Art, Individual Artists
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Of Wonder & Delight
A Contemporary Fox Tale by Don Harrison Short
The cheeky, curious fox finds boredom in the day-to-day predictability of the forest he knows as home. Despite the admiration of other woodland creatures, he decides to venture far, only to be enamored by bigger animals than himself. The bears and ...
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Canada Western Landscapes
Through The Years by Carol Elizabeth Cowan
Inspired by a first publishing of Carol Cowan’s paintings, which generated a great deal of interest, this second edition Canada Western Landscapes is a wonderful collection of her work in water colour, multi-media oils, acrylics. With an artistic ...
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Gallan
Conversations inspired by Gurmukhi Alphabets by Ameet Gill
This is my artistic approach to creating a Punjabi cultural dialogue with 83 pages of photographed and graphically reproduced mixed media illustrations, artworks and digital works, combined with a hand written and a typed collection of "Gallan" ...
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The Art of Carol Janeway
A Tile & Ceramics Career with Georg Jensen Inc. and Ossip Zadkine in 1940s Manhattan by Victoria Jenssen
The Art of Carol Janeway portrays the exotic life and artistic career of a woman whose commercial success as a tile decorator and ceramist in New York in the 1940s and later retirement due to lead poisoning offer a fascinating study. Victoria ...
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Prudence Heward
Canadian Modernist Painter by Evelyn Walters
At a time of disdain for modern art and widespread discrimination against women artists, Prudence Heward challenged the conventional in portraits that capture subtleties of emotion and often reflect her own struggles against illness and family ...
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Busker and the Trees
Eight Decades of Struggle, Adaptation and Happiness by Adel Bishai
Like a busker juggling, we go through life balancing values as balls in the air...If one falls, the good busker picks it quickly up, resumes the performance and the audience applauds the skill in maintaining balance and harmony. Busker and the Trees ...
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Towards Light
Landscape Paintings of British Columbia by Lil Chrzan
TOWARDS LIGHT richly redefines the way we experience the scenic beauty of British Columbia. With each magical painting, artist Lil Chrzan informs the viewer that a landscape is not just about clouds and trees but rather the subtle quality of light ...
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Saskatchewan Sentinels A to Z
The Prairie Art of Herman J. Friesen by Herman Friesen and June Friesen
The images in this book have been organized in alphabetical order. As you journey through the alphabet, each image depicts a Saskatchewan town with the stately elevators that were so essential to the settlement and growth of the province. You will ...
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The Land Our Fathers Saw
A Pictorial History By E.F. Hagell by Wilma Wood
The Land Our Fathers Saw reveals the Hagell Heritage Collection held by the Galt Museum and Archives in the City of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. In 1960, upon the request of the Lethbridge Historical Society, the City purchased the collection from ...
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Light as it Falls
Passport to the Arts by Irene Naested
Finding balance in one’s life isn’t always straightforward: it involves light and shadow, and blacks, whites, and greys. Artist and writer Dr. Irene Naested explores the philosophy, psychology, and beauty of these themes in Light as it Falls. This ...
