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Title: Flower Diary: In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door
Author: PEACOCK MOLLY
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/11/2021
Imprint: ECW PRESS
Price: $60.00
Publishing status: Active
How do you find time to paint when you need to get to the market to buy a chicken for dinner? How do you manage a marriage when your art student becomes your rival? From the author of The Paper Garden, another revealing look at the life of a ground-breaking female artist.
Molly Peacock uncovers the history of neglected painter Mary Hiester Reid, a trailblazing artist who refused to choose between marriage and a career. Molly Peacock looks at the balancing act of female creativity and domesticity in the life of Mary Hiester Reid, a painter who produced over three hundred stunning, emotive floral still lifes and landscapes.
Born in the U.S. in 1854, trained by libertine Thomas Eakins, Mary trailblased in a life where she fought for her place as a professional artist without having to live as a tragic heroine. She married George A. Reid, a prominent Canadian painter, and moved with him to Toronto, though she kept a studio in the Catskill Mountains. But it was the Edwardian age, and while their relationship was more equal than most, it was Mary s place to manage the domestic scene. So, how do you find the time to paint when you need to get to the market to buy a chicken for dinner? And how do you manage a marriage when your art student becomes your rival?
ISBN: 9781770416222
Dimension: 210mm X 133mm