""Lasting Impressions" presents one of Canada s most extensive art collections, with works from William Blair Bruce's "Phantom of the Snow" (1888) to Alex Colville's "Horse and Train" (1954). Three major essays examine the issues of collection building, Canadian modernism and the concept of the icon in Canadian art; a fourth essay outlines the recent conservation of Colville's "Horse and Train."""
The French Connection Canadian Painters at the Paris Salons 1880-1900 by TobiBruce, Patrick Shaw Cable Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2011 by Art Gallery Of Hamilton ISBN-13: 978-1-897407-10-3, ISBN: 1-897407-10-6
"For Canadian artists working in the last quarter of the 19th century, the lure of Paris was irresistible. With its teaching and exhibition opportunities, international artists flocked to the City of Lights in search of education and artistic validation. Indeed, during this period, an extended stay in Paris became an artistic rite of passage, with increasing numbers of Canadians boarding steamships to make their way across the Atlantic t ..."
"A stunningly illustrated look at the ways in which women artists have given profound expression to their identities from colonial times to 1970. From Pauline Johnson's performance costumes representing her dual Mohawk and Euro-Canadian identity to Emily Carr's painting of herself from the back at her easel, from Hannah Maynard's playful photographs of her multiple selves to Pitseolak Ashoona's sly comment on her participation in the Inu ..."
"Throughout a career that spanned from mid-1950s until his death, William Kurelek (1927-1977) and his art have meant many different things to many people. Widely-known as a painter of innocence and childhood memories whose scenes hearken back to a simpler and timeless past, Kurelek was also a chronicler of the experiences of various cultural groups in Canada, devoting entire series to Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish, Irish, French Canadian, an ..."
"A Cultivating Journey examines the collection of significant European historical and modern art donated to the McMaster Museum of Art by Herman Levy in 1984, and includes works by Courbet, Derain, Monet, Pissarro and Van Gogh. Today the production of such a project raises the critical question: how does the museum collect in the twenty-first century? This would have been a much easier consideration when the Levy donation entered the mus ..."
"Into the Light is a major retrospective of the work of William Blair Bruce (1859–1906), Canada's first Impressionist artist. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Bruce spent his early career in France, where he became one of the group of international artists who studied alongside Claude Monet at Giverny, later moving to Sweden, where he built his home and studio.With remarkable paintings, some on loan from the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, as wel ..."
"Canada's landscape and how people relate to it have been predominant themes in Canadian painting. Exploration of this vast and richly varied environment, people's place within it and their attitudes toward it have been driving forces in Canadian art since the beginning of secular imagery in the country. Whether it was early artists such as Robert Clow Todd and Cornelius Krieghoff documenting the winter wonderland of nineteeth-century Qu ..."
"They've been called cheeky pranksters but the immersive installations created by the artistic collective lampoon consumer culture with a razor-sharp wit. BGL's exhibitions have included the staging of an ornamental tree factory, a bonfire and a flea market; and their urban carousel made from security fences and lampposts joyously greeted visitors at MASS MoCA's 2012 exhibition, Oh Canada. Through their ingeniously-crafted works, BGL rep ..."
Lumina approaching a new photographic aesthetic by TobiBruce, Shirley Madill 26 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-13: 978-0-919153-62-2, ISBN: 0-919153-62-3
"She was already exhibiting with the Royal Society of British Artists and the
Society of Women Artists when she immigrated to Canada in ... In 1939, the year
he married writer Margaret Day, Surrey replaced Jack Humphrey as the sixth
member of the Eastern Group of ... In 1943 and 1944, the CAS boycotted the aam
Spring Exhibition because of its academic jury; in 1945, as a ... Soon, however,
he decided to paint full-time, working occa ..."
"Gary Indiana's collected columns of art criticism from the Village Voice, documenting, from the front lines, the 1980s New York art scene.In 1985, the Village Voice offered me a job as senior art critic. This made my life easier and lousy at the same time. I now had to actually enter all those galleries instead of peeking in the windows. At times, the only tangible perk was having the chump for a fifth of vodka whenever twenty more phon ..."
"Approximately 125 masterworks by some 35 artists situate Canadian art within the global phenomenon of ImpressionismA detailed chronology explores the multifaceted ways in which Canadians contributed to the evolution of ImpressionismFollow these Canadian artists as they travel abroad and return home again, over a series of journeys taking place during the last decades of the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth. Approximately ..."
"Trente artistes, environ quatre-vingts tableaux. Tel est le contenu de ce livre qui vise à ouvrir une nouvelle perspective sur l’accueil et la diffusion de la poétique impressionniste au Canada au tournant du XXe siècle, et plus particulièrement entre 1880 et 1930. L’ouvrage, qui accompagne une exposition novatrice sur le sujet, rassemble les chefs-d’œuvre célèbres de certains des peintres impressionnistes canadiens les plus connus, pro ..."