EV Road Trip Day 48
Ottawa is a beautiful capital city. The historic buildings, museums, public art, vistas, rivers, outdoor markets, and parks make it among the most beautiful cities I have encountered. Today, we visited the National Gallery of Canada, specifically to see the exhibition: UNINVITED: CANADIAN WOMEN ARTISTS IN THE MODERN MOMENT.
“In the 1920s,’30s, and ’40s, the Canadian art world was in the thrall of the all-male painting collective The Group of Seven, widely celebrated for their depictions of dramatic and sensuously painted unpeopled landscapes,” added exhibition curator Sarah Milroy, Chief Curator at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. “But women artists of the day had other concerns: portraiture, city life, immigrant experience, social injustice, resource extraction, and the cultural ways of Indigenous peoples. Shown together in this exhibition, these works convey a vibrant picture of Canada in a period of sometimes overwhelming change, a complex story with multiple vantage points long obscured in the story of Canadian art.”
See: https://www.gallery.ca/.../uninvited-canadian-women...
We were all very impressed by the curation of this exhibition. It is one of the highlights of our trip.
Architecturally, the Museum itself, the indoor spaces, and especially the Boutique, are one of the best I have seen.
Afterwards, we enjoyed High Tea at Zoe’s at Chateau Laurier.
