Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador (AGNL) Shaped by the Sea Permanent Collections Anne Meredith Barry Peter Bell Sylvia Bendzsa David Blackwood Wally Brants Manfred Buchheit Scott Fillier Scott Goudie Pam Hall Tish Holland Josephina Kalleo Kathleen Knowling Frank Lapointe Ray Mackie Colin Macnee Stewart Montgomerie George Noseworthy Paul Parsons Helen Parsons Shepherd Rae Perlin Christopher Pratt Mary Pratt Artworks: Page #1 Artworks: Page #2 Artworks: Page #3 Barbara Pratt Wangersky William B. Ritchie Gary Saunders Reginald Shepherd Gerald Squires Janice Udell Arch Williams Don Wright

Mary Pratt One of Canada's most respected realists, Mary West Pratt is originally from Fredericton, New Brunswick. She met her husband, well-known painter and printmaker Christopher Pratt, at Mount Allison University. They were married in 1957. Mary Pratt graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Mount Allison in 1961; she and Christopher settled in Salmonier, Newfoundland, in 1963. A Scent of Flowers Unknown Date Serigraph, 9/50 51.5 x 39.5 cm (57KB) Although taking time to raise her four children, Pratt continued to paint and had her first solo exhibition at Memorial University Art Gallery in 1967, after her children had reached school age. She has since exhibited at commercial and public galleries across Canada, and is included in many prestigious collections. Her first nationally touring solo exhibition was organized by the London Regional Art Gallery in 1981. Known for her perceptive use of light, Pratt's subject matter is mainly still lifes of domestic objects and the female figure. Her images take on a dimension of reality that is based on photographic references but seems super-real in its detail and saturated colour. The 1995 book The Substance of Light is an analysis of her work by Tom Smart of The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, which organized a nationally touring retrospective of her paintings and multimedia drawings in the same year. The Back Porch 1966 Oil Paint on Canvas Board 50 x 40 cm (33KB) Pratt has been a very active member of the arts community, receiving honorary degrees from Memorial University, Dalhousie University, University of Toronto and St. Thomas University. She was a member of the Applebaum-Herbert Federal Cultural Review Committee in 1981 and in 1985 chaired a committee to advise on the creation of the School of Fine Arts at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. Pratt was named Companion of the Order of Canada in 1996. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador.