The McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Book 1989

"The McMichael Canadian art Collection has a unique mandate to celebrate the art of Canada, which it does within a great building in beautiful grounds overlooking the Humber River Valley. Originally a home completed in 1954 for entrepreneur Robert McMichael and his wife Signe, the building became an unofficial gallery when they began allowing passers-by and school parties inside to view their art collection. In 1965, they took the visionary step...

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ISBN:

9780075499527
0772957452
0075499525

Edition:

Twenty-fifth anniversary edition

Description:

175 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 x 27 cm

Notes:

Includes index

Contents:

Preface / Barbara Tyler
Introduction / Jean Blodgett
Part I: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven / Megan Bice. Tom Thomson ; J.E.H. MacDonald ; Lawren Harris ; A. Y. Jackson ; Arthur Lismer ; F. H. Varley ; Frank Johnston ; Franklin Carmichael ; A. J. Casson ; Edwin Holgate ; Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald
Part II: Beyond the Group : predecessors, contemporaries, and successors / David Wistow. James Wilson Morrice ; Clarence Gagnon ; Emily Carr ; David Milne ; The Canadian Group of Painters
Part III: The art of the Inuit / Jean Blodgett
Part IV: Canadian Indian art / Lee-Ann Martin

LCCN:

90163734

Control Number:

31570

Other Authors:

Blodgett, Jean, 1945-

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