Lilias Torrance Newton ( Quebec 1896-1980 ) - Anna c.1923
This compelling early portrait most likely depicts Anna Yoshida, the daughter of Manzo Yoshida, a Japanese merchant and proprietor of two Montreal shops selling fashionable trade goods from Japan. Her unflappable composure suggests the precedent of the nineteenth-century French artist Jean-Dominique-Auguste Ingres, whose distinctive portraits in turn reprise those of Renaissance artists.
Lilias Torrance Newton ( Quebec 1896-1980 ) - Anna c.1923
This compelling early portrait most likely depicts Anna Yoshida, the daughter of Manzo Yoshida, a Japanese merchant and proprietor of two Montreal shops selling fashionable trade goods from Japan. Her unflappable composure suggests the precedent of the nineteenth-century French artist Jean-Dominique-Auguste Ingres, whose distinctive portraits in turn reprise those of Renaissance artists.