Michael Strangelove
The Three Sisters

The Three Sisters

Hand-cut collage and antique paper9.5 x 7.5 in  ·  11 x 14 in matted

come with me

and together we

will dance over

hills and lakes

and the body

of mother

Combines Tom Thomson's The Pointers (1916–17) with Degas' ballerinas and ads from The Dominion Illustrated (1889).

The story

The Three Sisters are three peaks near Canmore, Alberta, called Big Sister, Middle Sister and Little Sister, or Faith, Charity and Hope.

The collage combines Tom Thomson's The Pointers, painted in the winter of 1916–17 and now at Hart House, University of Toronto, with Edgar Degas's dancers and advertisements from The Dominion Illustrated of 1889. The two artists died in the same year: Thomson in July 1917, Degas on 27 September.

The title of this collage is named after a series of three mountain peaks near Canmore, Alberta, one of my favourite Canadian vistas. The Three Sisters are also known as Big Sister, Middle Sister, and Little Sister—or Faith, Charity, and Hope.

Comes matted and framed, 11 x 14 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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