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The Pocket Guide to the Unheralded Artists of BC Series: The Life and Art Of-Jack Akroyd, George Fertig, Mary Filer, Jack Hardman, Edythe Hembroff-Sch
A valuable art history guide to the in-depth Unheralded Artists of BC series. This small attractive full-colour book, will gather thirteen forgotten and accomplished artists from the acclaimed Unheralded Artists of BC series (ten books), in one place, for the first time. A summary of each artist's life and art from the early 1900's to the 1980s, will tempt art and history lovers to investigate the in-depth series more fully. In British Columbia between 1900 and the 1960s over 16,000 artists worked and lived. It was the height of an immense creative surge in the province. Beyond the handful of names of successful artists there is little documented evidence of the other artists of those times. Art was made invisible by socioeconomic or political forces and also by a lack of public galleries. "Those artists that worked the system got recognition and those that didn't, disappeared from view."-Lorna Farrell-Ward, former curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery
The Life and Art of George Fertig
George Fertig was a Jungian, a socialist, a symbolist and an outsider. For 40 years he struggled to survive as as artist in Vancouver, British Columbia. Part biography and part memoir, as told by his eldest daughter, this book includes fourteen years of research, interviews, letters and over one hundred and fifty rare photographs. Born in Alberta in 1915 George Fertig's creative passion began at age twenty with photography during the Depression and World War II. He lived in Fruitvale BC and was a member of the infamous Trail Mine Mill Union in the '30s. George Fertig's unique oil paintings have found no duplication in Canada. They range from early landscapes, to large powerful archetypal images and small numinous meditations on eternity.
The Life and Art of Ina D.D. Uhthoff
Ina Duncan Dewar Uhthoff (1889-1971). A key figure in the cultural history of Victoria, contemporary of Emily Carr, Uhthoff was a single parent, an artist, teacher, and art critic for the Times Colonist. Born in Scotland she trained at the Glasgow School of Art came to Canada in 1913 and lived in the Kootenays. Founder of the Victoria School of Art and prime mover in the founding of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Her work is in the permanent collection at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Maltwood Art Museum & Gallery, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Glenbow Museum.
The Life and Art of Arthur Pitts
Arthur Pitts' (1889-1972) fascinating story includes life as an artist in Vancouver in the 1920s and 1930s. His fascination with indigenous cultures, led him to travel over 4,000 miles in British Columbia and Alaska, producing a large body of watercolours and sketches that focused on Coast Salish, Tlingit, and Ktunaxa First Nations. He lived for over 30 years in Saanichton.
The Life and Art of David Marshall
Part biography, part art history, part art commentary and first in the new series: The Unheralded Artists of BC, this book tells the story of a prodigious sculptor whose artistic legacy is known to only a few collectors, fellow sculptors and curators. Illustrated throughout with rare colour photographs, the lively, wide ranging text is based on original interviews, letters and diaries. A resident of Vancouver from his early twenties on, Marshall was admired as a master carver but also worked extensively in bronze. At a time when conceptual and installation art dominated, he worked in the Modernist tradition he shared with his friend, Henry Moore, who was one of many influences. His work is at the Van Dusen Gardens. He was a founding member of the Sculptors' Society of British Columbia. He died in 2006. Introduction by Brooks Joyner former Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery in BC.
The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thornton
Short-listed for the 2012 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize Mildred Valley Thornton (1890 1967) (HON. CPA, FRSA) was born in Ontario. Portraits of the First Nations peoples of Western Canada became the genius loci of her oeuvre. During the Depression, her family moved to Vancouver. She became an advocate for First Nations peoples and made important historical contributions to British Columbian art and culture. Thornton was also a noted journalist, Vancouver Sun art critic(1944 1959), book reviewer and published poet. Before she died, Thornton unsuccessfully tried to interest Canadian institutions in purchasing her collection of approximately 300 portraits of First Nations peoples of Canada....
The Life and Art of Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher
A painter and writer of note, Edythe was known mainly as Emily Carr's friend and sketching partner and later Special Consultant on Emily Carr for the provincial government. Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, she spent her youth growing up near Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria. Trained in painting and drawing by the island traditionalist Margaret Kitto, Edythe also studied at the California School of Arts and Crafts and in Paris, France. Upon her return to Canada, she met Emily with whom she experienced well-documented sketching trips. She exhibited with the B.C. Society of Artists and the Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists in Seattle. Her books include The Untold Story of Emily Carr and M.E. A portrayel of Emily Carr. Her work is held in the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the University of Victoria Legacy Art Gallery, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the BC Archives.
The Life and Art of Jack Akroyd
Includes reproductions of art from galleries and private collections.
The Life and Art of Harry and Jessie Webb
Harry (1927-1995) and Jessie Webb (1930-2011) were among an important and influential group of artists, poets and jazz musicians working in Vancouver and the North Shore in the 1950s. They met at the Vancouver School of Art and worked collaboratively for nearly a decade on a series of innovative progressive prints made with linoleum blocks. Their works were featured in exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery, The Burnaby Art Gallery and in print through-out the 1950s. They were very involved in Vancouver's local jazz scene designing posters for the legendary Cellar Jazz Club. Harry Webb later became a landscape architect and helped found the BC Society of Landscape Architects. His company designed the Park & Tilford Gardens in the North Shore, The Bayshore Inn, Centennial Square in Victoria etc. Jessie Webb would go on to write poetry and design murals. Their early work was featured in Vancouver typographer Robert Reid's pm magazine. The couple were also featured in Leonard Forest's 1964 National Film Board's In Search of Innocence, a documentary film profiling Vancouver artists and jazz musicians.Their fascinating story is being told by their daughter for the first time.
The Life and Art of Mary Filer
Mary Filer (1920-2016) trained as a nurse and an artist and lived a vibrant and intellectually stimulating life creating dazzling pioneer work in ‘cool’ glass art sculpture in Victoria and Vancouver. During the 1950s, Filer studied under Group of Seven artist Arthur Lismer and painter John Lyman and taught university art. Her involvement with architects and her partnership with Harold Spence-Sales, who started the first School of Urban Planning in Canada at McGill University, led to a honourary doctorate from Simon Fraser University in 1991 and an Allied Arts Silver Medal from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 1992. Major examples of her sculpture are at SFU Harbour Centre and the Vancouver General Hospital. Her work is in numerous collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Toronto Art Gallery, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
