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Higher states: Lawren Harris and his American contemporaries
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19836
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Nasgaard, Roald and Gwendolyn Owens
- Publisher
- Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada : Goose Lane Editions ; Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada : McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
- Call Number
- 06.1 N17h
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- Responsibility
- Roald Nasgaard and Gwendolyn Owens
- Publisher
- Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada : Goose Lane Editions ; Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada : McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 201 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 27 cm
- Subjects
- Art
- Subjects
- Art
- Art, Canadian
- Harris, Lawren
- Art History
- Abstract
- Lawren Harris sought greater and greater heights as his career progressed; from mountains to states of mind, he aimed to go higher. This iconic Canadian landscape painter took a seemingly unexpected turn toward abstract art in 1934 – the year in which he moved to the United States, where he remained until 1940. Higher States frames Harris in the larger North American context during his years in New Hampshire and New Mexico, and features an important presentation of his US counterparts, including Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove, and Marsden Hartley. Guest curators Dr. Roald Nasgaard and Gwendolyn Owens investigate the evolution of Harris’s painting from landscape to abstraction and demonstrate his integral role in cross-border artistic developments. (Taken from McMichael: Canadian Art Collection)
- Contents
- Foreward and forward / Sarah Stanners -- Harris's modernity : the engineering draughtsman's instruments / Roald Nasgaard -- A high sort of seeing : Emerson, Harris, and the American moderns / Gwendolyn Owens -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- List of works -- Artist biographies / Emily Baker & Isabella Mello.
- ISBN
- 9780864929655
- Accession Number
- 2019.46
- Call Number
- 06.1 N17h
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- URL pertains to the website in which the abstract was taken from
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Painting in Canada : a history
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20037
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1977
- Author
- Harper, J. Russell
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press
- Edition
- 2d ed.
- Call Number
- 06.1 H11p
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- Author
- Harper, J. Russell
- Responsibility
- J. Russell Harper
- Edition
- 2d ed.
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 1977
- Physical Description
- vii, 463 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Art
- Canadian art
- Subjects
- Art History
- Painting
- Paintings, Canadian
- Abstract
- Through a lively combination of entertaining anecdotes, descriptions of the cultural background, biographical accounts, and critical judgement, the reader comes to know intimately the artists, their paintings, and their environments.
- Contents
- The age of Laval -- Votive painting in New France -- Local painters in New France -- Early painting in British North America -- The aftermath of the Seven Years' War -- British Army topographers in Eastern Canada -- The Golden Age in Quebec: the beginning -- The Golden Age in Quebec: maturity -- Along the Atlantic seaboard -- Portraits for the masses -- Kreighoff and genre in Quebec -- Pre-confederation years in Ontario -- The lure of the West -- The last frozen barrier -- Art in the New Dominion -- The British tradition at confederation -- A news search for Canada -- The dignity of labour -- French academic influences -- Contrasts in Quebec -- Painting as an aesthetic experience -- Nationalism and the 'Group' -- Contemporaries of the 'Group' -- Regionalism in the thirties -- Transformation in the West -- Towards non-objectivity: beginnings -- Reawakening in Montral -- Anglophone revolt in the fifties.
- Notes
- Abstract taken from Aurora, check link for more details
- ISBN
- 0802022715
- Accession Number
- 2019.61
- Call Number
- 06.1 H11p
- Collection
- Archives Library
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