Censoring Art by Roisin Kennedy;Riann Coulter;

Censoring Art by Roisin Kennedy;Riann Coulter;

Author:Roisin Kennedy;Riann Coulter;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
Published: 2019-06-21T04:00:00+00:00


John W. Russell and the 1927 Canadian National Exhibition

Just as the Group of Seven reached ascendancy near the end of the 1920s, controversy erupted over the exhibition in 1927 of an academic nude painting by John Wentworth Russell at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Toronto.29 During its ten day run, the CNE Art Gallery broke all previous attendance records as 158,888 people filed through the gallery, drawn by the controversy over the exhibition of three paintings of nudes including Paolo and Francesca by George Drinkwater and Rosalie Emslie’s Comfort, but it was John Wentworth Russell’s large-scale nude A Modern Fantasy (1927, Estate of Anna Russell) (Figure 5.1) that stirred the most debate. The painting had recently been hung in a place of honour at the Paris Salon as ‘one of the outstanding successes at the spring salon of the Société des Artistes Français’.30 When the painting was put on display in the 1927 CNE Art Gallery, however, it raised the ire of the general public, critics and local artists, culminating in over 100 letters to the editor in various newspapers in Ontario.



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