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Lela Wilson's biography is an engaging personal perspective on Wilson's career as a painter and muralist, and as an advocate for the arts in Canada. This biography also provides an insider's view of a critical, but somewhat neglected, era in the development of Canadian art.

Title York Wilson : his life and work, 1907-1984 / Lela Wilson
edited by Sandra Dyck.
Publisher Ottawa [Ontario] : Carleton University Press
Distributor Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library
Creation Date [1997]
Notes Includes index.
Co-published by Carleton University Art Gallery.
English
Content I Eighty Cents Between Us -- I1 Places of Our Own -- 111 Steady Development -- IV Gains in Toronto
Trips North and East -- V Return to the Arctic -- VI Introduction to Mexico -- VII Steady Progress -- VIII New York, Europe and the Canary Islands -- IX A Glimpse of Morocco and Our Return Home -- X The McGill and Salvation Army Murals
Meeting Rico Lebrun -- XI The Imperial Oil Mural -- XI1 Spain, the Canary Islands, Italy and Belgium -- XI11 At Home and in the Caribbean -- XIV The O'Keefe Centre Mural -- XV Our First Three Years in Paris -- XVI Our Final Year in Paris -- XVII Two Solo Shows, A Retrospective and Two Murals -- XVIII Around the World: From Hawaii to Japan -- XIX Around the World: From Sabah to Sri Lanka XX Around the World: From India to Iraq -- XXI Around the World: From Egypt to Cyprus -- XXII Around the World: Europe and Our Return Home -- XU11 The Geometric Paintings and an Exhibition in New York -- XXlV The Final Murals, Four Decades and a Second Retrospective -- XXV Potpourri -- XXVI The Final Years.
Extent 1 online resource (303 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©1997
National Library system number 997010716703705171
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