Jackson, a founding member of the Group of Seven Canadian landscape painters who also created some of the most striking paintings from Flanders during the First World War, likened it to a New Deal-style jobs program for Canada’s struggling artists in the 1930s and ’40s.Īrtist A. The Sampson-Matthews Print Program brought oil-silkscreen pictures of Canada to army barracks, air-force bases, mess halls and training camps in Canada and Europe to remind servicemen and women of home.Ī.Y. One such plan that almost faded away in eight decades of history is getting a revival this month in Winnipeg.

Like many Canadians who were not on the front lines during the Second World War though, artists found ways to do their part in the war effort that went beyond purchasing Victory Bonds or rationing sugar and flour.

Free Press 101: How we practise journalismĬanada’s artists didn’t leap from landing craft onto Juno Beach nor did they incur heavy casualties at Ortona or on supply ships during the Battle of the Atlantic.

The Early Years is curated by gallery Senior Partner Bellatrix Hubert and Ginny Neel.ġ Alice Neel, quoted in “The Art of Portraiture, in the Words of Four New York Artists,” The New York Times (October 31, 1976), p. At turns atmospheric, somber, and deeply personal, these works offer a chronological account of this significant period of Neel’s life and work, and engage themes of interiority, intimacy, and the negotiation between private and public, which continue to resonate in our present moment.

On view at the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street location, the focused presentation centers on works from the 1930s through the 1950s, and includes interiors, memory paintings, New York City streetscapes, and portraits of family and others close to Neel.

I paint to try to reveal the struggle, tragedy and joy of life.ĭavid Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Alice Neel (1900–1984) from the first decades of the artist’s influential career.

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