# In the Shadow of the Tent

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MCNICOLL, Helen Galloway](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mcnicoll-helen-galloway-re13bc5348a455f>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 82 x 102 cm

## Commentary

The reception of Impressionism in Canada began about a decade later than in the US in the 1890s. Though the fashion for Canadian artists after 1890 was to study in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts or the leading private academies, it was rare for them to grapple with the technique of Impressionism. When they did, it was either a case of direct imitation of the French model, as with Helen McNicoll, or - and this applied to the majority - of briefly adopting a style as a transition to other approaches.

## Attribution

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