PROVENANCE
Famille de l’artiste
Beaux-arts canadiens, Maison de vente aux enchères Heffel, 24 novembre 2011, lot 189
A.K. Prakash & Associates, Toronto
Collection privée, Ontario
Art canadien, impressionniste et moderne, Maison de vente aux enchères d’œuvres d’art Heffel, 20 novembre 2019, lot 138, intitulé « Scène de ferme, Brockville »
Collection privée, Vancouver

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Evelyn Walters, Les femmes de Beaver Hall : les peintres modernistes canadiens, 2005, pages 49 et 51
A.K. Prakash, Independent Spirit : Early Canadian Women Artists, 2008, une discussion sur l’œuvre de l’artiste, pages 96 à 103

Prudence Heward was a member of Montreal’s Beaver Hall Group, formed in 1920, and was known for both her strong figurative works and her landscapes. In the late 1920s and 1930s, modernist influences appeared in her work, which exhibited a bold sense of form and a rich colour palette. Art historian Paul Duval called her “one of the most sensitive painters this country has known” and Group of Seven painter A.Y. Jackson stated, “In my opinion, she was the very best painter we ever had in Canada…I wanted her to join the Group of Seven, but like the Twelve Apostles, no women were included.” However, she was invited to show with them in 1928, to critical acclaim. In 1948, Heward was honoured with a memorial exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada.

Heward often painted at her family’s summer place in Fernbank, near Brockville. In this outstanding painting, strongly modeled buildings create a looming, still presence animated by the waiting horse and cart and the stream of smoke. Light and dark contrasts invigorate the scene, with the bright yellow of the cart lighting a vivacious colour spark.

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