Books

ALEX JANVIERGreg Hill, Lee-Ann Martin and Chris DuekerNational Gallery of Canada, 2016200 pp 100 col. ill. 11 x 9 in softcover A canonical figure in Native American art history, Alex Janvier has maintained a 50-year artistic practice that fuses aboriginal traditions with modernist abstraction. Influenced by Kandinsky and Klee, his murals and works on paper, canvas and linen explore the...

Essay by Ian ThomHardcover, 120 pagesMcMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2020 Generations of Canadian readers have cherished Maria Chapdelaine, a coming-of-age story set in the Quebec countryside. Vivid illustrations by Clarence Gagnon helped make this book a classic. Gagnon created fifty-four small paintings for the novel, which French author Louis Hermon wrote after a trip to Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean in 1912-13. To create...

Author: Sarah Milroyhard cover, 180 pagesMcMichael Canadian Art Collection & Goose Lane Publications. 2019From black cats to iconic snowscapes, Maud Lewis paints our waking dreams.One of Canada's most beloved folk artists, Maud Lewis was famous in her lifetime for her brightly coloured and endearing paintings of rural Nova Scotia. Working from her tiny, road-side house in Marshalltown, she produced hundreds...

One forty-eight page 8½ x 11 in. coloring book with nineteen images to color. Each illustration is reproduced in a small, color version of the original artwork and as a full-page line drawing.Published with the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.Tom Thomson (Canadian, 1877–1917), the sixth of ten children, grew up on a farm near Leith, Ontario (on the shore of Georgian...

softcover - 128 pagesCanadian Museums Association, 2016Celebrate 150 years of Canada’s creative excellence with recipes created by top chefs from across the country inspired by paintings from great Canadian artists from our nation’s museums and galleries. Included are three McMichael Collection inspired recipes!All over the country great chefs from all facets of our industry joined in. We each chose a...

Softcover, 96 pages19 x 17 cmScala Arts Publishers Inc. & McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2018Author - Ian A.C. DejardinThe McMichael Canadian art Collection has a unique mandate to celebrate the art of Canada, which it does within a great building in beautiful grounds overlooking the Humber River Valley. Originally a home completed in 1954 for entrepreneur Robert McMichael and his...

softcover, 115 pagesMcMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2017Hot off the press! Steve Driscoll + Finn O'Hara: Size Matters catalogue in its 1rst edition, includes full colour images of theirs works plus + exhibition shots, studio shots, and a synopsis of some of the works. This book is the perfect take-away from the exhibition.

Lawren Harris & His American ContemporariesRoald Nasgaard & Gwendolyn Owenshardcover, 204 pagesGoose Lane Editions & the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2017Lawren S. Harris is best known for his iconic landscape paintings that declare a sense of cool Canadian resilience. Yet, in the 1920s, an audacious and more colourful interior world began to emerge in his work, and by 1934, the...

McMichael Canadian Art Collection Catalogue: One Hundred MasterworksAuthor - Joan MurraySoftcover - 205 pagesMcMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2006ISBN:9781424902866A treasury of two centuries of Canadian art relating the history of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and its founders, Robert and Signe McMichael.Illustrated are one hundred masterworks from the gallery's permanent collection of close to 6,000 artworks created by some of Canada's...

Authors Sarah Milroy and Ian DejardinSoftcover, 204 pagesDulwich Picture Gallery, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Vancouver Art GalleryThis beautifully illustrated book documents the life and work of David Milne (1882-1953), one of Canada’s greatest modern painters whose vast body of work shows him to be an artist of true originality and vision.With more than 100 works in oil and watercolour, never...

Author: Dr. Sarah StannersEditor: Naomi Potterhardcover, cloth bound,92 pagesEsker Foundation, 2016Jack Bush: In Studio is a lovely accompaniment to the exhibition organized by the Esker Foundation in Calgary. Each painting in this cloth-bound catalogue is flanked by notes on the painting, exhibition history of the piece, and provenance. Photographed at the Esker Foundation, see the paintings hung together for the...

hardcover, 160 pagescolour images, beautiful mylar overlaysMcMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2017Author - Sarah Stanners, with essays by Anna Hudson and Daisy Charles Passion Over Reason: Tom Thomson & Joyce Wieland sits at the intersection of exhibition catalogue and bookwork, serving as a site for documentation and intervention. Independently published by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, with the assistance of Ontario150...

Sarah Milroy, Ian A.C. Dejardin and Michael Parke-Taylorhard cover, 256 pagesMcMichael Canadian Art Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery & Figure 1 Publishing. 2019Accompanying a major exhibition of the work of Winnipeg artist Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in partnership with the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Into the Light: Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald offers the first comprehensive look at...

Author: Dr. Nancy Campbell Translation by Rhoda KayakjuakCo-published by McMichael Canadian Art Collection and Goose Lanehard cover, 170 pagesbilingual English and Inuktitut, printed in CanadaWhen Annie Pootoogook (1969-2016) won the Sobey Art Award in 2006, she cracked the glass ceiling for Inuit art, securing its place in contemporary Canadian art discourse and establishing herself as an artist of international importance....

Lawren Harris: An Introduction to his Life and ArtAuthor - Joan MurraySoftcover - 64 pages, 9 x 9 inchesFirefly Books, 2003ISBN:1-55297-764-1An introduction to one of Canada's favourite painters, Lawren Harris. Includes 54 full colour plates, and a detailed chronology. As one of the original members of the Group of Seven, Lawren Harris has made tracks in the art world painting...

Authors - Jean Blodgett and Marie BouchardWinnipeg Art Gallery, 1986Softcover, 144 pages, 9" x 12"113 Illustrations, 12 in colourBack by popular demand! Jessie Oonark: A Retrospective is a 148-page art exhibition catalogue produced by the Winnipeg Art Gallery to support the travelling exhibition of Jessie Oonark's retrospective. Jessie Oonark (1906-1985) was prolific Inuk artist producing many prints and wall hangings...

Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest CoastAuthor: Ian M. Thomhardcover - 186 pagesDouglas & McIntyre, 2009ISBN: 978-1-55365-414-8In a stunning resurgence over the past few decades, contemporary First Nations artists of the Northwest Coast have established themselves as among the most dynamic and important artists working in North America. Challenging Traditions honours this success by presenting the work...

118 pages, softcoverAuthor: Laurie HamiltonFor many years, Maud Lewis was one of Nova Scotia's best-loved folk painters. In the 1990s she was embraced by the rest of the country when the landmark exhibition of her work The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis travelled across Canada. By the time the tour was over, half a million people had become acquainted with...

A Picasso in the North Country: The Wild Journey of Canadian Artist, Norval Morrisseauauthor - James R. Stevenshard cover - 240 pages - 7 x 10 inches190 colour imagesAhnisnabae Art Gallery, 2011ISBN - 9-780986548-21-5The brilliant and wild painting journey of Canadian artist, Norval Morrisseau is an epic in the international world of art. Norval painted at least 10 000 images...

Author: Dr. Nancy CampbellHardcover, 200 pagesMcMichael Canadian Art Collection & Goose Land Editions, 2019bilingual English and Inuktitut, printed in CanadaItee Pootoogook belonged to a new generation of Inuit artists who are transforming and reshaping the creative traditions that were successfully pioneered by their parents and grandparents in the second half of the 20th century.Itee Pootoogook (1951-2014) was part of a...

Eyes on QuebecTreasures from the Andrée Rhéume Fitzhenry & Robert Fitzhenry CollectionAuthors: Katerina Atanassova, Sharona Adamowicz-Clements, Chris FinnMcMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2014softcover, 75 pagesThis commemorative catalogue features masterpieces by renowned Quebec artists from a private collection, a promised gift to the McMichael that will augment the Collection's permanent holdings on Quebec art. The book includes an introductory essay about the...

116 pages, hardcover20 years after its first publication, the book that charmed them all is back in print in a hardcover gift edition.Maud Lewis has become one of Canada’s favourite folk artists, and her buoyant winter pictures of nature, pets, farm animals, and people at work and play are among her most charming. Her hands were twisted with arthritis, but...

Tom ThomsonAuthors - David Silcox & Harold TownhardcoverRevised edition