Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc.’s 1999 annual loan exhibition honoured the achievements of the Beaver Hall Group women painters Emily Coonan, Nora Collyer, Prudence Heward, Mabel Lockerby, Mabel May, Kathleen Moir Morris, Lilias Torrance Newton, Sarah Robertson, Anne Savage, and Ethel Seath. The exhibition was originally launched in conjunction with the release of Dr. Barbara Meadowcroft’s Painting Friends: The Beaver Hall Women Painters.
Our family is committed to supporting the Beaver Hall Women and has hosted individual retrospectives for many of the artists as part of our broader efforts to help enhance the public recognition of these underappreciated artists.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the exhibition, and to reaffirm our family’s commitment to promoting the legacy of these artists, we are relaunching the exhibition virtually. This initiative draws from our archives, incorporating the original photographs and titles assigned at the time. Many of the paintings viewed here have not been exhibited publicly since 1999.
Alan Klinkhoff Gallery specializes in the purchase, sale and appraisal of works by members of the Beaver Hall Group. Paintings available for sale by Nora Collyer and Mabel May are featured at the end of this presentation. Contact us today for a complimentary consultation.
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Many of those [Beaver Hall] artists had never been given their due until the Klinkhoff shows. [...] The idea behind these exhibitions [was] to take a look at a Quebec artist who has either slipped from public view or to pay tribute to an artist who never received the recognition that he or she should have received in the first place. Through these exhibitions, the Klinkhoffs have spearheaded a resurgence of interest in the women artists of the Beaver Hall Hill Group with retrospectives of the work of Anne Savage, Prudence Heward, Sarah Robertson, Ethel Seath and Mabel Lockerby.
Anne Duncan, "The Montreal Gazette", September 18, 1993, J5. -
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My involvement in the retrospectives of Mabel Lockerby (1989) and Sarah Robertson (1991) at the Walter Klinkhoff Gallery convinced me of the need for a book on these painters.
Dr. Barbara Meadowcroft, "Painting Friends: The Beaver Hall Women Painters" (Montreal: Véhicule Press, 1999), 18. -
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Available Artworks by Beaver Hall Women
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Nora CollyerTrafalgar Day, Place Jacques Cartier, MontrealOil on board10 1/2 x 8 5/8 inNora Collyer was the youngest of the ten women artists known today as the Beaver Hall Group. She shared a studio with fellow member Anne Savage at 305 Beaver Hall Hill from 1921 to 1923. Collyer studied art with William Brymner and Maurice Cullen at the Art Association of Montreal. She taught art at Trafalgar School for Girls and offered private lessons from her studio on Elm Street. Collyer primarily painted still lifes from her studio or landscapes in the vicinity of Montreal, where she...
26.8 x 22 cm$20,000Nora Collyer was the youngest of the ten women artists known today as the Beaver Hall Group. She shared a studio with fellow member Anne Savage at 305 Beaver Hall Hill from 1921 to 1923. Collyer studied art with William Brymner and Maurice Cullen at the Art Association of Montreal. She taught art at Trafalgar School for Girls and offered private lessons from her studio on Elm Street. Collyer primarily painted still lifes from her studio or landscapes in the vicinity of Montreal, where she... -
H. Mabel MayStill Life with FruitOil on board17 x 23 inThis Still Life with Fruit lends itself to being demonstrative of the story of the Beaver Hall Group women. The convention for a women to stay close to home to find subject matter leads her no farther than the kitchen and dining room, as opposed to “the boys” heading out in the boxcar to Algoma. Her bold and strong colours certainly position May as a modern in Canadian art. Mabel May is perhaps best known as a founding member of Montreal’s Beaver Hall Group....
43.2 x 58.4 cm$25,000This Still Life with Fruit lends itself to being demonstrative of the story of the Beaver Hall Group women. The convention for a women to stay close to home to find subject matter leads her no farther than the kitchen and dining room, as opposed to “the boys” heading out in the boxcar to Algoma. Her bold and strong colours certainly position May as a modern in Canadian art. Mabel May is perhaps best known as a founding member of Montreal’s Beaver Hall Group....
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