Michael Strangelove
Magnificent Scenery

Magnificent Scenery

Hand-cut collage using contemporary, vintage, and antique paper7.5 x 9.5 in  ·  12.5 x 14.5 in matted

picturesque

statuesque

magnificent scenery

each way daily

she inscribes the

only line

through our hearts

Combines Tom Thomson's Black Spruce in Autumn (1915) with Edgar Degas's After the Bath (c. 1883) and an advertisement from The Dominion Illustrated (1889).

The story

Thomson's Black Spruce in Autumn is a small oil sketch from the fall of 1915, now in the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario. This collage is within an inch of its size in both directions.

The woman is from Edgar Degas's After the Bath, a title Degas used for many pastels and paintings between about 1883 and the end of the century. With them is an advertisement from The Dominion Illustrated of 1889.

Comes matted and framed, 12.5 x 14.5 in overall.

Colour accuracy is difficult to ensure online. The artwork may vary slightly from the images shown here.

In the exhibition

Showing all November in Women in the Victorian Imagination at the Art House Cafe, 555 Somerset St W, Ottawa. Opening reception 7 PM, Thursday 12 November.

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