Editing Beaver Hall Group (section)

==Members==
The ten female artists who were part of the Beaver Hall Group are:<ref>{{cite book|last1=Walters|first1=Evelyn|title=The women of Beaver Hall: Canadian modernist painters|date=2005|publisher=Dundurn Press|location=Toronto, Ontario, Canada|isbn=1-55002-588-0|page=13|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k4APse3bdiMC&q=Beaver%20Hall%20Group&pg=PP1}}</ref>
*[[Nora Collyer]]
*[[Emily Coonan]]
*[[Prudence Heward]] (Although she never showed in any of the group's exhibitions and was not an official member, she was allied with them in her aesthetic aims and through friendships, including with Mabel Lockerby and Sarah Robertson.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Skelly |first=Julia |url=https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/prudence-heward/significance-and-critical-issues/#the-beaver-hall-group |title=Prudence Heward: Life & Work |publisher=Art Canada Institute |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-4871-0073-5 |location=Toronto |language=English}}</ref>)
*[[Mabel Lockerby]]
*[[Mabel May]]
*[[Kathleen Morris]]
*[[Lilias Torrance Newton]]
*[[Sarah Robertson (painter)|Sarah Robertson]]
*[[Anne Savage (artist)|Anne Savage]]
*[[Ethel Seath]]
All ten of the group's participants had studied under [[William Brymner]] (1855–1925), a prominent Canadian artist who encouraged them to explore new modernistic approaches to painting. In an era when women artists were viewed as little more than hobbyists and were left out of the mainstream world of professional art, the Beaver Hall Group was the first Canadian artists association in which women played a central role.<ref name=":1">{{cite book|last1=Meadowcroft|first1=Barbara|title=Painting friends: the Beaver Hall women painters|date=1999|publisher=Véhicule Press|location=Montreal, Quebec, Canada|isbn=1-55065-125-0}}</ref> Importantly, they not only painted but also exhibited and sold their work.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Skelly |first=Julia |url=https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/prudence-heward/significance-and-critical-issues/#the-beaver-hall-group |title=Prudence Heward: Life & Work |publisher=Art Canada Institute |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-4871-0073-5 |location=Toronto |language=English}}</ref> Most of the women affiliated with the Beaver Hall Group chose to remain unmarried.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Skelly |first=Julia |url=https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/prudence-heward/biography/ |title=Prudence Heward: Life & Work |publisher=Art Canada Institute |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-4871-0073-5 |location=Toronto |language=English}}</ref>

However, a touring exhibition at the [[Montreal Museum of Fine Arts]] titled ''1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group'', in 2015, co-curated by [[Brian Foss (art historian)|Brian Foss]] and Jacques Des Rochers, has changed the perception of the group to a new realization of the group's activities and all its artist members or those who were closely associated with the group.<ref>Alicia Boutilier, Review of ''1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group'', in Journal of Canadian Art History, vol. 36, no. 2 (2015): 151.</ref>