Title
unknown (Woman in Blue) (detail), n.d., Beaverbrook Art
Gallery
Learn to Look at Women's Portraits
Anthony Flower & Mary Pratt
Click on image for complete view
Click on image for complete view
ANTHONY FLOWER Mary Green Born 1794, Wife of Anthony Flower Born 1792, 1867
watercolour on paper
Collection of the New Brunswick Museum
MARY PRATT Cold Cream, 1983
pencil and oil on masonite
The Beaverbrook Art Gallery
What we see
How would you describe these two paintings
to someone who cannot see them?
How we feel
What do you notice that is different about
these two paintings?
What we think
Would you want to be painted like either
of these women?
How it was made
Do you think these paintings show women
as they really are? Did each artist try to paint women as
they are or as they would like them to be? Which artist
has a sense of humour?
About the artist
Mary Pratt (b. 1935) was born and
raised in Fredericton and remembers being very excited when
the Beaverbrook Art Gallery opened and she saw real art
for the first time. Her work focuses on the lives of women
and the family. She takes photographs of scenes she would
like to paint and later spends months working on each painting.
Mary has spent most of her life working in Newfoundland.
