Canadian artist Molly Lamb Bobak is recognized for her works depicting various public events and street scenes. This love for people, the artist has demonstrated throughout his artistic career. First, she enlisted in the Canadian Army Women's Corps to serve her country on one hand, but she stayed because she appreciated the spirit of camaraderie found. Already on the front, she devoted herself to painting the people around her. In this way, she offers the public a completely different vision of war.

Upon his return to the country, his creation continued with the production of still lifes, interior scenes and various outdoor gatherings populated by characters and crowds. Joy, festivities and gaiety are palpable in each of her works. The artist explained to art curator Joan Murray this: “I have always been interested in informal movement—blowing wildflowers, parades, protests, crowds on the street, crowds anywhere; just as long as they turn into painting space in my head.”

The informal movement that is visible in a crowd, a parade or even a demonstration becomes for the artist a space of creation. The work McGill in Autumn testifies well to his taste for moving subjects. Here, in the work presented, Bobak makes us feel all the frenzy and excitement of the start of the academic year at the prestigious Montreal institution. With her husband and painter, Bruno Bobak, she lives in the Maritimes in Fredericton, however, she will regularly visit Montreal from where certain works of public events of the metropolis originate.