Former governor general Adrienne Clarkson laughs with artist Mary Pratt in front of the official portrait of herself after a unveiling ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Feb. 15, 2007.

Now, five years after her death at age 83, Pratt is the subject of a new biography, Mary Pratt: A Love Affair With Vision, by art historian Anne Koval. “For Pratt, painting was always an attempt ...

When painter Mary Pratt died in St. John's last August at 83, she was lauded as one of the most talented painters in Canada. Before her death, Pratt spoke extensively with filmmaker Kenneth J ...

Mary Pratt's work reveals an artist not merely hinting at buried trauma, but also revelling in the improbable beauty of ordinary things, as seen in Fish Head in Steel Sink (1983).

Mary Pratt remarried, to American artist and academic James Rosen, in 2006. That marriage was short-lived, but Ms. Pratt said, regarding their initial rush of love: “It is wonderful to know that ...

A poster of the late artist Mary Pratt is shown at a memorial in St.John’s, Saturday, Aug.25. Friends, family and admirers recalled Pratt fondly at The Rooms, an art gallery and museum ...

Art and Rivalry: The marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt, by Carol Bishop-Gwyn, Knopf Canada, 272 pages, $34.95.

Fifty years ago, Mary Pratt was mopping the floor of her family’s isolated cottage in rural Newfoundland when she was taken by the sight of the sunlight on an unmade bed and its red blanket.