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
Pertains to a collection of ninety two color plates painted by various accomplished artists. While the publication certainly establishes an artistic flair, it is in many ways factual as well. The book discusses over two hundred and ninety-five bird species found throughout North America. Comprehensive in nature, the guide offers insight into each bird species habitat, scientific name and other relevant information. Readers can expect to learn about the vast bird species that exist in North America, while also enjoying the stunning art work featured by the following artists, Allan Brooks, George M. Sutton, Walter A. Weber, Francis Lee Jaques, Walter J. Breckenridge, Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
Notes
Illustrated with ninety-two color plates by Allan Brooks, George M. Sutton, Walter A. Weber, Francis Lee Jaques, Walter J. Breckenridge, and Louise Agassiz Fuertes
Pertains to the Sight and Site project which in part revealed the richness of Calgary’s cultural community. The intent of the publication was to explore the artistic works of David B. Milne, a notable Canadian landscapist. The curators, Peter Savage and Lynda Snider explored the ways in which Milne’s style changed overtime, as well as other relevant and interesting details regarding his artistic career.
Contents
Foreword - Dr. Ann Davis (pg. 3)
Sight and Site: Location and the works of David B. Milne - Peter Savage and Lynda Snider (pg. 4)
Pertains to the work of David Brown Milne, a modernist artists whose work reflected the intellectual and emotional mind. Milne was a highly respected and influential artist who portrayed astonishing technique in both oil and watercolour. Rather than follow the path various other artists had at the time of his career, Milne ascended his own path, and his work reflects such independence. The publication is comprehensive in the sense that it combines Milne’s art with a history of his life and experiences. Written by David Silcox, the publication explores the artist’s successes, failures and major breakthroughs, artistically speaking. Readers can expect to learn more about David Brown Milne and his artistic endeavors.
Contents
Introduction (pg. 9)
One: Early promise and early success (pg. 11)
Two: A solitary path (pg. 19)
Three: The Great Depression: Years of productivity (pg. 39)
Pertains to the work of David Brown Milne, a modernist artists whose work reflected the intellectual and emotional mind. Milne was a highly respected and influential artist who portrayed astonishing technique in both oil and watercolour. Rather than follow the path various other artists had at the time of his career, Milne ascended his own path, and his work reflects such independence. Written by Rosemarie L. Tovell, the publication explores the artist’s successes, failures and major breakthroughs, artistically speaking. Readers can expect to learn more about David Brown Milne and his artistic endeavors.
“The Guild of Boston Artists represents a kind of healthy extrovertism and a profound respect for the robust and optimistic aspects of American life. In a time of alarms, and concerns about environment, its members affirm a faith in the enduring beauty of nature – the inexhaustible source of artistic inspiration – and in the continuing existence of high standards and disciplines of professional craftsmanship.”
Pertains to the work of Illingworth Kerr, a Canadian western landscape painter. The exhibition and catalogue was intended to celebrate the extensive art career, and 80th birthday of Illingworth Kerr. In an effort to showcase the variety of Kerr’s artistic expression, the exhibition organizer’s divided Kerr’s work into the following categories; landscapes, animal studies, portraits, townscapes, abstracts and automatic paintings. The exhibition organizer, Maggie Callahan, shares a comprehsneive anlalysis of Kerr’s life as an artist and his work over his impressive 60 year career.
Contents
Forword (pg. 2)
Curators' notes (pg. 3)
Acknowledgements (pg. 4)
Essay -
Kerr's youth (pg. 6)
Ontario College of Art (1924-27) (pg. 7)
Back to the prairies (1927-36) (pg. 16)
A decade of wandering (1936-46) (pg. 28)
Alberta College of Arts (1947-67) (pg. 32)
Kerr today (pg. 42)
List of works (pg. 55)
Selected bibliography (pg. 59)
Chronology (pg. 60)
Itinerary (pg. 62)
Notes
Exhibition held at the Edmonton Art Gallery, Mar. 2-Apr. 14, 1985 and other places.