Seeded within the story, I have covered topics which include:

• the roles of poverty and children in an artist's career
• the experience of portraiture
• the natures of different media and their use by these artists
• the artist and success
• how Phillips' and Guard's perspective of (and celebration) of the Canadian landscape differed from that of the Group of Seven
• the role of a Canadian woman artist from the twenties onward 
• portraits and self-portraits
• portraits of husband and wife, looking at each other
• Marie's remarkable nudes, including the life-sized works of the thirties (a woman looking at herself and other women)
• a survey of the evolution of each artist over six decades
• Phillips' elegaic drawings of a changing city
• Marie's ground-breaking work in the thirties