Farmstead, Eastern Townships

Acquired directly from the artist By descent to the current Private Collection, Ontario

Evelyn Walters, “The Women of Beaver Hall: Canadian Modernist Painters”, Toronto, 2005, page 25 Robert Ayre, "Gentlemen and Ladies!", “The Montreal Star”, 25 April 1964

Following her mother’s death in 1930, Nora Collyer looked after her father and his two residences: a house in Montreal and a cottage in Foster in the Eastern Townships. The cottage became a popular weekend gathering for Collyer and her Beaver Hall friends. In 1950, four years after her father’s passing, the artist and her long-term companion bought their own summer home in the nearby town of Magog. Collyer spent numerous summers illustrating the picturesque landscapes of the Eastern Townships, as demonstrated in “Farmstead, Eastern Townships.” In 1964, Robert Ayre of the Montreal Star wrote “She loves ripeness, the snugness of villages in the hills, and celebrates them in full-bodied colour and easy, comfortable rhythms.”