"A like vision is a lavish celebration of the legacy of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, Canada's canonical landscape painters. The Group's depiction of the rugged beauty of the Canadian landscape - from the coastal mountains of British Columbia to the north shore of Lake Supe...
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"Maud Lewis: Paintings for Sale accompanies a major exhibition of the artist's work at the McMichael Collection of Canadian Art and--featuring many paintings previously unseen by the public--is the most in-depth book on Lewis's art ever produced. The book features a 2,500 word cu...
A monument to the talent of Canadian women artists in the interwar period, 'Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment' provides a full and diverse cross-country survey of the art made by women during this pivotal time, incorporating the work of both settler and Indig...
"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, th...
'Dreaming Forward' features over 150 never-before-seen original drawings by internationally renowned Inuit artists from Kinngait (Cape Dorset). Emily Laurent Henderson is a Kalaaleq (South Greenlandic) person and is the Associate Curator, Indigenous Arts and Culture at the McMich...
"Lawren S. Harris is best known for his iconic landscape paintings that declare a sense of cool Canadian resilience. Yet, in the 1920s, an audacious and more colourful interior world began to emerge in his work, and by 1934, he had taken a seemingly unexpected turn toward a trans...
"While working as a trapline manager in Northern Ontario during the 1950s and 1960s, John Macfie, a Canadian of Scottish heritage, formed deep and lasting relationships with the people of the Indigenous communities in the region. As he travelled the vast expanse of the Hudson Bay...
Thomson's death in 1917 triggered the formation of the Group of Seven and the ascendancy of landscape painting as a national preoccupation. This is the first book to focus on Thomson's small-scale sketches and brings together a variety of voices to interpret his legacy with fresh...
Based on the first full-scale solo museum exhibition and drawing from extensive interviews with the artist, this book presents the story of Dempsey Bob's life told his own way, including extensive and intimate reflections on the creation of particular works. Gorgeous photographs ...
"The Art of Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, is a comprehensive and diverse examination of the impact and lasting influence of Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, the last member of the Group of Seven, joining in 1932, and the only member to live in western Canada. Co-curated by Sarah Milroy, C...
Provides information on Inuit art, the artists' lives, and brief histories of the region the artists live in.
Over three generations, the Sobey family of Nova Scotia has stewarded the legacies of Canadian art. Accompanying a major exhibition at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the prestigious Sobey Art Award, Generations tells the s...
"Published to accompany an exhibition on Trinidadian-Canadian artist, Denyse Thomasos, co-curated by Sarah Milroy and Gaëtane Verna. Denyse Thomasos (1964-2012) was a leading Trinidadian-Canadian painter whose epic paintings gather imagery drawn from a range of sources: woven Ca...