As the title indicates, Carol Bishop-Gwyn’s book is a detailed excavation of the marriage of Mary (née West) and Christopher Pratt, primarily through the lens […]
Arts File: Rivals in art: The marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt
Some time in the late 1970s, Newfoundland artist Christopher Pratt inexplicably gave his wife, fellow artist Mary Pratt, slides of nude images of his favourite […]
The Toronto Star: How Mary and Christopher Pratt’s art came out of rivalry — and infidelity
Carol Bishop-Gwyn admits she felt nervous launching her new book, “Art and Rivalry: The Marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt,” in St. John’s. She was […]
Quill and Quire – Art and Rivalry: The Marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt
Canadian landscape painter Lawren P. Harris told Mary Pratt in the early days of her career that if two artists were to wed, only one would […]
ReviewCanada.ca – Artistic Marriage Licence
This is the biography of a marriage. It is a slender book, roughly 230 pages, not counting notes and index. Yet with a judicious instinct […]