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Anne Savage was a Canadian painter associated with the Group of Seven. The group notoriously never allowed women into their famous entourage. Member of a large and closely-knit family, Savage grew up in then-rural Dorval, Quebec, and spent her summers in the Laurentians, which instilled in her a love of the country.
She studied art at the Art Association of Montreal and was taught by William Brymner and Maurice Cullen, two important Canadian impressionist artists. She became known for her lyrical and rhythmic landscapes.
In 1921, Savage and others founded the Beaver Hall Group, a Montreal-based group of Canadian painters who met in the late 1910s while studying art at a school run by the Art Association of Montreal. The Group is notable for its equal inclusion of men and women artists, as well as for its embrace of Jazz Age modernism. They painted a variety of subjects, including portraits, landscapes, urban scenes and still lifes, in a mix of Modernist and traditional styles.
The works by the women in the Beaver Hall Group were seen by feminist art historians as a counterpoint to the "macho ‘bushwhacking' that surrounded the Group of Seven. The vision of nature espoused by Savage and her colleagues (including Mabel Lockerby, Mabel May, Kathleen Morris and Sarah Robertson) is often seen as contributing to the creation of an idyllic image of the Québec countryside, to the extent where it has often been equated with a nostalgic form of regionalism.
Anne Savage: The Story of a Canadian Painter, by Anne McDougall
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Emily Carr was one of the preeminent Canadian painters of the first half of the 20th century. She is regarded in the same esteem as the Group of Seven. Carr is remembered primarily for her painting. She was one of the first artists to attempt to capture the spirit of Canada in a modern style. She was one of the only major female artists of the period in North America or Europe. Someone believe she was the most original. She is known for her bold depictions of nature and for images of the indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Walter Keane was the most celebrated artist in America.
In the 1960s, Keane became one of the most popular and commercially successful artists of the time. Andy Warhol said "I think what Keane has done is just terrific. It has to be good. If it were bad, so many people wouldn't like it."