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CANADIAN ART IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

By: Murray, Joan.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn: 1999

Seller ID: 24274

ISBN: 1550023322

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

272 pp, 4to (12 3/4" H). "This book is a survey of the richest, most controversial and perhaps most thoroughly confusing century in the whole history of the visual arts in Canada - the period from 1900 to the present. Murray shows how, beginning at the turn of the century, new directions in art emerged - starting with our early Modernists, among them Lauren Harris, Tom Thomson, and the Group of Seven. Today, Modernism has lost its dominance. Artists, critics, and the public alike are confronted by a scene of unprecedented variety and complexity. Murray discusses social and political ...
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THE LAST BUFFALO: THE STORY OF FREDERICK ARTHUR VERNER, PAINTER OF THE CANADIAN WEST.

By: Murray, Joan.

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Pagurian: 1984

Seller ID: 28266

ISBN: 0889321302

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

192 pp, 10 7/8" H11 3/4" D. B&w and colour reproductions, b&w photographs. "Frederick Arthur Verner was one of the great artists of western North America in the nineteenth century. (He) was born in Halton County, Ontario, in 1836, (and) lived through the period when the Canadian West was being tamed and settled, the fur trade was coming to an end, and the Indians were submitting to the treaties. He had a glimpse of how it had been at an earlier period, and his paintings, most frequently of Indian and buffalo subjects, typically combine careful observation with an Arcadian visio...
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RON BAIRD 1984: A CELEBRATIN OF HIS FIRST 20 YEARS OF SCULPTURE.

By: Murray, Joan. With Ron Baird, George Farrow, Margaret Jackson and Alexandra Morin.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Oshawa, Robert McLaughlin Gallery: 1984

Seller ID: 30120

Binding: Spiral binding

Condition: Very Good

98 pp, 8" H x 8 1/4" D. B&w photographs. Catalogue of an exhibition of the work of the Canadian sculptor. Contents: Acknowledgements; Exhibition schedule; Lenders to the exhibition; Sculpture in a dialogue with architecture: Ron Barid, Joan Murray; So what's it supposed to be anyway? Ron Baird; The Exhibition; Letter to Ron Baird: George Farrow; Commission history: Margaret Jackson and Alexandra Morin. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, one tiny corner crease on front cover, soft corner crease and soft wrinkle on rear cover, ve...
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ONLEY'S ARCTIC: DIARIES AND PAINTINGS OF THE HIGH ARCTIC.

By: Onley, Toni. Foreword by George Woodcock.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre: 1989

Seller ID: 28536

ISBN: 088894666X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

166 pp, 10 3/4" H. Colour and b&w illustrations - reproductions, photographs, maps. "Toni Onley made his first trip to the High Arctic in 1974 aboard a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker, the CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent. He returned the following year, this time piloting his small flying boat on a 10,000 kilometre odyssey into the eastern Arctic from Vancouver, B.C. Eleven years later, he and poet Claude Peloquin boarded another coast guard vessel on a voyage to confirm Canada's cultural sovereignty in northern waters. During each of these trips, Onley kept a diary of his daily observa...
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JOHN BROCKE: SEVEN PAINTINGS.

By: Ottenbrite, Philip. (John Brocke.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Mira Godard Gallery: 1989

Seller ID: 28544

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

23 pp, oblong (8 1/4" H x 11 5/8" D). B&w photograph, colour plates. The catalogue of an exhibition of paintings by Calgary artist, John Brocke. Interior - 2" square label from store on first page, otherwise clean and tight with no other marks. Exterior - very light wear on spine, three soft corner creases, snall scuff across top fore-edge of text block, soft wrinkle at fore-edge of rear cover.
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DEAR M: LETTERS FROM A GENTLEMAN OF EXCESS.

By: Pollock, Jack.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1989

Seller ID: 28948

ISBN: 0771070276

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

308 pp, 9 1/4" H. "Until 1983 Jack Pollock (please note - NOT Jackson Pollock the American artist) was the owner of The Pollock Gallery in Toronto, where he exhibited new Canadian artists. Then, abruptly, he lost both his business and his health. Twenty years of a flamboyant lifestyle had led to drug addiction, open-heart surgery, bankruptcy, and to a profound spiritual and psychological malaise. A broken man, he retreated to the south of France, expecting to die. He didn't die. Instead, he began to come to terms with himself and his life, in part by confiding his deepest feelings in ...
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A CONCISE HISTORY OF CANADIAN PAINTING. SECOND (EXPANDED) EDITION.

By: Reid, Dennis.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Oxford University Press: 1988

Seller ID: 28075

ISBN: 0195406648

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

418 pp, 8 1/2" H. B&w and colour illustrations. "This Second Edition covers painting to 1980. A long final chapter treats a crucial fifteen years when there developed in Canada a tremendous interest in other art forms and an apparent falling off of interest in painting. In fact the cry was hear - throughout the western world - that painting was dead. It turned out, however, that this was far from true. Dennis Reid discusses the work of established artists who produced steadily in the period - including Jack Bush, Jack Chambers, Greg Curnoe, Gershon Iskowitz, John Meredith, Guido ...
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GROUP OF SEVEN.

By: Reid, Dennis.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada: 1971

Seller ID: 28705

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good -

89 pp, oblong (8 1/2" H x 12" D). Divided into two sections - Bibliography and Exhibitions - with the following divisions under each: The Group of Seven: General / Franklin Carmichael / Alfred Joseph Casson / Lawren Stewart Harris / Edwin Headley Holgate / Alexander Young Jackson / Francis Hans (Franz) Johnston / Arthur Lismer / James Edward Hervey MacDonald / Thomas John Thomson / Frederick Horsman Varley. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - slight fading of color on spine and hinges, small corner crease on front cover, small light soiling mark ...
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LEMIEUX.

By: Robert, Guy. Translated by John David Allan.

Price: $90.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Gage: 1978

Seller ID: 27066

ISBN: 077159352X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

304 pp, 4to (12 1/4" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour reproductions. The life and work of Quebec artist, Jean Paul Lemieux. Very small dint on top edge of front board - very small shallow dint on top edge of rear board. Dust jacket has light edge wrinkling - mainly at top of spine and flap-folds, tiny scuff and tint dint on fron panel, small sticker very light residue mark on rear panel.
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MICHAEL ROBINSON: THE SPIRIT AND THE SMOKE.

By: Robinson, Michael. Foreword by Mimi Gely. Essay by Carol Podedworny.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Thunder Bay, Thunder Bay National Exhibition Centre and Centre for Indian Art: 1985

Seller ID: 29895

ISBN: 09205390902

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

48 pp, 8" H x 9" D. B&w photographs, b&w and colour reproductions. The catalogue of the exhibition. Contents: Foreword; Introduction; The Spirit and the Smoke; Footnotes; Catalogue of Works; Poetry Section; Biography; Bibliography; Catalogue Production. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - small sticker mark and a faint line indentation on rear cover.
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CLARENCE A. GAGNON, R.C.A., LL.D.

By: Robson, Albert H.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1945

Seller ID: 30052

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good -

32 pp, 6 1/4" H. Part of Ryerson's "Canadian Art Series". B&w photograph frontispiece, 10 colour reproductions. Contains a short appreciation of Gagnon's work, biographical notes, partial list of paintings in public collections, list of public collections containing etchings, followed by the plate section with descriptions. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear - mainly on spine, small corner creases on covers.
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DOWN TO EARTH: CANADIAN POTTERS AT WORK.

By: Ross, Judy Thompson. Research by Nina Czegledy-Nagy. Foreword by Donald Blake Webster.

Price: $27.50 USD

Publisher: Nelson Canada: 1980

Seller ID: 28267

ISBN: 0176007741

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

167 pp, 9 1/2" H x 10 1/2" D. B&w and colour photographs. "(A) pictorial celebration of Canadian potters and their art. Some of Canada's most accomplished ceramic artists express in their own words their thoughts and feelings about the art, craft and business of pottery. They speak about how they came to be potters, how the English, European and Oriental traditions have influenced them, how the landscapes surrounding them have affected their work, and how they have survived financially in an often precarious profession." Artists interviewed: Wayne Ngan; Robin Hopper; Byron...
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SUCSAN: LA SYMBOLIQUE DU CYCLE DE LA VIE / THE LIFE CYCLE THROUGH SYMBOLS.

By: Roussan, Jacques de. Translated by Jane Frydenlund. Foreword by Serge Desjardins.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Roussan: 1989

Seller ID: 27071

ISBN: 2921212005

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

96 pp, 11 1/4" H. Glazed pictorial boards - no dust jacket (as issued). Inscribed, signed and dated by Charles Sucsan on title page. Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour. Bilingual text (French/English). Born in Paris in 1932 of Hungarian parents, Charles Sucsan has pursued his artistic career in Montreal since 1952. This book focuses on his output during the 1970s/1980s. Light rubbing on glossy boards.
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CONTEMPORARY STAINED GLASS: A PORTFOLIO OF CANADIAN WORK.

By: Russ, Joel and Lynn, Lou.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Doubleday Canada, Toronto, 1985, first edition.:

Seller ID: 21744

192 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0385233388 Profusely illustrated in colour. "Celebrating the union of tradition and innovation in the arts, (this) is the first tribute to outstanding Canadian contributions made to the int ernational postwar revival of stained glass as an art form. Presenting seventeen artists who are in the vanguard of this movement, (it) examines the revitalization and refinement of stained glass as a modern medium for expression in art an d a r c h i t e cture....Each of the profiles....shows the artists at work and is accompanied by a r...
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ANDRE BIELER: AN ARTIST'S LIFE AND TIMES.

By: Smith, Frances K. Introduction by David Karel. Epilogue by Ted Bieler. Edited By Philippe Baylaucq.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Richmond Hill, Ontario, Firefly Books: 2006

Seller ID: 30118

ISBN: 1554072328

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

355 pp, 11 1/16" H, DVD "Les couleurs du sang / The Art of Time (53 minutes), in unopened plastic pouch at rear. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w throughout with reproductions & photographs. "This comprehensive study of the life and work of Andre Bieler, one of Canada's most important artists, covers 93 years of his life and art, spanning Europe, the United States and Canada. Beginning with his birth in Switzerland, Smith chronicles (his) European family roots, World War I experiences and traditional artist's apprenticeship. She goes on to describe his arrival in Canada as ...
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ANDRE BIELER: AN ARTIST'S LIFE AND TIMES.

By: Smith, Frances K. Introduction by Michael Bell.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Merritt: 1980

Seller ID: 28216

ISBN: 092088606X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

176 pp, 4to (11 3/4" H). Profusely illustrated with colour and b&w reproductions, b&w photographs. "This study of the life and work of Andre Bieler, one of Canada's most important living artists, spans eighty-three years of his life and art in Europe, the United States and Canada. It studies him against the flowering of twentieth-century Canadian art, a fascinating history in itself. (S)tarts with (his) birth in Switzerland in 1896, tracing his European family roots, his World War I experiences and his traditional artist's apprenticeship in Europe, his arrival in Canada as a young ...
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TOM THOMSON: THE SILENCE AND THE STORM.

By: Town, Harold and Silcox, David P.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart: 1989

Seller ID: 21634

ISBN: 077108482X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

240 pp, oblong 4to (10 3/4" H). Profusely illustrated with color reproductions, b&w photos, drawings. "(M)arks the centennial of the artist's birth with the most extensive collection of his work ever published - 177 paintings in full colour and many more in black-and-white. The prints in this book, most of them duplicating the precise dimensions of the original paintings, reproduce with unprecedented fidelity the colours, techniques and power of all of Thomson's classics, plus a number of works that have not been publicly displayed in any form. The accompanying texts provide an aesth...
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TOM THOMSON: THE SILENCE AND THE STORM.

By: Town, Harold and Silcox, David P.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart: 1982

Seller ID: 30206

ISBN: 077108482X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

240 pp, oblong 4to (10 3/4" H). Signed on front free endpaper by Harold Town. Profusely illustrated with color reproductions, b&w photographs, drawings. "(M)arks the centennial of the artist's birth with the most extensive collection of his work ever published - 177 paintings in full colour and many more in black-and-white. The prints in this book, most of them duplicating the precise dimensions of the original paintings, reproduce with unprecedented fidelity the colours, techniques and power of all of Thomson's classics, plus a number of works that have not been publicly displayed i...
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COLLECTIONS DES MUSEES D'ETAT DU QUEBEC.

By: Tremblay, Jean-Noel, Preface de.

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, Gouvernement du Quebec: 1967

Seller ID: 30004

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

13" H, beige cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, gilt fleur de lis on front board. Pictorial endpapers. Unpaginated - short preface in French only, followed by two page introduction in French, repeated in English. 108 illustrations - b&w plates and tipped in colour illustrations on heavier stock, followed by 10 page catalogue of artists. Page 1 coloured plate has a series of very small areas of colour loss along top edge with colour offset on adjacent page, light colour fading and light browning at edges of boards, area of light colour loss and some faint foxing marks on...
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ARTS IN NEW BRUNSWICK.

By: Tweedie, R.A., Cogswell, Fred, MacNutt, W.Stewart, editors. (Desmond Pacey, David Galloway, Brian Swarbrick, Emery LeBlanc, Lawren Harris, Huia Ryder, Carleton Elliott, Alfred Pinsky, George MacBeath, Stuart Allen Smith, Yvon LeBlanc, W.W. Alward,

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Brunswick Press/University Press of New Brunswick, n.p., (1967), No. 102 of an edition of 2,000 copies.:

Seller ID: 11822

280 pp, folio (13 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w and color reproductions and photographs, tissue-covered color frontispiece of Lord Beaverbrook. Contents: Foreword; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Literature in New Brunswick; Painting in New Brunswick; Music in New Brunswick; Architecture in New Brunswick; Handicrafts in New Brunswick. Two strips of glue residue on front pastedown with corresponding areas surface paper loss on front free endpaper, very light edge wear. Dust jacket is worn with moderate edge wear, browning on spine and edges, small chips, small tears, edge cre...
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Category: Art - Canadian