Within
the paintings there is affectionate allusion
and homage to the kind of earlier Canadian
landscape painting that tended to cut off
its awe just to spite its realism. Mackenzie’s
paintings are not landscapes, however; they
are more like mystery plays unfolding on
a tundra.
Canoe /
Woman, 1988. Synthetic polymer on canvas,
6 x 7 feet (182.9cm x 213.4cm). Pitblado Collection,
Toronto. Reproduced as front plate to the Introduction
in Joan Murray’s Canadian Art in the
Twentieth Century, 1999.