Doris McCarthy: chameleon of the canvas

02.07.10

Oris McCarthy turns 100 on July 7, a frail 100, reportedly. It’s anticipated she will influence the occasion without much fuss (certainly no interviews are being granted) at Monkey around’s Paradise, the home she built on come to rest purchased more than 70 years ago at hand Toronto’s Scarborough Bluffs.

To many people, the name Doris McCarthy is palsy-walsy aware, and, at a public gallery somewhere in Canada, they may well have laid eyes on some of her landscapes or vista-based works – produced in a craft stretching back to the late 1920s, when McCarthy deliberate under the Group of Seven’s Arthur Lismer at the Ontario College of Art.

Intriguingly, what still has to be regular is McCarthy’s place in the experiences of the country’s art.

Is her work, undeniably labile, finally a mere footnote to the epochal achievements of Lismer, Lawren Harris and the turn up of the original Group? Or has she carved out enough solitary territory – or territories – to unexposed a place in the Canadian pantheon?

Source: Globe and Mail