Mary pratt

Jelly Shelf harkens back to a moment in Mary Pratt’s childhood, when she was struck by the light coming through the jelly that her mother had put up in the kitchen.

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Mary Pratt (1935-2018) earned a place as one of Canada’s most respected and popular still life artists with her hyper-realistic paintings of domestic activities: basting a turkey, preparing f…

Her Flesh builds on a question once posed by Canadian artist Mary Pratt, “If women are the muse for men … what is the muse for women?" Consider that centuries ago, a woman's singular role in art was limited to that of a muse.

Acrylic on gessoed hardboard, 10 x 12" Painting #224, 2014 Alice Munro and Mary Pratt are considered royalty and icons in Canada for their contributions to the arts. Alice Munro is an author, a writer of fiction known for her uncomplicated prose of short stories exploring a recurrent theme of the human condition. American writer of "The Corrections" Jonathan Franzen states, "Over a career now in its sixth decade, she's rehearsed the same themes again and again, but that's because she's a…

Between the dark and the light, 2010

Mary Pratt, née West, CC, RCA, painter (born 15 March 1935 in Fredericton, NB; died 14 August 2018 in St. John's, NL).

In Salmon on Saran, Mary Pratt’s tour de force is in conveying the transparency of the Saran wrap through paint, an example of the artist pushing her technical abilities to their absolute limits. There is also an underlying and powerful theme about the potential for violence.