Edmonton Contemporary Artists' Society
Edmonton Contemporary Artists' Society (ECAS) is an international artists' exhibition collective founded in 1993, based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Background Since the 1920s, artists in English Canada had been heavily influenced by the landscape painting of the Group of Seven (artists), Group of Seven, the Canadian Group of Painters and the Eastern Group of Painters. In Quebec, John Goodwin Lyman founded The Contemporary Arts Society in 1939, promoting post-impressionist and fauvist art.Terry Fenton, ''"ECAS And What It Stands For"'', ECAS 15th Annual Exhibition catalogue essay Paul-Émile Borduas and Jean-Paul Riopelle spearheaded the modernist collective known as Les Automatistes, which began having exhibitions as early as 1941. However, their artistic influence was not quickly felt in English Canada, or indeed much beyond Montreal. The Painters Eleven (1953 - 1960) was founded in Toronto to promote their members' abstract works. Regina Five is the name given to five abstrac ...
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