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The Practice of Her Profession

Florence Carlyle, Canadian Painter in the Age of Impressionism

by (author) Susan Butlin

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2009
Category
General, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773535091
    Publish Date
    Mar 2009
    List Price
    $55.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773578487
    Publish Date
    Mar 2009
    List Price
    $55.00

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Description

In The Practice of Her Profession, Susan Butlin draws on unpublished letters and family memoirs to recount Carlyle's personal and professional life. She explores Carlyle's artistic influences, her relationships with artist colleagues and encounters with the cultural worlds of Paris, New York, and early twentieth-century Canada, and provides a detailed examination of Carlyle's paintings. Butlin's vivid description of the artistic life of women of this era, from access to art training to the important role of women's art societies, introduces readers to Carlyle's many accomplished contemporaries - Helen McNicoll, Mary Reid, Laura Muntz, Sarah Holden, Sydney Tully, Elizabeth McGillivray Knowles, and others.

About the author

Susan Butlin holds a doctorate from Carleton University where she has taught art history.

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