Loon Lake, 1966, oil on canvas, 24 “x 30″

Doris McCarthy’s Loon Lake is a brilliant painting, one from her seminal 1960′s hard-edge abstract period. Bulrushes, Haliburton, is a dynamic plein air painting from an immediately preceding period. Each has its own entity and share a significant place at the centre of her career.

With several decades of painting experience and successes as her foundation, and at the cusp of her full time art practice, as her retirement from teaching was in view, these two remarkable paintings possess a maturity and spirit that signal her significant years ahead!

Bulrushes, Haliburton, 1963, oil on panel,12″ x 16″