Abstract:her own fragile health.Her legacy is an absolutely stunning body of work that has been celebrated in exhibitions, represented in public collections, and sought after by private collectors, and it is a...her own fragile health.Her legacy is an absolutely stunning body of work that has been celebrated in exhibitions, represented in public collections, and sought after by private collectors, and it is also understood as representing a shift in Alberta toward an embrace of modernism and abstraction.Marion Nicoll (1909-1985) is an important founding artist in the history of Alberta art and certainly one of a dedicated few who brought abstraction into practice and acceptance in the province.Introduced to 'automatic' ways of working by J.W.G. (Jock) Macdonald during their time teaching together at the Banff School, Nicoll also studied with Will Barnet at Emma Lake in 1957 and later followed him to New YorkRead More