Bishop’s Harbour, Newfoundland, 1992

Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto Private Collection, Ontario

Newfoundland’s beautiful landscape of rocky shorelines, lush green hills, sparkling ocean, and charming architecture offered Doris McCarthy a veritable playground of artistic opportunity. The bright red and crisp white coastal buildings of Bishop’s Harbour pepper the landscape. Set against the chartreuse ground cover, light radiates from the canvas with the artist’s acute sense of colour and form. McCarthy’s affection for the Newfoundland countryside provided a plethora of subject matter for the artist. Inspiration from the views overlooking the water had a profound impact on the artist and depictions of the shoreline communities have come to represent some of the artist’s most celebrated works.