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Painting Canada : Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven
- Title
- Painting Canada : Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven / [edited by Amy Concannon ; curator, Ian A.C. Dejardin].
- Author
- Thomson, Tom, 1877-1917.
- Publication
- London : Philip Wilson ; New York, NY : Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, c2011.
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- Description
- 216 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map; 29 cm.
- Summary
- "In early twentieth-century Toronto, Canada, the first stirrings of a new movement of painting were being felt. A group of artists started to engage with the awesome Canadian wilderness, a landscape previously considered too wild and untamed to inspire true art. Leading the way was Tom Thomson. In little more than three years of electrifying creativity before his premature death in 1917 he formulated an artistic language that captured the unique qualities of the Canadian landscape. Three years later his friends--Lawren Harris, J.E.H. MacDonald, Arthur Lismer, Frederick Varley, Frank Johnston, Franklin Carmichael and A.Y. Jackson--formed the Group of Seven. They built on Thomson's legacy to produce a landscape style that to this day influences the way Canadians visualise their country, and their paintings are national icons in Canada. This book tells of the Group's collective quest to depict Canada in paint. It recounts their beginnings, the challenges they faced and the remarkable and often extreme journeys they undertook in search of new subject matter. Essays explore the artists' relationship with the Arctic north, and analyse Thomson's art through the prism of the prevalent scientific theories of the day. A fresh, European perspective on these Canadians is offered in essays exploring their links with Scandinavian art and European expressionism. Beautifully illustrated with over 120 colour reproductions of their work, and maps indicating the geographical range covered by this selection of paintings, this book offers an insight into the history of this important--yet little-known in Europe--artistic movement."--Publisher's website.
- Subjects
- Note
- "Dulwich Picture Gallery."
- Published to accompany exhibition organized by Dulwich Picture Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada, in collaboration with the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, and the Groninger Museum.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207) and index.
- Contents
- Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven / Ian A.C. Dejardin -- Landscape atomysticism: a revelation of Tom Thomson / Anna Hudson -- Defining the north: searching for a visual language / Katerina Atanassova -- "This is what we want to do with Canada": reflections of Scandinavian landscape painting in the work of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven / Nils Ohlsen -- Terra incognita : the Group of Seven and the European expressionist landscape tradition / Mariëtta Jansen -- Catalogue / Ian A.C. Dejardin -- Tom Thomson -- Algonquin -- Georgian Bay -- Southern Ontario and Algoma -- Quebec -- The Canadian Rockies and British Colombia -- Lawren Harris: Lake Superior, North Shore, Rockies and the Arctic -- Canadian nature and its painters / Wyndham Lewis.
- Call Number
- JQF 12-794
- ISBN
- 9780856677083 (hbk.)
- 0856677086 (hbk.)
- 9780856676864 (pbk.)
- 0856676861 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 751718437
- Author
- Thomson, Tom, 1877-1917.
- Title
- Painting Canada : Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven / [edited by Amy Concannon ; curator, Ian A.C. Dejardin].
- Imprint
- London : Philip Wilson ; New York, NY : Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207) and index.
- Added Author
- Concannon, Amy.Dejardin, Ian A. C., 1955-Dulwich Picture Gallery.National Gallery of Canada.Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design (Norway)Groninger Museum.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 12-794