Lot 3
ISABEL MCLAUGHLIN, O.S.A
Literature:
Joan Murray, Isabel McLaughlin: Recollections, Oshawa, 1983, pages 11 and 20 and page 93 for a work entitled Fish Having Fun, reproduced.
Note:
Joan Murray describes McLaughlin as “one of the most important modernists in this country.” Mentored by Arthur Lismer and Lawren Harris, McLaughlin eventually developed an approach to creating that was independent of the influence of these two giants of Canadian art. “I got going in my way”, she said. Happy Days, probably executed in the late 1940s / early 1950s, affirms this shift toward something more uniquely her own - something happier, simpler, freer and more rhythmic.