Artworks

In 1993, in the catalogue Rediscovering Jori Smith, Dr. Meadowcroft shed light on a possible reason for the engagement with child portraiture, taking L. Le Marchand’s speculation one step further by saying that:

She says that she painted children because the mothers were too busy to sit with her. Maybe so; but Smith has gone on painting children in Montreal, Paris; she is still painting children. In my opinion she is drawn to the subject partly because, like a child, she lives in the “now” and partly because she recalls vividly the loneliness and emotional deprivation of her own childhood. The little girls in Smith’s painting already know their lot as women.” [1]

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[1] Cara Tierney, “Jori Smith: A Contextual Analysis” (Master’s thesis, Carleton University, 2004), 85.
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