Tom Thomson

contributions by Anne Ruggles; John Wadland; Charles Hill; Sandra Webster-Cook; Andrew Hunter; Joan Murray & Robert Stacey
edited by Dennis Reid

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list price: $50.00

edition:Paperback

category: Art

published: 2010

ISBN:9781553654933

publisher: D&M Publishers Inc.

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Called "the art book of the year" and "a triumph of publishing" by the Sun Times, Tom Thomson is now available in paperback. Tom Thomson is one of the first major multi-authored books on this subject, and it has a critical edge that has been missing in the mostly celebratory, decorative works that have come before. The picture that emerges from the essays is complex, contradictory, sometimes even confused, but it's what is needed right now." (Globe and Mail)

In this lavishly illustrated, "comprehensive and compelling account of Tom Thomson's life and times" (Toronto Sun), six expertly written essays reveal the iconic Canadian artist and colleague of the Group of Seven from many different perspectives from his biography and work to the context of the period in which he lived.

This book was published in partnership with the Art Gallery of Ontario.

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Editorial Reviews

"Comprehensive and compelling account of Tom Thomson's life and times"

— Toronto Sun

"Tom Thomson is one of the first major multi-authored books on this subject, and it has a critical edge that has been missing in the mostly celebratory, decorative works that have come before." "

— Globe & Mail

"The art book of the year...a triumph of publishing"

— Sun Times

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About the Authors

Anne Ruggles

Anne Ruggles is Conservator of Paintings at the Art Gallery of Canada.

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John Wadland

John Wadland, Professor of Canadian Studies at Trent University, was Editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies and Director of the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Native Studies.

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Charles Hill

Charles C. Hill, Curator of Canadian Art at the National Gallery of Canada, studied at McGill University and the University of Toronto.

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Dennis Reid

Dennis Reid is a professor of art history at the University of Toronto, where he has taught since 1977. He also worked at the Art Gallery of Ontario from 1979 until 2010, latterly as Director of Collections and Research, and at the National Gallery of Canada from 1967, principally as Curator of Post-Confederation Canadian Art 鴅1 to 1979). The author of numerous publications on Canadian art, including A Concise History of Canadian Painting (third edition forthcoming), he became a Member of the Order of Canada in 1998.

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Sandra Webster-Cook

Sandra Webster-Cook, is a Conservator of Paintings at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

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Andrew Hunter

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Joan Murray

Joan Murray, an independent curator and art historian, is considered one of the most accessible of Canadian art writers and has studied and exhibited Tom Thomson for four decades. Since the late 1960s, she has been a curator of several institutions, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, and director of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa (1974-99) and the McMichael Canadian Art Gallery in Kleinburg (2005-6). Murray was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy in 1992 and has been honoured with the Senior Award from the Association of Cultural Executives, the Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries and the Order of Ontario. She lives in Toronto, Ontario

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