Shortlisted, Best Atlantic Published Book Award and Canadian Regional Design Award

A major publication comprising 240 pages with 75 colour plates and 60 black-and-white photographs provides extensive documentation of the exhibition Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery

. Along with a complete catalogue of artworks, it features an overview and history of the historic collection, along with curatorial commentary on each work of art by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery's Curator and Deputy Director, and curator of the exhibition, Terry Graff. Further, it includes important essays by five internationally respected art historians, scholars, and curators, Elliot King, James Hamilton, Richard Calvocoressi, Angus Stewart, and Katharine Eustace, that focus on several key works of art.

In addition, Bernard Riordon, Director and CEO of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, provides a foreword and timely essay documenting the recently resolved legal battle with the Beaverbrook Foundation (UK) over ownership of several works. Elliot King, art historian and leading specialist on the work of Salvador Dalí and curator of the recent exhibition Dalí: The Late Work at the High Museum of Art, examines Dalí's monumental painting Santiago El Grande. James Hamilton, curator and art historian, who has written several books, lectured internationally, and curated several important exhibitions on JMW Turner, examines Turner's Fountain of Indolence. Richard Calvocoressi, Director of the Henry Moore Foundation and former Director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, provides special insight into Lucien Freud's Hotel Bedroom. Angus Stewart, independent curator known for his many exhibitions at the Olympia London fine art and antiques fair, including the major 2003 project that marked the centenary of artist Graham Sutherland's birth, examines important Sutherland works, such as Helena Rubinstein, Studies for Churchill, and Portrait of Lord Beaverbrook. Katharine Eustace, art historian and curator, whose publications include Continuity and Change: Twentieth Century Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, provides a thoughtful essay on Walter Sickert in relation to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery's Sickert paintings, such as H.M. King Edward VIII.

En plus d'être un artiste, un auteur et un éducateur de grand talent, Terry Graff compet parmi les conservateurs et les administrateurs du domaine artistique les plus renommés du Canada. Avant d'occuper ses fonctions actuelles de directeur général et conservateur en chef de la Galerie d'art Beaverbrook de Fredericton au Nouveau-Brunswick, il était directeur général de la tr#&232;s renommeée Mendel Art Gallery de Saskatoon. Il a occupé le poste de directeur et conservateur en chef de deux institutions canadiennes — le Rodman Hall Art Centre de St. Catharines (Ontario) ainsi que le Musée d'art du Centre de la Confédération de Charlottetown (Île-du-Prince-Édouard) — et celui de conservateur-éducateur à l'Art Gallery of Windsor (Ontario). Auteur de nombreuses publications et conservateur chargé de plus de 150 expositions, Terry Graff possède une vision créative et une expertise des arts visuels qui ont laissé une empreinte indélébile sur chacun des musées et des galeries où il a travaillé.

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• Short-listed, Canadian Regional Design Award
• Short-listed, APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award

"Masterworks is a long overdue tribute to the incredible range and depth of Lord Beaverbrook's collection, amassed over his lifetime in England and worldwide."

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