Whereas a commissioned portrait would imply certain restraints or inhibitions, insofar as Millette would have had neither the financial ability nor interest to commission her and more likely posed for her at the expense of the artist, Lilias Newton has accomplished for her own account a composition capturing the psychology...

Having just returned from attending three auction sales held over a period of less than one week when two of the three houses left their catalogue cover paintings unsold and the third, although not the cover picture, the lot anticipated to be the most costly offering, did not meet its...

The Duck Pond encapsulates Emily Coonan’s remarkable skill at conveying the essence of her chosen subject through a distilled and distinctive visual vocabulary. Stemming from the epoch of her professional debut, and possibly exhibited in the 1910 Spring Exhibition at the Art Association of Montreal, it is a small, spontaneously...