Lot 122: Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on

Anne Douglas Savage 1896 - 1971 Canadian oil on board Summer 23 1/2 x 30 inches 59.7 x 76.2 centimeters signed Literature:Anne McDougall, Anne Savage: The Story of a Canadian Painter, 1977, pages 42, 44 and 47 Provenance:A gift from the Artist to Baron Byng High School, Montreal The PSBGM Cultural Heritage Foundation Anne McDougall writes, "Her paintings...like those of the others in the Beaver Hall group, show the influence of the Impressionists, an influence which Morrice and others had brought late to Canada but which was considered very much avant-garde in households still hanging copies of old European masters - 'the Dutch gravy school', [A.Y.] Jackson called them." In late January of 1921, an article in La Presse included the name Anne Savage in a list of 20 painters that the author considered comparable to the "Indépendants de Paris" (Société des Artistes Indépendants). Along with that of Prudence Heward, Adam Sherriff Scott, Edwin Holgate and the others listed, Savage's work was, for Canadian eyes, a marked change from the mainstream. In describing Savage's work, her biographer McDougall, when writing of Savage's membership in the short-lived Beaver Hall group, states, "They were like a flurry of bright butterflies settling on a rock for a brief time, then off on their own ways."" Bright and delicate, and when considered in contrast to the "Dutch gravy" works that were the object of Jackson's ire, Savage's works are butterflies indeed.