her paintings, which often feature windows and birdcages. She also painted many urban landscapes. Pflug said of her art, "I would like to reach a certain clarity which does not exist in life. But nature is complicated and changes all the time. One can only reach a small segment, and it takes such a long time." Death On April 4, 1972 Pflug committed suicide by taking an overdose of Seconal on the beach of Hanlan's Point on Toronto Island, which was one of her favourite outdoor painting places. A play based on her life—Christiane: Stations in a Painter's Life—by Francophone writer Marguerite Andersen was produced in 1996 by the Factory Theatre Cafe in Toronto. Work and art During her short lifetime Pflug established a successful career in Canada. She held a teaching position at the Ontario Art College (now OCAD) in Toronto, as one of four women to teach there during the 1960s as well as considerable attention from galleries, collectors and critics with a retrospective at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (1966), Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House) (1969) and the Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia (1971). Today her paintings are in the collections in National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Pflug was praised for her rendering of Magic Realism in an excerpt from the Toronto Star newspaper (11 June 1969) that remarked, "[t]ime is distorted in her paintings. They're worked on six hours a day for about nine months, and so the season's change- but the artist simply incorporates this change into her paintings. The foliage will be [blowing] and dying in different parts of the same painting; or the view outside will be winter, while the reflection on the glass door will be summer". Pflug's life and career have resulted in the creation of several biographies, including Ann Davis', Somewhere Waiting: The life and art of Christiane Pflug (1990) and Christine Conley's, Daughter in Exile: The Painting Space of Christiane Pflug (1998). References Further reading External links www.christianepflug.com Pflug, Christiane in The Canadian Encyclopedia Pflug at Radio Canada CBC, documentary, 2015 Pflug, in the exhibition The Artist Herself: Self-Portraits by Canadian Historical Women Artists, 2015 at Queen's University Publication thereabout, The Artist Herself: Self-Portraits by Canadian Historical Women Artists. L'artiste elle-même. Autoportraits de femmes artistes au Canada. Christiane Pflug: page 123-161, by Georgiana Uhlyarik Christiane Pflug: A Certain Degree of Truthfulness, Georgiana Uhlyarik, Art Gallery