Works by A.Y. Jackson from the 1930s

Works by A.Y. Jackson from the 1930s
Author: Naomi Groves
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 49
Release: 1990-12-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0773573666

This volume by A.Y. Jackson's niece provides fascinating insights into the man and his work at a time the author calls "a rugged-romantic high point in A.Y.'s life." The illustrations reproduced and discussed come mainly from the Carleton University Art Collection. Groves places the works in the context of Canadian art history and social history.

A.Y. Jackson

A.Y. Jackson
Author: Wayne Larsen
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2009-09-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1459715276

A founding member of the Group of Seven, Jackson portrayed the Canadian landscape in a bold and inventive manner, illustrating a key chapter in Canadas coming of age.

A.Y. Jackson

A.Y. Jackson
Author: Wayne Larsen
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1894852060

A founding member of the Group of Seven, A.Y. Jackson portrayed the Canadian landscape in a bold and inventive manner. His paintings show us the vastness and diversity of our country and illustrate a key chapter in the story of Canada's coming of age as a nation.

A Painter's Country

A Painter's Country
Author: Alexander Young Jackson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1967
Genre: Painters
ISBN:

Includes an additional chapter. Canadian landscape artist who painted scenes of Canada from coast to coast and well in to the arctic north.

Defiant Spirits

Defiant Spirits
Author: Ross King
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Total Pages: 3
Release: 2010-09-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1553658078

Beginning in 1912, Defiant Spirits traces the artistic development of Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley, over a dozen years in Canadian history. Working in an eclectic and sometimes controversial blend of modernist styles, they produced what an English critic celebrated in the 1920s as the “most vital group of paintings” of the 20th century. Inspired by Cézanne, Van Gogh and other modernist artists, they tried to interpret the Ontario landscape in light of the strategies of the international avant-garde. Based after 1914 in the purpose-built Studio Building for Canadian Art, the young artists embarked on what Lawren Harris called “an all-engrossing adventure”: travelling north into the anadian Shield and forging a style of painting appropriate to what they regarded as the unique features of Canada’s northern landscape. Rigorously researched and drawn from archival documents and letters, Defiant Spirits constitutes a “group biography,” reconstructing the men’s aspirations, frustrations and achievements. It details not only the lives of Tom Thomson and the members of the Group of Seven but also the political and social history of Canada

The Beaver Hall Group 2-Book Bundle

The Beaver Hall Group 2-Book Bundle
Author: Evelyn Walters
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2017-02-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1459739221

From the vanguard of Modernism in Montreal, the Beaver Hall Group included painters who are now ranked among Canada's most distinguished artists. Evelyn Walters brings her extensive knowledge of the group to paint a picture of the artists' lives and their works in this two-book bundle. More than 130 reproductions bring to light paintings that have lain hidden for more than fifty years. Includes: The Beaver Hall Group and Its Legacy The Women of Beaver Hall

Light for a Cold Land

Light for a Cold Land
Author: Peter Larisey
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1993-01-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1554882141

Lawren Stewart Harris’ artistic career began in the first decade of our century. Well known for the nationalist-inspired landscapes that he painted between 1908 and 1932, Harris turned resolutely in 1934 to the painting of abstractions. He continued to create works that reflected his own modernist and mystical developments until the end of his life. Canadians praise Harris’ landscapes and admire him as a planner of innovative and heroic-sounding sketching trips into the North. He is also recognized as the chief organizer of the Group of Seven. A long list of younger artists he considered creative greatly benefited from Harris’ encouragement and often generous, practical help; many of them have been interviewed for this book. In the lives of some Canadians harris still functions as a gurulike guide – a role he was quite content to take on during his own lifetime – because of the spiritual content of his art and aesthetic writings and the example of his optimistic, vigorous and apparently untroubled life. But Harris’ was not an untroubled life, and Light for a Cold Land examines his personal crises and difficulties, some of which caused important changes in his art. The book also uncovers the painting styles, artistic tensions and cultural dynamics of the German milieu in which Harris received his only formal art education. His student years in Berlin profoundly influenced not only his art but also his artistic politics and his philosophy. It is ironic that in the art of this most articulate of Canadian nationalist painters, there are extensive German influences. Light for a Cold Land is the first art-historical study of Lawren Harris that attempts to explore his life and all aspects of his career. It is based on extensive work in archives, libraries, public art galleries and private collections in Canada, as well as research in Germany and interviews with members of Harris’ family and many of his friends, acquaintances, colleagues and critics.

Art Et Architecture Au Canada

Art Et Architecture Au Canada
Author: Loren Ruth Lerner
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 1646
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780802058560

Identifies and summarizes thousands of books, article, exhibition catalogues, government publications, and theses published in many countries and in several languages from the early nineteenth century to 1981.

The Beaver Hall Group and Its Legacy

The Beaver Hall Group and Its Legacy
Author: Evelyn Walters
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2017-02-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1459737776

An exploration of the lives and works of the members of the Beaver Hall Group. Founded in 1920, the group was in the vanguard of bringing Modernism to Canada and is notable for its inclusion of women who now rank among the country’s most outstanding painters.