Art - Canadian

A poignant story of friendship, discovery, and the power of art to transform lives. Peter Clapham Sheppard was a painter who remained largely unknown until the groundbreaking publication of Peter Clapham Sheppard: His Life and Works reintroduced him and his work to Canadian audiences....

Now in its third edition, Heraldry in Northern Canada chronicles the incorporation of artwork, culture and traditions of Indigenous groups and Northern Canadians. Never before attempted, this series records the symbolism and references used in Canadian heraldry of armorial bearings granted to Northern Canadians....

Artist couple James Lightle (retired Canadian Veteran, injured during the Afghanistan Conflict), and Jaime Lee Lightle (Art Therapist), chronicle their road trip across Canada during a historical time in Canada, amidst the COVID-19 crisis. James and Jaime Lee travelled from their home in Round...

Sybil Andrews was one of Canada's most prominent artists working throughout the late twentieth century. From a cottage by the sea in Campbell River, Andrews created striking linocut prints steeped in feeling and full of movement. Inspired by the working-class community that she lived...

Sé amus Gallagher: OH BABY combines photography video, drag, speculative fiction, sculpture, and costuming to interrogate ideas of gender and the environment, using a forest fire that broke out in Arizona in 2017 following a gender reveal explosion as a spark of inspiration. Considering...

" Colleen Wolstenholme's work is cerebral and direct, esoteric and popular, easy to look at and hard to forget." -- Ray Cronin Colleen Wolstenholme: Hyperobjectivity showcases Wolstenholme's painting, sculpture, and installations from a career spanning more than thirty years. Taking its name from the...

In 2015, the Dutch collector Hans van Berkel donated his Inuit (and Chukchi) art and handicraft collection to the National Museum of Ethnology, now National Museum of World Cultures. Starting in the early 1970s, Mr. van Berkel built up the most important private Inuit-related...

BRICKBRICKBRICK is background reading brought to the forefront.With this new collection, poet Mark Laliberte presents a series of visual meditations on the subject of " poetics." Like much of his recent output, this project hovers around--but never quite steps into--the cultural zone that pure,...

A series of energetic and vivid portraits that capture the character and integrity of rural life Outsider artist Mendelson Joe is a painter, activist, musician, and renowned "self-taughter." But to the people living in the sparsely populated region west of Algonquin Park, he is...

A celebration of the whole of Claire Wilks' work and her presence in the world as a woman of great character and a singular artist, the book presents her career--with ample selections of her drawings, sculptures, and monoprints--including appearances in Rome, Stockholm, Jerusalem, Zagreb,...

In Facets of Eros, David Sobelman, an award-winning writer of documentaries, explores the early drawings of Canadian artist Claire Wilks, their presciently feminist visual vocabulary. He does so by looking at the drawings--so open in their sexuality, so puzzling in their vision of motherhood,...

Inspired by the distinguished painter Paul-Émile Borduas, this collective manifesto serves as an invaluable introduction to the major figures of the Canadian avant-garde scene in the 1970s. Generously illustrated with photographs from the period, this classic text details the social and political implications of...

A romantic view of 19th-century Canada -- a domestic complement to the work of Bartlett, Constable, and Kane.Anthony Flower (1792-1875) lived and worked in New Brunswick for most of his life. A farmer with a lifelong passion for art, he painted until his death...

Thoughts on Driving to Venus documents the thoughts, memories and impressions of Canadian artist Christopher Pratt as he drives across Newfoundland in search of inspiration.Author: Christopher PrattISBN-10: 0889843848ISBN-13: 9780889843844Publisher: Porcupine's QuillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2015Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.50w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Foreword 07/20/2016

No present without the past. No equality without feminism.Nekt wikuhpon ehpit chronicles the sources, inspiration, and personal circumstances that have shaped Shirley Bear's visual art, poetry, and political activism and presents the integral relationship amongst these important activities in her life.Countering the invisible silent...

The eighth in an on-going, near thirty-year collaboration between Stratford wood engraver Gerard Brender à Brandis and the Porcupine's Quill that started in 1980 with the publication of Wood, Ink & Paper, which has sold almost 5000 copies in 28 years.Twenty-four new engravings which...

In the Book of Hours, award-winning wood engraver George A. Walker creates a modern-day, secular devotional that captures in narrative imagery what is too devastating for words: the individual moments of innocence and routine life that ended with the onslaught of 9/11.Author: George A....

In this wordless poem, the invasion of a malevolent corporate regime causes a peaceful society to become embroiled in disquiet and savage upheaval.Author: Steven McCabeISBN-10: 0889843716ISBN-13: 9780889843714Publisher: Porcupine's QuillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2014Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.50w x 1.10dReview Citation(s): Foreword 03/03/2015

An elegant little alphabet book for adults using original wood engravings of flowers to represent each of the twenty-six letters. Uniform in format with the bestselling Wood, Ink & Paper (Porcupine's Quill, 1980).Author: Gerard Brender À. BrandisISBN-10: 0889843112ISBN-13: 9780889843110Publisher: Porcupine's QuillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2008Pages: 64Format:...

Before the Canadian Government ended the jet interceptor project Urquhart, then a young artist, was consumed by a wish to design a hood ornament for the new fighter aircraft. He was hard to console when he first learned that the plane would not have...

Oddballs is wood engraver Jim Westergard's collection of forty portraits and brief biographical sketches of historical figures who gained fame-or notoriety-through curious behavior and circumstance.Author: Jim WestergardISBN-10: 0889843899ISBN-13: 9780889843899Publisher: Porcupine's QuillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/2015Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.50w x 0.40dReview Citation(s): Foreword 08/02/2016

The first comprehensive history of abstract painting in Canada, a history that is little known to the rest of the art world but one that is rich in texture, abundant in innovations and ripe for international discovery.Author: Roald NasgaardISBN-10: 1553653947ISBN-13: 9781553653943Publisher: Douglas & McIntyreLanguage:...

Spells from the Homestead exists because I needed somewhere to put this year of my life. It was a year where the house called out. The land insisted. Ungovernable thoughts were sometimes briefly willing to be words. Forever chasing light in photographs, dreaming in...

Tracks: The Art and Times of Switchman Joe, by Joe Varro celebrates Joe Varro's railway paintings, his bunkhouse sketches in pencil, prints, personal photographs, watercolors and paintings in oil and acrylic. This book is also a social history and features Joe's narrative, a unique...

This Is Not a Hoax shows how the work of some contemporary artists and writers intentionally disrupts the curatorial and authorial practices of the country's most respected cultural institutions: art galleries, museums, and book publishers. This first-ever study of contemporary Canadian hoaxes in visual...

In just three winters Tom Thomson created all of his masterworks, an achievement sometimes overshadowed by incredible mastery of oil sketches and his untimely death.David Kearn and France Laliberté take us on a voyage of discovery through the poignant winters of 1914/15, 1915/16 and...

From the massive canvases painted by official war artists to the tiniest of personal sketches by amateur soldiers, Witness: Canadian Art of the First World War examines how Canadians captured their First World War experiences, both at home and overseas, in a variety of...

In the first AGO Collection Highlights published since 2013, the Art Gallery of Ontario presents over 150 works from the gallery's permanent collection, ranging from Renaissance masterpieces to contemporary works of art. Here, readers will find paintings by European old masters; foundational Canadian canvases...

Famous Paintings: Madonnas is a book written by Henry Turner Bailey that features a collection of iconic paintings of the Madonna, the mother of Jesus Christ, by renowned artists throughout history. The book includes detailed descriptions of each painting, as well as information about...

Edward Mitchell Bannister was a Black Canadian American artist whose pastoral landscapes and seascapes made him a well-known painter in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Born in Saint Andrews, NB, Bannister spent the early part of his career in Boston before moving...

Born in 1919 in the Black community of Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, Harold Cromwell was a descendant of the Black Loyalists who settled in the area in 1783. He was also a prolific folk artist with an acute talent for observation. His meticulous, textured...

We are proud to bring you Devour: Art & Lit Canada - issue 019 - ISSN 2561-1321. Devour is dedicated to the Canadian cultural voice. Find some of Canada's finest literary and visual talent from coast to coast to coast, featured in every issue....

Fort Frances 15 short stories Charm and Character of the town and region and peopleAuthor: S. WampmanISBN-10: 1466267828ISBN-13: 9781466267824Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/25/2011Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.41d

Author: Mireille EaganISBN-10: 148710412XISBN-13: 9781487104122Publisher: Canadian Art LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/29/2026Pages: 160Format: Hardcover

At a time when few were working professionally with cameras, Hannah Maynard (1834-1918) made history with her boundless creativity and entrepreneurial acumen, becoming the first woman in British Columbia to establish a professional photography studio. In 1863, just a little over two decades after...

A tribute to the iconic watercraft--an enduring symbol of national identity--as depicted through 200 years of Canadian art. With its origins in commerce and Indigenous culture, and its status as a modern cultural emblem, the canoe serves as a link between Canada's rugged history...

Broken Glosa is a lament, exultation, beat improvisation, pop incantation, mantric visitation, and resounding of the bardic emanation. It is a prayer, and all that seems in ruins in the world is reborn in celebration here, in the continuous song of the cosmic and...

The years between 1922 and 1961, often referred to as the "Dark Ages of Northwest Coast art," have largely been ignored by art historians, and dismissed as a period of artistic decline. Tales of Ghosts compellingly reclaims this era, arguing that it was instead...

In 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto--a representative global city in this multicultural country--stages diversity through its many intercultural theater companies and troupes. The book begins with a theoretical introduction...

In the wake of the attacks of 11 September 2001, and amid the expansion of US-led security policy, surveillance quickly insinuated itself into the fabric of everyday life in Canada. Practices once confined to military and intelligence operations now shape civilian spaces, where observation...

In 1965, Viktor Tinkl, a sculptor and later a teacher at Ontario College of Art, bought a schoolhouse in the farmland near Vallentyne, Ontario. Judith Wild joined him a few months later. Their combined vision created the Tinkl's spectacular home, galleries and sculpture gardens....

Japanese Color Prints is a book published in 1920 that features the works of Toyokuni, Utagawa Ichiyosai, a prominent Japanese artist known for his woodblock prints. The book includes a collection of colorful and intricate prints that showcase the artist's skills in capturing the...

This beautifully crafted collection showcases Fox's artworks created over decades from his beloved Venice -- the Paradise of Cities. Accompanying an exhibition at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery opening in July 2025, the volume shows the artist's evolution from painting the heart of Venice to...

Weaving together forty-five years of artistic practice, I Use All the Colours follows the creative journey of Joyce Majiski. As one of Northern Canada's most prolific visual artists, Majiski has built an unconventional life in the boreal forest, honing her skills outside the formal...

This collection of ten chapters and three original interviews with Québécois filmmakers focuses on the past two decades of Quebec cinema and takes an in-depth look at a (primarily) Montreal-based filmmaking industry whose increasingly diverse productions continue to resist the hegemony of Hollywood and...

"The Canadian Portrait Gallery, Volume 3" offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of prominent figures in 19th-century Canada. This volume features a collection of biographical sketches accompanied by detailed portraits, providing insight into the individuals who shaped the nation's history and culture. From...

Lotus: Special Holiday Number In Memoriam James A. McNeill Whistler is a book written by Matsuki, Bunkio and published in 1903. The book is a tribute to the famous American artist James A. McNeill Whistler, who had recently passed away. The book is a...

Winner, Best Atlantic Published Book AwardShortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionWriting early in 1962, Lucy Jarvis said she felt "just at the threshold of beginning." Jarvis had studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in the 1920s, later becoming part...

Winter Count draws inspiration from the Plains First Nations practices of recording significant events each winter, a visual reminder that helps structure histories and traditions passed down to future generations. This handsome volume explores how winter has long shaped Indigenous, Canadian settler, and northern...

The Kingston Prize: Canada's Portrait Competition presents over 250 extraordinary contemporary portraits by Canadian artists, celebrating the finalists and winners of the first nine editions of one of the country's leading portrait competitions. Founded in 2005 in Kingston, Ontario, the Kingston Prize is a...