Looking Out: Canadian Artists in Bermuda and Isabel McLaughlin: Finding Form

Looking Out: Canadian Artists in Bermuda
Public Opening April 27, 2024 in the Butterfield and Mezaninne Galleries

Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art is unique in Bermuda for its impressive collection of art by pivotal Canadian artists such as John Goodwin Lyman, Jack Bush, André Biéler, Isabel McLaughlin, Nora Collyer, Paterson Ewen, John Hartman and many others. Amassed and nurtured by Masterworks Founder Tom Butterfield, the museum's substantial collection of Canadian art, which numbers over 150 pieces, represents an ever-shifting view not only of Bermuda over the twentieth century, but also of Canadian art and culture. Looking Out: Canadian Artists in Bermuda celebrates this collection and explores the stories of these artists, how they viewed and depicted Bermuda, and the place their Bermuda artworks hold in their careers and in both Canadian and Bermudian visual culture.

Isabel McLaughlin: Finding Form
Public Opening April 27, 2024 in the Mezzanine Gallery

A key Canadian modern artist, Isabel McLaughlin (1903-2002) was also a frequent visitor to Bermuda from the 1930s to the 1970s. To Cedar Lodge, her family's Bermuda home, McLaughlin invited several of Canada's most important modern artists, including Yvonne McKague Housser and Prudence Heward, with whom she sketched and painted Bermuda's unique scenery. In 2008, Masterworks was gifted a collection of works on paper by McLaughlin, including pastels, watercolours and even her sketch book, which comprises an unmatched record of her artistic efforts on the island and manifests the important link between architectural and natural forms in her art. This display explores her working process and the forms she found in Bermuda.