A fine-art painter in oils and watercolours, the canvases of Pegi Nicol MacLeod “seem to literally pulsate and throb with life,” said Stuart Allen Smith in 1981, in the Artist Profile of Gallery 78. Smith noted that Pegi’s paintings transmitted a “tremendous vitality. This linearity and vivacity become increasingly important elements in her oeuvre.”
Pegi Nicol MacLeod’s Distinctive Style Emerged
On January 17, 1904, Margaret Kathleen Nicol was born in Listowel, Ontario, and gained the nickname Pegi. The family moved to Ottawa, where Pegi immersed herself in art, training first for three years at the Ottawa Art Association under Franklin Brownell. She then spent a year in Montreal’s L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1922 – Pegi was still only 18. Her skill and talent earned her five medals for paintings. It seems that art was part of every breath that Pegi took, every beat of her heart. Art was her life.
MacLeod Toured with Group of Seven
Landscape scenes in her local area of Ottawa and nearby Quebec filled Pegi’s canvases, then, taking a working trip to British Columbia, she captured the lives of natives and their lands in brushstrokes. Her initial work had a resemblance to the pieces produced by another famous section of Canadian artists, the Group of Seven. Touring solo and “alongside A.Y. Jackson and the rest of the Group of Seven,” Pegi exhibited her impressive artwork across Canada, according to a 2005 Canadian Medical Association Journal review of an Ottawa exhibit. An exception to the rule, Pegi was successful in the male dominated world of art in the mid-1900s.
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