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rfmcdonaldWednesday evening, I went over to the Art Gallery of Ontario to catch their new Rita Letendre retrospective, Fire and Light, before it closed. I was not disappointed.
Murray Whyte's July article for the Toronto Star does an excellent job profiling the Québec-born painter, who managed to overcome a childhood marked by poverty and discrimination to become, first the only woman member of the Automatistes of the 1950s, then a painter moving outside movements. I found myself particularly drawn by her later paintings, expanding on from the strict geometries of earlier works like "Lodestar" to subtler explorations of light and colour. Her work is glorious.
Murray Whyte's July article for the Toronto Star does an excellent job profiling the Québec-born painter, who managed to overcome a childhood marked by poverty and discrimination to become, first the only woman member of the Automatistes of the 1950s, then a painter moving outside movements. I found myself particularly drawn by her later paintings, expanding on from the strict geometries of earlier works like "Lodestar" to subtler explorations of light and colour. Her work is glorious.
