“It’s people who attract me,” the Post-Impressionist artist Ethel Carrick once said. “Crowds are to me what a magnet is to a needle. I love the color, life, movement and individuality of a crowd.” Carrick was born in 1872 in Middlesex, England, but she painted middle-class life in Paris, the Middle East, and Australia, where she eventually settled. Her work, done plein air, was characterized by brilliant color and an attentiveness to light. In 1905, she married fellow Impressionist Emanuel Phillips Fox, whose work overshadowed hers. Carrick’s elegant paintings now shine in this large-scale retrospective. —Elena Clavarino