name:"Milroy, Sarah, Dejardin, Ian, and Parke-Taylor, Michael" found 1 record - Research Collections

Abstract: The Art of Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, is a comprehensive and diverse examination of the impact and lasting influence of Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, the last member of the Group of Seven, joining in 1932, and the only member to live in western Canada. Co-curated by Sarah Milroy, Chief Curator and Ian A.C. Dejardin, Executive Director of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the exhibition will present more than 200 paintings, drawings and prints, in partnership with the Winnipeg Art Gallery. This scholarly publication will examine the artists' practice and inspirations through a selection of the exhibition works and essay contributions by the curators, Winnipeg Art Gallery Chief Curator Andrew Kear, artists Pierre Dorion, Robert Houle and Wanda Koop, writer Robert Enright and prominent Canadian art historians Michael Parke-Taylor and Dr. Oliver A.I. Botar. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Director's foreword -- Into the light -- An art of adaptation -- A Canadian artist in American, 1930 -- On the prairie -- The life force -- Still life and windowsills -- The neighbourhood -- The voyage west -- Journey into abstraction -- Chronology.

Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario from October 12, 2019 to February 1, 2020, and Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, March 7 - July 12, 2020.

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