Canadian Art: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario

by Steven Brown (Author), Katerina Atanassova (Author), Jeremy Adamson (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2008

  $5.11

  Together with important First Nations material, the Thomson Canadian Collection is the largest of all private holdings of Canadian art. There are rare and incomparable examples of Northwest Coast Aboriginal art. Krieghoff's inspired accounts of life in the Canadas, prior to Confederation, bring the light and atmosphere of history fully into the present. A staggering power to capture the fleeting and the fugitive in paint still distinguishes the work of the early 20th-century painter Morrice.