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PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Ontario
By descent to the present Private Collection, Ontario

EXHIBITED
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal, Ethel Seath Retrospective Exhibition, September 14 - 26, 1987, catalogue #35

Ethel Seath studied under Edmond Dyonnet at the Conseil des arts et manufactures, and under William Brymner and the Impressionist Maurice Cullen at the Art Association of Montreal. Seath was a member of Montreal’s Beaver Hall Group and was also involved in arts groups such the Contemporary Arts Society and the Canadian Group of Painters. She worked as an illustrator in the newspaper business in Montreal and then as an art teacher at The Study, where she taught for 45 years, while continuing to paint and show her work, notably with her fellow women artists from the Beaver Hall studio.

Cabin in Winter is a strong painting, its vivacious colour and robust sense of volume typical of Seath’s work. The rounded masses of snow tumble down the hill; sunlight raking through the trees casting blue shadows emphasizes this downward movement. Pale pastel tints of mauve and yellow also work to define volume on the drifts lit by sunshine, and exemplify her absorption of Impressionism. Seath captured the light and atmosphere of a sunny winter’s day – the viewer feels the fresh, crisp air as if they are there. In her simplification of form and use of bold brushwork, Seath shows her qualities as an early female modernist.

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