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Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and Works (Bilingual)
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“The struggle to realize and to express my nature is my life’s meaning.” — Erica Rutherford
Erica Rutherford: Her Lives and Works accompanies a career-spanning retrospective exhibition of this multidisciplinary Canadian artist and transgender pioneer.
An artist, actor, filmmaker, farmer, teacher, and writer, Erica Rutherford’s remarkably multifaceted career took her across several countries and continents before settling on Prince Edward Island in the 1970s. There she established herself as a painter and printmaker, using art to engage in a reflection on gender construction and agency.
This remarkable retrospective includes reproductions of more than 65 paintings, prints, and drawings, as well as personal photographs. An interview with Rutherford’s widow, artist Gail Rutherford, accompanies critical essays by scholars and curators examining Rutherford’s stylistic evolution from dark semi-abstract collages to hard-edged Pop Art. Says editor and curator Pan Wendt, “In retrospect, Rutherford’s work represents a courageous and often solitary mission of working through questions that are only now part of the mainstream public discourse.”
Hardcover | 176 pages
22.2 x 28.6 cm (8.7 x 11.3 in.)
Publication Date: 2025


The Coat (The Mirror) Magnet
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Unit price perThis magnet features a detail of the artwork The Coat (The Mirror) (1970) by Erica Rutherford (1923–2008).
Diameter: 7.6 cm (3 in.)
In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada


The Coat (The Mirror) Notecard
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Unit price perThis notecard features a detail of the artwork The Coat (The Mirror) (1970) by Erica Rutherford (1923–2008).
Card dimensions: 13.5 x 17.5 cm (5.3 x 6.8 in.)
Blank inside. Envelope included.
In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada

Nine Lives: The Autobiography of Erica Rutherford (English)
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Erica Rutherford (1923-2008) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, but over the years would live in England, France, South Africa, Spain, Italy, and a variety of places in North America. For fifty years, this internationally respected artist, who was born a male, struggled with the conviction that she was the wrong gender. At the age of fifty, she finally made the decision to live her life as a woman. But this autobiography is much more than a recounting of that basic struggle with gender. Her constant searching led her to embrace change and intensity of experience, and her story is peopled with a fascinating cast of characters—actor Dirk Bogarde, director Orson Welles, stage designer Oliver Messel, architect Marcel Breuer, and a host of others.
Paperback | 243 pages
14 x 21.5 cm (5.5 x 8.5 in.)
Publication Date: 1993

The Owl and the Pussycat (English)
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The owl and pussycat have gone to sea often in the past 100 years, but never in a boat so green, on a sea so blue, into horizons and lands so glowing with color. Artist Erica Rutherford has created beautiful, silk-screened images of Edward Lear’s much loved fantasy poem of two unlikely companions and a spare little boat. First published 150 years ago, “The Owl and the Pussycat” is impossible, nonsensical, whimsical, and it is in those very elements that its appeal lies.
Hardcover | 24 pages
26 x 21 cm (10.2 x 8.3 in.)
Publication Date: 1986