McMichael Canadian Art Collection unveils “Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment” Featuring an Essay by Gerald McMaster.

McMichael Canadian Art Collection unveils “Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment” Featuring an Essay by Gerald McMaster.

A monument to the talent of Canadian women artists in the interwar period, the Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment publication provides a full and diverse cross-country survey of the art made by women during this pivotal time, incorporating the work of both settler and Indigenous visual artists in a stirring affirmation of the female creative voice.

This volume is edited by McMichael Chief Curator Sarah Milroy and, in addition to an essay by Gerald McMaster, includes a contribution on the artistic legacy of Paraskeva Clark by Panya Clark Espinal, an alumni researcher of Wapatah: Centre for Indigenous Visual Culture.

Available for purchase from McMichael here.

Exhibition at a Glance

Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment is a major exhibition of Canadian women artists at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection that coincides with, and offers commentary on, the centenary celebration of the Group of Seven. The exhibition will gather more than 200 pieces of art by a generation of extraordinary women painters, photographers, sculptors, architects and filmmakers from a century ago — pioneers who opened new frontiers for women artists in Canada – as well as works made by their Indigenous female contemporaries working in traditional media, for a cross-country snapshot of female creativity in this dynamic modern moment.

For the first time, the art of the famed Beaver Hall Group of painters from Montreal (among them Anne Savage and Lilias Torrance Newton) will be shown alongside the paintings of Emily Carr from British Columbia, and sculptures by Toronto artists Elizabeth Wyn Wood, Frances Loring, and Florence Wyle.

The exhibition also includes the contributions of women from immigrant communities in this period, such as the painters Regina Seiden and Paraskeva Clark, as well as the work of Canadian expatriates like the avant-garde photographer Margaret Watkins, who left her home in Hamilton for the US and Scotland. The work of Indigenous women in this period is also featured prominently, including Attatsiaq from Arviat, Nunavut; Elizabeth Katt Petrant from Bear Island, Temagami; and Mrs. Walking Sun from the Carry the Kettle Reserve in Southern Saskatchewan.

Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment is curated by McMichael Chief Curator Sarah Milroy and is made possible with the generous support of presenting sponsor BMO and the McMichael Women’s Art Council.

       
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