Evelyn Walters’ expertise on the Beaver Hall Group grew out of research for her art collection and doctoral thesis. She is the author of The Women of Beaver Hall: Canadian Modernist Painters (Dundurn 2005), one of the first books to be written on the Beaver Hall Group, and The Beaver Hall Group and Its Legacy (Dundurn 2017). Look for her latest book Prudence Heward: Canadian Modernist Painter to be released in September 2021.
You might want to have a look at the nudes in The Beaver Hall Group and Its Legacy.
Today it is difficult to imagine that at the time they caused such a stir. It was not only their Modernist style, but also their “unbridled sexuality.” Several Beaver Hall artists dared to break academic tradition, which required that the nude be idealized and set in a landscape to counter any sensuality or eroticis
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