An exploration into Montreal’s Beaver Hall Group and its legacy of women painters who now rank among Canada’s most outstanding artists. Today it is difficult to imagine that the art of Montreal’s Beaver Hall Group was once shocking. As these Modernists struggled against academic art, critics such as Samuel Morgan-Powell ranted – “rough,” “meaningless” “blatant plastering and massing of unpleasant colours in weird landscapes” – and likened their paintings to the “cacophonous riot of metallic...
