Up Close and Personal:
Self Portraits by Women Artists
McMichael Virtual Speaker Series
Tuesday, January 11
7 pm (EST)
About the event
Join McMichael Chief Curator Sarah Milroy for a closing-week celebration of Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment (on view until January 16). Art historians Tobi Bruce, Tanya Harnett , Anna Hudson, Kristina Huneault and Georgiana Uhlyarik will discuss the self-portraits in Uninvited, sharing insights on these trailblazing statements of self from a century ago. Featuring works by Emily Carr, Prudence Heward, Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Paraskeva Clark, and Mrs Walking Sun.
Paraskeva Clark (1898–1986), Self-Portrait, 1931–32, oil on cardboard, 41 x 31 cm, Collection of Museum London, Ontario, Purchased 1994, 94.A.36, © Estate of Paraskeva Clark
Suzanne Duquet (1916–2000), Group, 1941, oil on canvas, 127 × 149.8 cm, Collection of the Musée national des beauxarts du Québec, Gift of the artist, 1996.94, Photo: MNBAQ, Jean-Guy Kerouac, © Estate of the artist
Emily Carr (1871–1945), Self-portrait, 1938–1939, oil on wove paper, mounted on plywood, 85.5 × 57.7 cm, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Gift of Peter Bronfman, 1990
