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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.

Cost: $10 plus processing fee (General Public), FREE (McMichael Members)
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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