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Rocks

Franklin Carmichael, Arthur Lismer and the Group of Seven

by (author) Joan Murray

Publisher
Joan Murray
Initial publish date
Sep 2013
Category
Canadian, Landscapes

  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781552786161
    Publish Date
    Sep 2013
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

Rocks continues Joan Murray’s thematic series of art books based on the Group of Seven, but this time she has chosen to mine a formidable subject, focussing particularly on the images of Canada’s natural beauty by Arthur Lismer and Franklin Carmichael.

Murray concentrates on the preference of the Group of Seven for painting tremendous rocks, rocks massive and dense, rocks that were created at the beginning of the world, rocks that compose Canada and have affected Canadians. The Group of Seven were like the rocks themselves, solid men who wanted to create in paint “an everlasting beauty.”

Murray has marshalled an impressive group of paintings—some quite well known. Awesome to behold, the rock of Canada posed regally for the Group of Seven, and the paintings in this book convey a strong view of the country’s majesty.

About the author

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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