Emily Coonan’s approach to the figure, particularly as evidenced in her early work, is remarkable for its richly evocative character.

Of the Beaver Hall Group women who maintained their friendship for the better part of 30 years, [Sarah Robertson] was conceivably the least prolific, making fine paintings by her especially rare and precious for Beaver Hall Group collectors.

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...