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Franz Johnston is the missing man of Canadian painting. The most prolific and financially successful of the original Group of Seven, Johnston's paintings were among the most sought after in Canada in the years between the mid-1920s and his death in 1949. They appear in the collections of dozens of discriminating private collectors, and in institutions such as the National Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the McMichael Canadian Collection, and the Canadian War Museum. As well, his work once hung, in thousands of well-loved reproductions, on the walls of ordinary people's homes the length and breadth of the country. And yet, for all his distinguished success, Johnston is no more than a footnote in the many histories of the Group of Seven, and is rarely mentioned in the context of the general development of art in Canada in the twentieth century.
Johnston was born and raised in Toronto, worked with J.E.H. MacDonald, Fred Varley, Arthur Lismer, and Franklin Carmichael at Grip, the famous commercial art studio in Toronto, and served with distinction as an official war artist in the last years of the First World War. He subsequently taught at the art schools in Winnipeg and Toronto (he was the principal of the Winnipeg Art School and Gallery for four years in the early 1920s) before opening his own art school on the shores of Georgian Bay. When the Group of Seven held its first, seminal exhibition at the Art Museum of Toronto in May 1920, Johnston exhibited and sold more paintings than any of the others.
In this, the first biography of Franz Johnston, the author seeks to provide a guide to the life, work, and times of this unjustly neglected, but influential figure in Canadian art and culture. Beautifully illustrated with sixteen four-colour reproductions of Johnston's best paintings, and rare black-and-white photographs from a family collection and other sources.
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Roger Burford Mason moved with his wife and son from England to Toronto in 1988. Since then he has published two collections of short stories, a collection of travel essays, two biographies, and a book about Canada. He has written for many Canadian, U.S., and British magazines and newspapers, and has broadcast on a number of Canadian radio stations. He is the editorial director of a group of business publications, and a contributing editor of Canadian Notes & Queries. Among his previously published books are: Telling the Bees (Hounslow, 1990); The Beaver Picture (Hounslow, 1992); Travels in the Shining Island: The Life of the Rev. James Evans (Natural History/Natural Heritage, 1996); Roy Vernon Sowers: A Life in Rare Books
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. pp. 100. Square 4to. Bound in beige cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Colour plates, black and white illustrations. Light shelfwear; very good in lightly rubbed, very good dustjacket. Codice articolo 055360
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.15. Codice articolo G1550023055I3N00
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.15. Codice articolo G1550023055I3N00
Descrizione libro Hard Cover. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG. 100pp. with b/w and colour illustrations. Light creasing from page handling, waviness to the paper and light soil to outer edges. DJ has edge/rub wear and light creasing. Actual book for sale pictured. 23.5 x 24.3 x 1.3cm, wt700g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Codice articolo 028368
Descrizione libro Condizione: very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. 8vo pp.100. book. Codice articolo 294375
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 100pp. [16pp] colour plates. Tan boards w bright gold lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Colour illustrated DJ is clean and without wear. Octavo: 245 x 235mm. Codice articolo 047930
Descrizione libro [1-55002-305-5] 1998, 1st printing. (Square 4to) Fine in fine dust jacket. 100pp. Black & white and color illustrations, photographs, bibliography. Art of Franz Johnston. (Art--Canada, Artists--Canada). Codice articolo 157020