Lot 50
HENRIETTA MABEL MAY, A.R.C.A.
Provenance:
Dominion Gallery, Montreal.
Literature:
Evelyn Walters, The Women of Beaver Hall, Canadian Modernist Painters, Toronto, 2005, page 67 and page 68, colour plate, for Melting Snow.
Note:
A founding member of the Beaver Hall Group, throughout her life May maintained a close friendship with her mentor, A.Y. Jackson. Their friendship never ceased and they remained a constant source of support and inspiration for each other. Her landscapes reveal the influence of the Group of Seven.
In 1929 May received honourable mention in the National Gallery of Canada’s prestigious Willingdon Arts Competition for a work entitled Melting Snow (circa 1925) which depicts a scene not unlike Road on the Mountain. Walters writes that at this stage of May’s career, “Her mature works become increasingly more linear, rhythmical, and simplified in colour.”
Property of the Montefiore Club, Montreal
Sold to Benefit the Jewish Community Foundation, Montreal