Tom Thomson (1877–1917) occupies a prominent position in Canada's national culture and has become a celebrated icon for his magnificent landscapes as well as for his brief life and mysterious death. The shy, enigmatic artist and...
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- Author:Larsen, WayneSummary:
- Author:Walcott, DerekSummary:
Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men. Camille Pissarro, born in 1830, leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris. The poet himself hunts for a detail -- "a slash of pink on the inner thigh...
- Author:Carr, Emily, Switzer, Ann-LeeSummary:
Once available and appreciated only by researchers, these stories remained buried in the British Columbia Archives until 2007. Finally, readers are given a new glimpse into Emily Carr's life with this collection.. Carr began to write...
- Author:Sharman, LindseySummary:
The Writing on the Wall tells the story of artist, curator, writer and activist Dr. Joane Cardinal-Schubert, RCA. Although never claiming to be political and rejecting a feminist label, Cardinal-Schubert's work recognizes that the...
- Author:Laurens, StephanieSummary:
A most eligible gentlemen, Gerrard Debbington is uninterested in marriage; his driving passion is to paint the fabled gardens of Lord Tregonning's estate. When the opportunity arises to paint Lord Tregonning's daughter, he discovers...
- Author:Gilbert, ElizabethSummary:
Spanning the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this enthralling story follows the fortunes of the Whittaker family. The brilliant Alma, a botanist, falls in love with a man who draws her into the realm of the spiritual as they are...
- Author:Klages, GregorySummary:
"How did Tom Thomson die in the summer of 1917? Was landscape painter Tom Thomson shot by poachers, or by a German-American draft dodger? Did a blow from a canoe paddle knock him unconscious and into the water? Was he fatally...
- Author:Sandford, JohnSummary:
Kidd's friend, Bobby the superhacker, has been murdered. When Kidd goes to Bobby's house to investigate, he finds his battered body, but not his jazzed-up laptop. Now Kidd is doubly disturbed. The murderer is still at large...
- Author:Ebershoff, DavidSummary:
Inspired by the true story of Danish painter Einar Wegener and his California-born wife, this tender portrait of a marriage asks: what do you do when someone you love wants to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked of a...
- Author:Ruurs, Margriet, Bateman, RobertSummary:
This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. Celebrated artist Robert Bateman is renowned internationally for bringing the natural world to life on the canvas. A naturalist and painter from his youth, Robert has for decades...
- Author:Burk, RachelleSummary:
In 1953, Esref Armagan was born completely blind to a poor family in Istanbul, Turkey. He received no formal education and spent his childhood days in his father's shop, where he developed the curiosity to create and draw. He...
- Author:Ruffo, Armand GarnetSummary:
Morrisseau was a controversial figure too, eliciting everything from resentment to outright condemnation. Living on booze, flat broke and exhausted, he often traded art for a drink to the frustration of his agents. Despite immense...
- Author:Robertson, CarmenSummary:
Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau examines the complex identities assigned to Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau. Was he an uneducated artist plagued by alcoholism and homelessness? Was Morrisseau a shaman artist who tapped a deep...
- Author:Auger, DaleSummary:
One of Canada's most evocative modern painters, Cree artist Dale Auger was a gifted interpreter of First Nations culture, using the cross-cultural medium of art to portray scenes from the everyday to the sacred and dissemble stereotypes...
- Author:Irving, JanSummary:
Hiding behind the safe mask of Obsidian, his online persona, Kain Mitchell woos Nick Anders, an untouched artist. Nick tells himself that Obsidian is merely his erotic muse, but when Kain drags him down into his dark world, echoing the...
- Author:Asensi, MatildeSummary:
Un formidable roman historique doublé d'une touchante leçon de vie. Nous sommes en 1923. Elvira de Poulain est une peintre espagnole qui vit en France. Elle apprend la mort, dans des circonstances étranges, de son mari, un homme d’...
- Author:Scoones, AnnySummary:
A vividly wrought memoir, Last Dance in Shediac is a collection of the author’s personal memories of her mother—celebrated Canadian artist Molly Lamb Bobak—and a tender meditation on life and death. Molly Lamb Bobak (1922–2014) was the...
- Author:Hézaran, VartanSummary:
Dans un nouveau style objectal qui rappelle la neutralité mystérieuse dans l'œuvre du peintre américain Edward Hopper, Vartan Hézaran crée une intimité où la psychologie est reportée sur l'étendue désertique des plaines pour laisser...
- Author:Montalembert, Hugues de.Summary:
The impressionistic memoir of an artist who was blinded in a sudden act of violence.
- Author:Oliveira, RobinSummary:
The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War to be an artist was going to be easy, but when, after a decade of work, her submission to the Paris Salon is rejected, her fierce determination wavers. Then she...