ABSTRACT
H. Mabel May (1877-1971) - The Montreal Years:
1909-1938
Karen Antaki
1992
This thesis examines the work produced by the Montreal
painter Henrietta Mabel May (1877-1971) from 1909 until 1938, and the context within which
her art developed. May was among a small number of Canadian women artists of the early
decades of the twentieth century whose non-traditional commitment to their craft
transcended academic principles, winning critical respect and contributing to the
emergence of a Canadian modernism. The work she produced during this period affords us a
compelling re-view of the appropriation of new pictorial vocabularies in Montreal, and
consequently assumes a new significance.
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