Rody Kenny Courtice
Rody Kenny Courtice: The Pattern of Her Times
Linda Jansma
As a young woman, Rody Kenny Courtice (1891-1973) was one of the first women to enter Toronto's Ontario School of Art, now the Ontario College of Art and Design. Her teachers included members of the Group of Seven, which in the 1920s was the most avant garde art movement in the country. Courtice was very much a part of discarding the need for European art credentials and threw herself into the new Canadian modernist movement. In 1931 she was even invited to exhibit with the Group of Seven. Rody Kenny Courtice, however, was growing in another artistic direction.For the rest of her long life, Courtice continued to exhibit either on her own or in group shows with other women artists, notably Isabel McLaughlin, Yvonne McKague Houser, Paraskeva Clark and Doris McCarthy. The culmination of her constant association with other women artists came in the 1948 Toronto exhibition, '4 Women Who Paint'. Years later she would be the first woman artist to be invited to participate in an exhibition of Canadian abstract art. Her work ranged from the whimsical to the abstract. This first complete monograph serves as a biography of Courtice and her times. It testifies to the talent and ambition of Canadian women painters between the wars, and to their almost complete erasure from art history. Supplemented with numerous colour plates, photographs and personal letters by and to Rody Kenny Courtice
Robert McLaughlin Gallery (11/2006) 156 pp 38 col ill 9 x 6 in softcover /hardcover
Softcover: 978-0-921500-73-5 $28.00 Can./U.S. (22 euros) / Hardcover: 978-0-921500-79-7 $40.00 Can./U.S. (32 euros)
Four Women Who Painted in the 1930s and 1940s
Alicia Boutilier
In an effort to address the imbalance in Canadian art history, Boutilier focuses on women's art clubs in pre-war Toronto and specifically on the careers of Rody Kenny Courtice, Bobs Cogill Haworth, Yvonne McKague and Isabel McLaughlin.
Carleton University Art Gallery (1998) 61 pp 11 ill 9x6 in softcover ISBN: 0770904548 $15.00 Can./U.S. (12 euros)
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