Current Exhibitions
Bev Tosh: War Brides
December 17, 2011 - April 1, 2012 at The Prairie Art Gallery
More than 44,000 British and European women came to Canada as the wives of Canadian service personnel at the end of the Second World War, accompanied by 22,000 children from these marriages. The story of her war bride mother inspired artist Bev Tosh to paint a striking portrait, which is one of the key works in the War Brides exhibition. That first portrait led Tosh on an odyssey to meet,…