Mary Frances Pratt (AKA: Mary Frances West Pratt, AKA: Mary Pratt) is a painter, printmaker, illustrator and educator. She was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Since graduation from... Read full biography
Mary Frances Pratt (AKA: Mary Frances West Pratt, AKA: Mary Pratt) is a painter, printmaker, illustrator and educator. She was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Since graduation from university in 1961 she has primarily lived in or near St. John's Newfoundland. (1). Her mediums are oil,... Read full biography
Mary Frances Pratt (AKA: Mary Frances West Pratt, AKA: Mary Pratt) is a painter, printmaker, illustrator and educator. She was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Since graduation from university in 1961 she has primarily lived in or near St. John's Newfoundland. (1). Her mediums are oil, pastel, watercolor, charcoal, mixed mediums, silkscreen*, lithograph* and wood block print* (2). Her subjects are still life, domestic objects, figures, nudes, allegory*, symbolism*, color, shape and... Read full biography
Mary Frances Pratt (AKA: Mary Frances West Pratt, AKA: Mary Pratt) is a painter, printmaker, illustrator and educator. She was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Since graduation from university in 1961 she has primarily lived in or near St. John's Newfoundland. (1). Her mediums are oil, pastel, watercolor, charcoal, mixed mediums, silkscreen*, lithograph* and wood block print* (2). Her subjects are still life, domestic objects, figures, nudes, allegory*, symbolism*, color, shape and texture. Her styles are Photo Realism* and Pop Art*. Quote: "My role seems to have been to make people see things that are around them all the time that they never noticed before. to help them find the beauty of the simple things." Mary Pratt (2007).... Read full biography
Mary Frances Pratt (AKA: Mary Frances West Pratt, AKA: Mary Pratt) is a painter, printmaker, illustrator and educator. She was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Since graduation from university in 1961 she has primarily lived in or near St. John's Newfoundland. (1). Her mediums are oil, pastel, watercolor, charcoal, mixed mediums, silkscreen*, lithograph* and wood block print* (2). Her subjects are still life, domestic objects, figures, nudes, allegory*, symbolism*, color, shape and texture. Her styles are Photo Realism* and Pop Art*. Quote: "My role seems to have been to make people see things that are around them all the time that they never noticed before. to help them find the beauty of the simple things." Mary Pratt (2007). She works from color slides. They are used to freeze a moment in time and to preser... Read full biography
Mary Frances West Pratt - Artist Info
About Mary Frances West Pratt: Books
Books & Publications (26)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Artist and Model (Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto)
2015
Seidner, Eva
116 pages (color)
AGO: Highlights from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario
2013
Editor, Art Gallery of Ontario
357 pages (color)
The Self-Portrait Show: A 50th Anniversary Exhibition (Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto)
2012
Seidner, Eva
82 pages (color)
Women Between: Construction of Self in the Work of Sharon Butala, Aganetha Dyck, Mary Meigs and Mary Pratt
2008
Reid, Verna
359 pages (color)
Simple Bliss: The Paintings and Prints of Mary Pratt
2004
Deadman, Patricia; Robin Laurence
56 pages (color)
Canadian Art: From its Beginnings to 2000
2002
Newlands, Anne
355 pages (color)
The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction
2001
Westbridge, Anthony R. and Diana L. Bodnar
622 pages
A Personal Caligraphy
2000
Pratt, Mary
143 pages (color)
Female Gazes: Seventy-Five Women Artists
1997
Martin, Elizabeth; Vivian Meyer
176 pages (color)
Survivors, in Search of a Voice
1995
Amesbury, Barbra
60 pages (color)
The Art of Mary Pratt: The Substance of Light
1995
Smart, Tom
168 pages (color)
Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981
1991
Lerner, Loren R; Mary F. Williamson
1,557 pages (color)
Urban Images, Canadian Painting (Agnes Etherington Art Centre) (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Farr, Dorothy
124 pages
Of Style and Steel
1990
Via Rail Canada, Editor
46 pages
Atque Ars: Art from Mount Allison University, 1854-1989 (The Owens Art Gallery)
1989
Kelly, Gemey, Charlotte Townsend-Gault and Cliff Eyland
48 pages
Mary and Christopher Pratt
1989
Lind, Jane; Douglas McIntyre
48 pages (color)
Mary Pratt
1989
Moray, Gerta; Sandra Gwyn
186 pages (color)
Art Bank Catalogue, 1972-1987
1988
Editor, Canada Council
166 pages
Across the Table: An Indulgent Look at Food in Canada
1985
Wine, Cynthia (Illustrations by Mary Pratt)
211 pages (color)
The Golden Lotus
1983
Brebner, Diana
89 pages (color)
Twelve Canadian Artists (Robert McLaughlin Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Murray, Joan
44 pages
Twenty Painters/Twenty Paintings: Contemporary Canadian Art
1979
Lipman, Marci; Louise Lipman
48 pages (color)
Parallelogramme Retrospective, 1976-1977
1977
Shapiro, Barbara et al
281 pages
Some Canadian Women Artists (The National Gallery, Canada) (Exhibition catalog)