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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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FREDERICK H. VARLEY.

By: Varley, Peter. Preface by Jean Sutherland Boggs. Introduction by Joyce Zemans. (Frederick H. Varley.)

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Key Porter: 1983

Seller ID: 30054

ISBN: 0919493114

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

208 pp, 4to (11 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated with colour and b&w reproductions. "(T)he first major book celebrating the art of Frederick H. Varley, Canada's greatest portrait artist and innovative member of our most famous collection of landscape painters, the Group of Seven. His best-known painting, 'Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay' has been a symbol of the Group of Seven. Varley's greatest achievement as an artist is in his ability to portray the essential oneness of man and nature, the relationship between the figure and the landscape. This book is a tribute to Frederick Varley's ...
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DEAR NAN: LETTERS OF EMILY CARR, NAN CHENEY AND HUMPHREY TOMS.

By: Walker, Doreen, editor. (Emily Carr.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press: 1990

Seller ID: 28202

ISBN: 0774803487

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

436 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w and colour illustrations. "This collection includes 150 letters Emily Carr wrote to her friends Nan Cheney and Humphrey Toms and 100 other letters relating mainly to Emily Carr. The letters date from 1930 to 1945, the most prolific period in Carr's career as both painter and writer. In them she writes in colourful detail about her everyday activities, and discusses her painting - 'the biggest thing in my life'. There are outbursts of exasperation and anger as well as many indications of her caring, her warmth, her wisdom and her wit, and of her impatience wit...
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THE WOMEN OF BEAVER HALL: CANADIAN MODERNIST PAINTERS.

By: Walters, Evelyn.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn: 2005

Seller ID: 25064

ISBN: 1550025880

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

191 pp, square small 4to (10 1/4" H x 10 1/4" D). Signed by author on title page. Colour reproductions, b&w photographs. Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; Nora Collyer (1898-1979); Emily Coonan (1885-1971); Prudence Heward (1896-1947); Mabel Lockerby (1882-1976); Henrietta Mabel May (1877-1971); Kathleen Morris (1893-1986); Lilias Torrance Newton (1896-1980); Sarah Robertson (1891-1948); Anne Savage (1896-1971); Ethel Seath (1879-1963); Appendices: Chronology/Exhibitions; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Illustrations; Index. Light wrinkling at top of spine, top corner of both ...
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A CREE LIFE: THE ART OF ALLEN SAPP.

By: Warner, John Anson and Bradshaw, Thecla, Introduction by. (Allen Sapp.)

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Vancouver, J.J. Douglas: 1977

Seller ID: 12788

ISBN: 0888941498

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

126 pp, 4to, (12 1/4" H). Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour. "This superb book brings together more than ninety of Sapp's (Saskatchwan Cree artist Kiskayetum Saposkum) best paintings, one-third in full colour and many accompanied by his own words. The introduction provides a rich backdrop that tells much of Sapp's life, his people's history and his developing success as a painter." Minor edge wear to boards, very light browning to edges of textblock. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling, a few tiny closed tears, tiny dint on front hinge, small areas of surface paper...
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A CREE LIFE: THE ART OF ALLEN SAPP.

By: Warner, John Anson and Bradshaw, Thecla, Introduction by. (Allen Sapp.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Vancouver, J.J. Douglas: 1977

Seller ID: 28603

ISBN: 0888941498

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

126 pp, 4to, (12 1/4" H). Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour. "This superb book brings together more than ninety of Sapp's (Saskatchwan Cree artist Kiskayetum Saposkum) best paintings, one-third in full colour and many accompanied by his own words. The introduction provides a rich backdrop that tells much of Sapp's life, his people's history and his developing success as a painter." Book is very clean. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling - mainly at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, very small scuff on front panel, very light rubbing including a few tiny scuffs, t...
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JACK SHADBOLT DRAWINGS.

By: Watson, Scott. (Jack Shadbolt.)

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, 1994, 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 22229

182 pp, 4to (12 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 1550541560 Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour. "Jack Shadbolt, praised as 'one of Canada's most intense and original artists', began his long and illustrious career in the 1930s and co ntinues to flourish today. This book celebrates Shadbolt's drawings, the backbone and inner life of his practice, which reveal how much he relies on line to define form and space. Both emotion and intellect inspire and inform Shadbolt's s u r e h a n d , in works that involve a deep love of nature and a profound sense of place. His ima...
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JACK SHADBOLT.

By: Watson, Scott. (Jack Shadbolt.)

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre: 1990

Seller ID: 28443

ISBN: 0888946139

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

243 pp, 12 1/2" H. "In this first full study of the renowned (Canadian) painter, Scott Watson explores Shadbolt's personal struggles to be an artist and to resolve conflicting drives - between spontaneity and restraint, order and chaos - in the context of shifting trends in art as well as social change. Shadbolt also struggled to be understood in a culture that, when he began, was not ready for modern art. From (his) early love of nature and awakening artistic sensibilities to his coming of age while studying in New York, London and Paris, Watson explores the evolution of an artist ...
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THE MOORE COLLECTION IN THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO.

By: Wilkinson, Alan G. Foreword by William J. Withrow. Preface by Alan G. Wilkinson.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario: 1979

Seller ID: 29518

ISBN: 0919876536

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

232 pp, 4to (11 5/8" H). Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour. Contents: Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Drawings; Sculpture; Prints; Notes; Accession Numbers. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - small sticker residue mark on front cover; book is lightly cocked; light toning to spine, hinges - also at top and fore-edge of rear cover; small light sticker mark on rear cover.
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ACROSS THE TABLE: AN INDULGENT LOOK AT FOOD IN CANADA.

By: Wine, Cynthia Berney.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Scarborough, Ontario, Prentice-Hall Canada: 1985

Seller ID: 28288

ISBN: 0130036412

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

211 pp, 10 1/4" H. Watercolours and b&w drawings by Mary Pratt, one of Canada's premier artists. "Beginning in the Atlantic Provinces and moving westward through Quebec, Ontario, the Prairies and British Columbia and finally to the North, Cynthia Wine talks about the specialities found in each of these very diverse regions. Cod au Gratin from the Atlantic, Smoked Ham with Port and Raspberries from Ontario, Hot Crab and Cheese Sandwiches from British Columbia and Ptarmigan with Fresh Cranberries from the North. In many cases the specialities are virtually unknown outside their immedi...
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CHRISTMAS WITH MAUD LEWIS.

By: Woolaver, Lance and Brooks, Bob.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, New Brunswick, Goose Lane: 2017

Seller ID: 30472

ISBN: 1773100602

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

115 pp, square (7 3/4" H x 7 3/4" D) - glazed pictorial boards - no dust jacket (as issued). Colour reproductions and photographs. "Maud Lewis has become one of Canada's favourite folk artists, and her buoyant winter pictures of nature, pets, farm animals, and people at work and play are among her most charming. Her hands were twisted with rheumatoid arthritis, but Maud earned her living by painting Christmas cards and pictures and selling them from her tiny, gaily painted one-room house beside the highway near Digby, Nova Scotia. Originally issued in 1997 and now available in thi...
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Category: Art - Canadian