Lot 69
ANNE DOUGLAS SAVAGE
Provenance:
Private Collection, Toronto.
Literature:
Anne McDougall, Anne Savage: The Story of a Canadian Painter, Montreal, 1977, page 47.
Note:
McDougall writes that, “while the men in the Group of Seven were tracking the hills of Lake Superior, camping and roughing it among flaming maples and the desolate scrub of the north, the women of Montreal were painting, naturally enough, much gentler things: interiors with glimpses of the old city through a window, flower studies, Sherbrooke Street through a grey mist with the horses and caleches drawn up in a row, the rolling and yellow and mauve hills of the Eastern Townships, blue and white Quebec villages, and Laurentian spruce and clumps of elm.
If you put paintings by Anne Savage, Emily Coonan, Prudence Heward, Sarah Robertson, Mabel H. May, Mabel Lockerby, Nora Collyer, Lilias Torrence Newton, Ethel Seath and Kay Morris all together you get a ‘Montreal look.’ If it is a look of colour and mood; much of it comes from the French details: outside staircases, wide balconies, nuns strolling in a convent garden, baskets of pink geraniums, a wayside shrine. It is a look quite different from anything else painted in Canada.”