Honey, We Lost the Kids

Still, McCarthy encountered difficulties along the way, including an estrangement from her mother, a painful affair with a married man, and long years of working overtime to fulfill her dreams. This memoir marries the best of McCarthy's previous writings with exciting new material and traces a compelling woman's life from energetic early girlhood to reflective old age.

Taking the best of her memoirs, Doris McCarthy: My Life tells the story of the artist's life and work. A perfect companion volume to McCarthy's most recent book Doris McCarthy: Ninety Years Wise, My Life showcases this prominent Canadian's wit and wisdom at its best. An essential piece of Canadian, artistic and women's history, written by the greatest authority on the topic: the artist herself.

Doris McCarthy was born in 1910, and has been a key figure on the Canadian art scene since the 1920s. She taught art history for many years and travelled the world to photograph, sketch and paint its many wonders. McCarthy has received the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario, five honorary doctorates, and an Honorary Fellowship at the Ontario College of Art and Design.