Lot 106
HENRIETTA MABEL MAY, A.R.C.A.
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Provenance:
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
Private Collection, Toronto
Literature:
Evelyn Walters, The Women of Beaver Hall: Canadian Modernist Painters, Dundurn, Toronto, 2005, page 67.
Note:
A charter member of the Beaver Hall Hill Group, Henrietta Mabel May spent the longest period of her artistic career in Montreal and Ottawa. The group was composed of mostly female students from the school at the Art Association of Montreal. Members painted subjects at hand: family members, friends, cityscapes and country landscapes while on summer holiday. May exhibited with the Group of Seven before becoming a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters.
The Motherhouse depicts the home of the Order of Sisters of Charity of Montreal, which was founded in 1871. Designed by the preeminent Quebec architect Victor Bourgeau, the former Motherhouse now belongs to Concordia University and was designated a National Historic Site in 2011.