Join Caroline Shields, AGO Curator, European Art and Art historian Julie Nash as they discuss the Impressionist work of Helen McNicoll (Canadian, 1879−1915).

Presented as part of the exhibition Helen McNicoll: An Impressionist Journey.

Caroline Shields is Curator, European Art at the AGO, where she has curated the exhibitions Impressionism in the Age of Industry: Monet, Pissarro and more (2018), Steam: Impressionist Painting Across the Atlantic (2022) and Cassatt—McNicoll: Impressionists Between Worlds (2023). She holds a Doctorate in art history from the University of Maryland with a specialization in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century European art.

Julie Nash is a curator and art historian whose areas of study include turn of the twentieth-century connections between Canadian and international art. She was the Curatorial Assistant for the exhibition Cassatt – McNicoll: Impressionists Between Worlds at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and worked at the National Gallery of Canada for many years. Julie played an integral role developing the didactics and consulting for the AGH’s exhibition in collaboration with the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. In 2024, she was a program consultant for an episode of the BBC’s ‘Fake or Fortune?’ dedicated to Helen McNicoll, which proved that a long-lost canvas had been rediscovered.

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