1920s modernism in Montreal : the Beaver Hall Group

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The Beaver Hall Group: 1920s Modernism in Monreal portrays the work of the Montreal-based group of Canadian painters, the Beaver Hall Group. This twentieth-century collective was long overlooked by critics and historians alike, but today counts many of its members amongst the most sought-after Canadian pain.

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ISBN:

9781908966933
1908966939

Description:

351 pages : colour illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Beaver Hall Group
Nineteen twenties modernism in Montreal

Notes:

Canadiana
Includes bibliographical references and an index
Also available in French under the title: Une modernité des années 1920 à Montréal : Le Groupe de Beaver Hall
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal, from 24 October 2015 to 31 January 2016, at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ont., from 20 February to 8 May 2016, at the Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ont., from 24 June to 2 October 2016, and the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, from 22 October 2016 to 29 January 2017

Contents:

The "hit-em-in-the-eye" school, or painters of "wall jazz"! / Nathalie Bondil
The Beaver Hall Group: a much anticipated re-reading / Jacques Des Rochers
Setting the stage: the emergence of the Beaver Hall Group / Jacques Des Rochers
Defining the Beaver Hall Group today / Jacques Des Rochers
The intersecting paths of budding artists / Hélène Sicotte
Out on the town: modernism, arts and entertainment in Montreal, 1920-33 / Brian Foss
The Beaver Hall Group: a Montreal modernity / Esther Trépanier
"As well as men": the gendering of Beaver Hall / Kristina Huneault
Biographies / Justine Lebeau

Control Number:

1715123

Other Authors:

Art Gallery of Hamilton (Ont.)
Art Gallery of Windsor
Bondil, Nathalie. Hit-em-in-the-eye school, or painters of wall jazz
Des Rochers, Jacques, editor
Foss, Brian, editor
Foss, Brian. Out on the town
Glenbow Museum
Huneault, Kristina. As well as men
Lebeau, Justine, contributor
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Sicotte, Hélène. Intersecting paths of budding artists
Trépanier, Esther, 1951- Beaver Hall Group

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