A Concise History of Canadian Painting

First published in 1973, this book quickly became an indispensable short history of Canadian painting. This new edition has been extensively revised and expanded to reflect new information and new interpretations. The first edition studied Canadian painting through 1965, masterfully combining visual description, anecdotes, and aesthetic evaluation with full accounts of the careers of most of the leading Canadian painters, beginning in the French colonial period. The second edition covers events through 1980, with a new long chapter covering the crucial intervening fifteen years that saw developing in Canada a tremendous interest in other art forms, and an apparent waning of interest in painting. Reid contends that this was not so, and traces the contributions of established artists who produced steadily in the period as well as new arrivals on the scene who have since joined the ranks of leading Canadian artists. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 illustrations, 36 of them in color, this edition is simply the most wide-ranging and authoritative handbook on its subject available and will be of interest to anyone involved in art and art history.

Arts & Photography

Reid, Dennis R.

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Bertram Brooker, 1888-1955, (Canadian artists monographs)

National Gallery of Canada

Tom Thomson: The jack pine = Tom Thomson : Le pin (Masterpieces in the National Gallery of Canada)

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Canadian jungle: The later work of Arthur Lismer

Art Gallery of Ontario

Atma buddhi manas: The later work of Lawren S. Harris

Collectorʼs Canada: Selections from a Toronto private collection

Thoroughly illustrated and documented retrospective catalog of Canadian landscape master Lucius O'Brien by scholar Dennis Reid includes a biographical and critical essay, catalog entries, and a chronology. 191 pages

Lucius R. O'Brien: Visions of Victorian Canada

Alberta rhythm: The later work of A.Y. Jackson

Cornelius Krieghoff, born in Amsterdam in 1815 and an immigrant to North America about 1835, is Canada's most famous nineteenth-century artist. The familiarity of his paintings may make it surprising that this book is published on the occasion of the very first retrospective exhibition of his work. We have known Krieghoff best for his affectionate depictions of everyday life among the habitants and First Nations residents of what is now Quebec. This project illuminates his considerable skill and narrative power as a painter, while revealing his relationship to his adopted country as it evolved from colony to nation. Kriegoff: Images of Canada features essays by three distinguished writers, and all 152 works from the exhibition are reproduced in colour. The nineteenth century in Europe and North America witnessed an artistic shift away from neoclassicism's monumental canvases of historical subjects to the intimacy, the dailiness, the humour and anecdotal warmth of genre painting. In Canada, as elsewhere, this shift occurred as a middle class, agent of growing commerce and industry, was rising to prominence. Situating the artist within the rich context of the period, Dennis Reid's essay focuses on Krieghoff as a major Canadian cultural figure in the years leading up to Confederation, showing his work to be as much shaped by his new homeland as his images indelibly shaped future public perception of his time and place. Ramsay Cook's essay presents a fresh reading of these iconic images in light of the underlying social attitudes and political issues of the day, especially as seen by a newcomer. Francois-Marc Gagnon's text examines the sources in European tradition of Krieghoff's images of French Canadians and Native peoples and considers the interpretation of his paintings by the influential Quebec art historian Gerard Morisset. Raymond Vezina contributes a useful, illustrated chronology, and Arlene Gehmacher provides detailed and fully researched catalogue entries. This book was published in partnership with the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Master Mariner : Captain James Cook and the Peoples of the Pacific

Gagnon, François-Marc

Cook, Ramsay

Art Gallery Of Ontario

Kriegh

Douglas&McIntyre

Krieghoff: Images of Canada

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