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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Abandoned Skiff, Lake Ontario
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from AskART:
| One of the leading abstract painters in Canada and a founding member of
the Painters Eleven, Alexandra Luke was married to Ewart McLaughlin,
and the couple gave financial support to the founding in 1967 of the
Robert McLaughlin Gallery. Named for Ewart's grandfather, an
amateur artist, the facility was for the exhibition of local artists
and for the establishment of a public art gallery in Oshawa. The
Gallery had specific dedication to the Painters Eleven, who exhibited
abstract art.
Alexandra Luke had two identities. Her artist name was Alexandra
Luke, but personally she used Margaret Alexander Luke McLaughlin.
She was highly prominent in her community, and many of her upper-class
friends had no idea she was an artist.
Two of her artist
colleagues, Jack Bush and Harold Town, told people that she was one of
the most successful painters in Canada.
In a review of a biography of the artist titled Locating Alexandra
by Margaret Rodgers, Frances Bergles wrote that the book "traces the
complexities of her life: her struggle to establish a place in the art
world; her unhappy marriage to a wealthy, un-supportive man; the
demands placed on her as a mother and society matron; her involvement
with the spiritualism of Gurdjieff; and the artistic discrimination she
suffered because of her gender. Her story is an archetypal
example of the tensions and trials of a woman striving for success in a
traditionally male domain."
Source:
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Frances Daw Bergles, http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol2/no36/alexandra.html
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