Edna Tacon

Gaiety, 1946

Oil on canvas board

23 x 17 inches

Provenance:

Private Collection, Toronto.

Exhibited:

Edna Tacon Contextualist, Chinese Gallery, New York 38 East 57th St.

Oct. 28th. - Nov. 16th. 1946. #18.

Twenty Paintings by Edna Tacon, Eatons, Toronto, Jan. 20th. - Feb. 1st. 1947.

New Perspectives on Modernism in Canada: Edna Tacon and Kathleen Munn, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Oct. 13th. - Nov. 13th.  1988; Art Gallery of Windsor, Dec. 10th. - Jan. 22nd. 1989; Concordia Art Gallery, Montreal, Feb. 23rd. - Apr. 8th. 1989; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Apr. 29th. - June 11th. 1989; McIntosh Gallery, London, July 16th. - Sept. 10th. 1989; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Sept. 30th. - Nov. 5th. 1989; The Robert Mclaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Jan. 4th. - Feb. 11th. 1990. #51.

Literature:

New Perspectives on Modernism in Canada: Edna Tacon and Kathleen Munn (Joyce Zemans, Elizabeth Burrell and Elizabeth Hunter), (Toronto: Art Gallery of York University, 1988). Exhibition catalogue, illustrated pg. 79.

Availability: SOLD

Biography:

Edna Tacon, O.S.A. 1913-1980. In 1941 Edna studied in NYC, she championed abstraction in Toronto from 1941-1947 with her exhibitions in the Fine Art Gallery at Eatons College St. Friends with Hilla Rebay founding director of  the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum where Edna volunteered as a docent. She also spent time with Lawren Harris when in New York.