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Anne Douglas Savage
Metis Beach, P.Q., 1930
oil on wood panel
23 x 30.8 cm
Purchased 1989
Ann Savage was born in Montreal in 1896 and grew up in then-rural Dorval. Influenced by summers spent in the Laurentian Mountains, Savage began painting landscapes at a young age. She attended The Art Association of Montreal and the Minneapolis School of Art, and then began a career as a teacher Baron Byng High School in Montreal.
Although influenced by the Group of Seven’s A.Y. Jackson, with whom she was close friends, Savage’s works reflect a land inhabited by a harmonious human presence, rather than a deserted wilderness. In her later years, she began to venture towards abstraction, simplifying form and employing patches of colour.
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