ABSTRACT
Canada's First Professional Women Painters,
1890-1914: Their Reception in Canadian Writing on the Visual Arts
Anne Mandely Page
1991
Since the modern feminist movement of the seventies,
critics and art historians alike have reassessed the place held by women artists and the
significance of their works. An abundance of European and North American literature has
been dedicated to the topic. However, within this literature little attention has yet to
be paid to the first wave of professionally-trained Canadian women painters who were
active between 1890-1914. The major aim of this thesis is to establish the degree to which
writing on Canadian art has acknowledged the achievements of this important group of women
and what remains to be done to present a balanced picture of the development of Canadian
art that gives an appropriate place to such artists as Florence Carlyle, Mary Ella Dignam,
Mary Bell Eastlake, Mary Riter Hamilton, Elizabeth McGillivray Knowles, Laura Muntz Lyall,
Helen Galloway McNicol, Sophia Pemberton, Mary Hiester Reid and Mary Evelyn Wrinch.
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