Category Archives: Fashion
Ottawa River of Fashion
Mother Nature
Communing
The background (trees, sky) in this collage captures a painting by James Wilson Morrice RCA (August 10, 1865 – January 23, 1924). Morrice was Canada’s foremost modernist artist. He was the first Canadian painter to be known internationally.
Tom’s Tamaracks
Climbing at Mirror Lake
Ottawa River Fashion 1919
A painting by one of Canada’s Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, The Upper Ottawa, near Mattawa (1924) and a page from the American magazine, The Ladies Home Journal (Oct 1919). What do they have in common that I should bring them together in this collage? This edition of The Ladies Home Journal was delivered to homes in the Ottawa river valley in the 1919s.
In this collage the Ottawa river is replaced with an advertisement from the Journal. In the 1919s the river would have been part of the flow of goods up and down the Ottawa valley.
This particular edition of the The Ladies Home Journal (Oct 1919) has a mailing label still attached from 1919, addressed by Canada Post December 1919 to Miss M. V. McFarland, Rte 5, Almonte, Ontario.
Now there’s a story…