Soon after she settled in Toronto, Paraskeva Clark began to exhibit portraits, landscapes, and still lifes in oil and watercolours. She was immediately recognized as a European-trained modern artist to watch. In the later 1930s and 1940s, she focused on making art with a social purpose—and she is best known today for these paintings. The breadth of her work is remarkable, as is her passionate engagement with life around her.
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Myself 1933
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Still Life 1935
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Working Drawing for Eaton’s Windows 1935
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Snowfall 1935
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Wheat Field 1936
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Russian Bath 1936
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Presents from Madrid 1937
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Petroushka 1937
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In the Woods 1939
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October Rose 1941
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Self-Portrait with Concert Program 1942
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Parachute Riggers 1947
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Canoe Lake Woods 1952
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Souvenirs of Leningrad: Mother and Child 1955–56
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Mount Pleasant and Roxborough at Night 1962–63
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Christine Boyanoski is an independent curator and art historian based in Toronto, Canada.
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