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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Bishop-Gwyn, Carol.     Subjects     Pratt, Christopher -- Marriage.     Pratt, Mary, 1935-2018 -- Marriage.     Pratt, Christopher.     Pratt, Mary, 1935-2018.     Artist couples -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.     Painters -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.     Printmakers -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.     Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bishop-Gwyn, Carol.       by title:      Art and rivalry : th...       by call number:      759.11 P913b     Search the Web     Bishop-Gwyn, Carol.     Pratt, Christopher -- Marriage.     Pratt, Mary, 1935-2018 -- Marriage.     Pratt, Christopher.     Pratt, Mary, 1935-2018.     Artist couples -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.     Painters -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.     Printmakers -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.     Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.       MARC Display

Art and rivalry : the marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt / Carol Bishop-Gwyn. by Bishop-Gwyn, Carol. Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2019. Call #: 759.11 P913b Subjects Pratt, Christopher -- Marriage.   Pratt, Mary, 1935-2018 -- Marriage.   Pratt, Christopher.   Pratt, Mary, 1935-2018.   Artist couples -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.   Painters -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.   Printmakers -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.   Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography. ISBN:  9780345808424 (hc.) Description:  xvii, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "She painted as if with pure light, radiant colours making quotidian kitchen scenes come alive with sublimated drama. He painted like clockwork, each stroke precise and measured with exquisite care, leaving no angle unchecked and no subtlety of tone unattended. Some would say Mary Pratt was fire and Christopher, ice. And yet Newfoundland's Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera (or Jackson Pollack and Lee Krasner ...) presented their marriage as a portrait of harmony and balance. But balance off the canvas rarely makes great art, and the Pratts' art was spectacular. As a youth at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Mary pursued her future husband, a prodigious art talent, and supported his determination to study painting instead of medicine. They married and removed themselves to a Newfoundland outport where his painting alone provided the means to raise a family. But as Mary's own talents became evident and she sought her own hours at the easel, when not raising their four children, and as rumours of Christopher's affair with a young model spread, the Pratts' harmonious exterior slowly cracked, to scandal in Newfoundland and fascination across the country. A marriage ended, and gave way to a furious competition for dominance in Canadian art." Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 759.11 P913b Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 759.11 P913b Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Sheet Harbour Public Library Adult Nonfiction 759.11 P913b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Tantallon Public Library Adult Nonfiction 759.11 P913b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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