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ROBERT BATEMAN - THE EARLY YEARS.

By: N/A

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Georgetown, Ontario, 1984

Seller ID: 27930

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

12 pp (including covers), 8 1/2" H. 2 small b&w illustrations only, including photograph of Robert Bateman. The catalogue of an exhibition at Halton Hills Library and Cultural Centre, Georgetown, Ontario, from June 1 to August 3, 1984. Contents: Foreword; Robert Bateman 1930 - ; Paintings in the exhibition (chronological listing of 35 works of art from 1949 to 1963 giving title, year, medium and size in inches); Honours; Exhibitions (from 1959 to 1983); Publications with articles on Robert Bateman and his art; Book on Robert Bateman; Films on Robert Bateman; Patrons of the Exhibition. ...
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CANADIAN WATERCOLOURS AND DRAWINGS IN THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM. 2 VOLUME SET IN SLIPCASE.

By: Allodi, Mary. Forword by Donald Blake Webster.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum: 1974

Seller ID: 28650

ISBN: 0888541597

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Unpaginated, oblong (8 7/8" H x 12 1/4" D) - medium brown cloth with gilt lettering on spines and front boards. Slipcase covered in matching brown cloth with gilt lettering and colour pastedown on front panel. 2220 reproductions in b&w and colour. Volume One: Foreword; Introduction; Notes on Procedure; Abbreviations; Artists A to K. Volume Two: Artists K to Y; Anonymous Artists; Geographic Index; Subject Index. Minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spines. Slipcase has very minor rubbing.
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THE PAINTED VALLEY: ARTISTS ALONG ALBERTA'S BOW RIVER, 1845-2000.

By: Armstrong, Christopher and Nelles, H.V.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Calgary, University of Calgary Press: 2007

Seller ID: 24520

ISBN: 1552382079

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

160 pp, 4to (11" H). B&w photographs, b&w and colour reproductions. "With its dramatic landscapes and rugged beauty, Alberta's Bow River valley has inspired generations of artists. (This book) brings together a collection of works by local and visiting artists from 1845 to 2000 that captures the many moods of the river from its source high in the Rocky Mountains down to the city of Calgary and eastward across the open prairie. (The authors) have selected (works) from a number of Alberta museums and national collections which depict the Bow River and its valley, representing a broad ar...
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CORNELIUS KRIEGHOFF: PIONEER PAINTER OF NORTH AMERICA.

By: Barbeau, Marius.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Company of Canada: 1934

Seller ID: 28766

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

152 pp, 9 3/4" H. Red cloth with silver lettering on spine and front board. Colour and b&w plates. The 'First Part' consists of a short biography of the artist. 'Second Part': Chronological List (of Kriefghoff's dated pictures); Notes and Information; "Catalogue Raisonne" - French Canada; Bourgeois and Sportsmen of Montreal and Quebec (1847-1871); Canadian Indians; Miscellanea - Nude, Still Life, Copies, Illustrations, Lists. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, browning to edges of text block with tiny foxing marks on bottom, spine is heavily sun faded - tiltle is l...
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THE SPIRIT OF CANADA. DOMINION AND PROVINCES 1939. A SOUVENIR OF WELCOME TO H.M. KING GEORGE VI AND H.M. QUEEN ELIZABETH. WITH ITINERARY SHEET.

By: Beatty, Edward, Sir, foreword. L.M. Montgomery, Nellie L. McClung, Duncan Campbell Scott, Clara Dennis, Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, Robert Choquette, Katherine Hale, W.T. Allison, Mary Weekes, Robert J.C. Stead, Mrs. George Black, Philip H. Godsell.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Canada, Canadian Pacific Railway: 1939

Seller ID: 28952

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good

59 pp, 13 1/8" H. With single sheet (printed on both sides) "The Itinerary of the Royal Visit Across Canada" laid in at front. This souvenir of the King & Queen's visit begins with "Loyal Greetings" and a colour portrait of the royal couple in regalia, both with gilt borders, followed by Contents and Foreword. Each of the following sections have gilt, red, blue and white decorative headpieces and a full page colour reproduction of a government building by Charles W. Simpson, R.C.A. - except Northwest Territories which only has a decorative headpiece. The book ends with a ...
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FROM THE HEART: FOLK ART IN CANADA.

By: Blanchette, Jean-Francois, et al.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart/National Museum of Man: 1983

Seller ID: 22853

ISBN: 0771090226

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

256 pp, oblong 4to (9 3/4" H). "(M)akes available the full scope of folk art from across Canada and, for the first time, introduces some of the artists who create it. The panorama of cultures and regional traditions that gives meaning to this vast nation is represented in the diverse objects brought together by the Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, a branch of the National Museum of Man." Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour with everything from weathervanes and decoys to kitchenware, quilts and oil paintings. Very light edgewear, very light rubbing on covers.
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THE CANADIAN EARTH: LANDSCAPE PAININGS BY THE GROUP OF SEVEN.

By: Boulet, Roger. Biographies by Paul Duval. Foreword by A.J. Casson.

Price: $90.00 USD

Publisher: Cerebrus/Prentice-Hall, n.p., (1982).:

Seller ID: 16368

227 pp, oblong 4to (10 3/4" H x 13 1/2" C x 1 1/4" W), hard cover in dust jacket. Beautifully and profusely illustrated in full colour with full page reproductions. "(A) story of the landscape paintings of Tom Thomson and those painters who banded together as the Group of Seven. In a succinct and readable essay, author Roger H. Boulet follows the trails these artists blazed on their sketching trips. Theirs was a quest for the rediscovery of their own country. Most of the paintings selected for this volume have been held in both private collections and major public galleries...
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THE TRANQUILITY AND THE TURBULENCE.

By: Boulet, Roger. Signed. Foreword by John P. Crabb.

Price: $175.00 USD

Publisher: M.B. Loates, Markham, Ontario, 1981.:

Seller ID: 24681

232 pp, oblong folio (13 1/2" H x 16" D), hard cover (silver boards with embossed title block on front cover - no dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE: "ROGER BOULET". ISBN 0920892051 Profusely illustrated with reproductions of Walter J. Phillips' b eautiful watercolor paintings. Contents: Foreword; 1884-1913: Early Years / The Delicate Art of Watercolor; 1914-1924: Winnipeg; 1924 & 1925: Lake Muskoka - A Summer Idyll / England; 1926 & 1927: Winnipeg & Lake O'Hara / First Trip to the Wes t C o a s t; 1928-1940: Under Prairie Skies; 1940-1963: Middle Watercolors / A West Road ...
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ART OF THE SPIRIT: CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN FABRIC ART.

By: Bradfield, Helen; Pringle, Joan; Ridout, Judy. Introduction by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn: 1992

Seller ID: 24521

ISBN: 1550021524

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

128 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H). Colour and b&w photographs. "Rich colours and arresting designs capture the mood of celebration and joy that characterizes this photographic record of contemporary religious works of art. Chosen for their excellence in design and stitchery, these works represent the achievements of artists who have created art, in fabric, for places of worship. This book celebrates this important artistic expression, a significant part of our heritage. Pieces are selected from communities across Canada: from a small parish on a Micmac reserve in Nova Scotia to a large urban sy...
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52 COULEURS DU QUEBEC ... CINQUANTE-DEUX PEINTRES. THE COLOURS OF QUEBEC ... FIFTY-TWO PAINTERS.

By: Bruens, Louis.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Editions la palette, Montreal, 1987.:

Seller ID: 21875

237 pp, 4to (12" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 2980106003 B&w and colour illustrations. Bilingual text (French/English). Showcases the work of 52 Quebec artists, giving brief biographies. Francesco Alberti, Gilles Archambault, Leonard Bas que, Andre Bertounesque, Normand Boisvert, Yvette Boulanger, J. Marcel Bourbonnais, Patricia Bourque, Serge Brunoni, Albert Buscio, Christian Deberdt, Littorio Del Signore, John Der, Maurice Domingue, Robert Dupont, Lucie Fournier, Helmut G e r t h , J o s eph Giunta, Francine Gravel, Monique Harvey, Richard Hetu, Vladimir Horik, Normand Hudon...
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JAMES WILSON MORRICE.

By: Buchanan, Donald W.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press: 1947

Seller ID: 30053

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

38 pp, 7 1/4" H. B&w and colour reproductions. Part of Ryerson's "Canadian Art Series". Buchanan provides a biographical sketch, followed by The Technique of His Oil Sketches on Wooden Panels; His Studio Canvases; His Drawings; Bibliography; Catalogues; Collections. Interior - one light separation between two page gatherings which are still firmly held in the binding. Exterior - minor edge wear wrinkling, light toning to edges of covers and on spine.
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Image for LANDMARKS OF CANADA: A GUIDE TO THE J. ROSS ROBERTSON CANADIAN HISTORICAL COLLECTION IN THE TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY. ILLUSTRATED REPRINT EDITION OF VOLUME I (1917) AND VOLUME II (1921) WITH A CONSOLIDATED INDEX.

LANDMARKS OF CANADA: A GUIDE TO THE J. ROSS ROBERTSON CANADIAN HISTORICAL COLLECTION IN THE TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY. ILLUSTRATED REPRINT EDITION OF VOLUME I (1917) AND VOLUME II (1921) WITH A CONSOLIDATED INDEX.

By: Campbell, H.C., introduction.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Toronto Public Library: 1967

Seller ID: 28342

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

383 pp, oblong (8 3/4" H x 10 3/4" D). Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front board. B&w illustrations. Contents: Introduction; Landmarks of Canada, Volume I; Landmarks of Canada, Volume II; Supplementary List of Paintings; Portrait Index; General Index. Light wrinkling at bottom of spine, minor edge wear, very light rubbing, minor soiling on top of text block.
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ARTIST AT WAR.

By: Comfort, Charles Fraser. Introduction by Eric Harrison. Afterword by Charles Fraser C. Jackson.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Pender Island, British Coumbia, Remembrance Books: 1995

Seller ID: 27533

ISBN: 0920270212

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

197 pp + 4 pp of colour maps, 9" H. Colour plates, b&w portraits. "In 1943, Charles Comfort was sent into battle to make a painter's record of the Canadian army's fight against the Germans on the Italian peninsula. (This) is his account of that fight. Enduring the shellfire, the mud, and the fatigue of battle, Comfort watches war being waged amidst the treasures of centuries of Italian art and culture. From the horrors of Ortona to the jubliant liberation of Rome, (this book) gives us a view of the war unlike any other - the vivid and penetrating view of a soldier armed not just with ...
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ARTIST AT WAR.

By: Comfort, Charles Fraser. Introduction by Eric Harrison. Afterword by Charles Fraser C. Jackson.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Pender Island, British Coumbia, Remembrance Books: 1995

Seller ID: 30526

ISBN: 0920270212

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

CARNAVAL PERPETUEL: A COLLECTION OF WORKS BY HEATHER COOPER.

By: Cooper, Heather.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Le Carnaval Perpetuel: 1987

Seller ID: 22708

ISBN: 0920668445

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

160 pp, 4to (11 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated in vivid colour and b&w. "To many, the name Heather Cooper conjures visions of finely detailed paintings in mythical and romantic themes. As posters and prints, her works have become a medium of their own in celebrating North America's performing arts. But as 'Carnaval Perpetuel' quickly comfirms, the work of Heather Cooper goes much further, with a range that takes in the design of packaging, postage stamps, corporate trade marks, greeting cards, annual reports, even retail displays. Her work has been featured internationally in Graphis,...
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KEN DANBY: THE GRAPHIC WORK. LITHOGRAPHS AND SERIGRAPHS.

By: Cumming, Glen E., foreword. With excerpts from a conversation with Andrew J. Oko.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Hamilton, Art Gallery of Hamilton: 1980

Seller ID: 28769

ISBN: 0919153003

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

32 pp, oblong (9" H x 11" D). Colour and b&w reproductions. Exhibition catalogue. Contents: Itinerary; Foreword; Ken Danby of Serigraphy (From "Ken Danby" by Paul Duval); A Conversation with Ken Danby; The Exhibition/Lithographs; The Exhibition/Serigraphs; Biography (Chronology); Selected Bibliography. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - some very minor soiling and wrinkling on covers, two tiny minor corner creases.
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TREASURES OF THE GLENBOW MUSEUM.

By: Dempsey, Hugh A.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta, Glenbow-Alberta Institute: 1991

Seller ID: 28575

ISBN: 1895379008

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

200 pp, 11 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. "(P)rovides a glimpse into the vast collections of the museum and tells the stories of their origin and acquisition. From 1954 to 1966, Glenbow was the pride of Eric L. Harvie, Calgary philanthropist. During those years, he brought priceless objects from all parts of the world, while his staff concentrated on collecting western Canadian artifacts. Since then, Glenbow has added significantly to its collections and has gained international acclaim for its exhibitions and museum programs." Very minor wrinkling at top of...
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HISTORY IN THEIR BLOOD: THE INDIAN PORTRAITS OF NICHOLAS DE GRANDMAISON.

By: Dempsey, Hugh A. Introduction by J. Russell Harper.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre: 1982

Seller ID: 28827

ISBN: 0888943601

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

124 pp, 12 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with colour reproductions, b&w photographs. "(P)resents 64 of de Grandmaison's finest Indian portraits, all from the Bank of Montreal collection. Superbly reproduced in color, they are enhanced by J. Russell Harper's introduction and a text from Hugh A. Dempsey, Chief Curator of the Glenbow Museum. Dr. Dempsey sketches in the details of de Grandmaison's life, provides a background to the history and way of life of the native peoples the artist painted, and writes informative, sometimes anecdotal, captions about the subjects themselves. The ver...
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A.J. CASSON: HIS LIFE & WORKS / A TRIBUTE.

By: Duval, Paul.

Price: $225.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Cerebus / Prentice-Hall: 1980

Seller ID: 29774

ISBN: 0920892027

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

285 pp, 13 1/2" H x 19" D. Signed by A.J. Casson on title page (signature only). Maroon cloth with blind-stamped 'CASSON' on fore edge of front board and gilt lettering on spine. In original publisher's corrugated cardboard box (white with maroon lettering). Profusely illustrated with colour and monotone reproduction, b&w photographs. "A.J. Casson is one of the most beloved of all Canadian artists. His works are sought after probably more than those of any other living native painter. As a member of the Group of Seven and in the many years since its dissolution, he has created...
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CANADIAN IMPRESSIONISM.

By: Duval, Paul.

Price: $67.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1990

Seller ID: 29904

ISBN: 0771029650

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

166 pp, square 4to (11 3/4" H). "This beautiful volume, full of the light and colour that characterize most Impressionist art, is a thoroughly enjoyable guide to Canadian Impressionist painting from roughly 1885 to 1920. It brings together, for the first time in book form, the Canadian representatives of the world's most popular and accessible school of painting, offering a totally fresh look at a now-vanished society, and presenting a strong contrast to the isolated, unpopulated vision of the country usually portrayed by the Group of Seven - although members of that group are repres...
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Category: Art - Canadian