: The Dialogue with Emily Carr covering six decades from 1900 to approximately 1960.

"This exhibition places Carr's accomplishment within the larger context of modernism as practiced by women in this country and illustrates how artists were both influenced by and reacted against her work," says the gallery. The exhibition presents the work of Emily Carr and other Canadian figures including Irene Hoffar Reid, Molly Lamb Bobak, Ghitta Caiserman Roth, Vera Weatherbie, Lilias Farley, Bess Harris, Jori Smith, Joyce Wieland and Beatrice Lennie.

When: Until September 28/08
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street, Vancouver
Information: Go Online, Call 604-662-4719

Photo courtesy of Emily Carr, Red Cedar, 1931
courtesy of Vancouver Art Gallery

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