"Together with important First Nations material, the Thomson Canadian Collection is the largest of all private holdings of Canadian art. Ten essays by authorities on Northwest Coast art, Cornelius Krieghoff, James Wilson Morrice, Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven painters Frederick Varley, Lawren Harris and J. E. H. MacDonald, as well as David Milne, Paul-Emile Borduas and William Kurelek, explore in depth and breadth centuries of artistic ..."
"The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal, 1941-1960 accompanies the first exhibition in English Canada ever devoted exclusively to the Automatistes' works. An insightful essay by distinguished professor Ray Ellenwood sets the group's extraordinary accomplishments in a variety of disciplines in the context of the social and political events of the time. And a lively text by eminent historian and curator Roald Nasgaard chronicles the emergenc ..."
Concealing/Revealing Voices from the Canadian Foothills by RoaldNasgaard Paperback, 56 Pages, Published 1997 by Florida State University, Museum Of Fine Arts ISBN-13: 978-1-889282-03-9, ISBN: 1-889282-03-0
"In the early 1980's a number of Symbolist artists in northern Europe turned to the wilderness of their native landscapes - deep virgin forests, rugged coast lines, and high mountain peaks. These remote and often unexplored and uninhabited regions became subjects through which the artists probed personal feelings and spiritual states. In part these painters were inspired by Guaguin's rejection of European civilization for an imagined Sou ..."
Higher States Lawren Harris and His American Contemporaries by RoaldNasgaard, Gwendolyn Owens Hardcover, 204 Pages, Published 2017 by Goose Lane Editions ISBN-13: 978-0-86492-965-5, ISBN: 0-86492-965-X
"Lawren S. Harris is best known for his iconic landscape paintings that declare a sense of cool Canadian resilience. Yet, in the 1920s, an audacious and more colourful interior world began to emerge in his work, and by 1934, the patriotic landscape painter had taken a seemingly unexpected turn toward a transnational career in abstract painting. The social, intellectual, and aesthetic milieu of American transcendentalism shaped a movement ..."
Vers de nouveaux sommets Lawren Harris et ses contemporains américains (French Edition) by RoaldNasgaard, Gwendolyn Owens Hardcover, 204 Pages, Published 2017 by Goose Lane Editions ISBN-13: 978-0-86492-977-8, ISBN: 0-86492-977-3
"Lawren S. Harris doit sa renommée à ses paysages emblématiques pénétrés d'un force tranquille résolument canadienne. Dans les années 1920, un monde intérieur audacieux et coloré commence à se manifester dans son œuvre, et en 1934, contre toute attente, il entreprend une carrière de peintre abstrait outre-frontière. Le milieu social, intellectuel et esthétique du transcendantalisme américain sert de modèle à un mouvement d’art abstrait e ..."
"This major new artist s monograph presents the works of legendary Canadian painter, sculptor and printmaker, Gordon Smith. Smith has been making work for decades and is most famed for his painted works of figurative abstraction, though he has an accomplished practice in hard edged abstraction as well as in traditional figurative painting. This book is the first to present all of Gordon s different styles along with both contemporary and ..."
"For six decades, since his first solo exhibition in 1950, the work of the Saskatchewan painter William Perehudoff has embodied the highest standards of aesthetic seriousness and excellence. His impressive reputation extends widely and he is celebrated not only in his native Prairie region, but also across Canada, and in the United States and Great Britain. This lavishly illustrated account of Perehudoff's career and the most comprehensi ..."
"Painter, educator and writer. As an artist, John Kissick has built a reputation with tumultuous abstract paintings marked by an encyclopedic array of painted motifs and textures drawn from a global pool of visual representation. This first career monograph traces the trajectory of Kissick's work from its origins in the reconfigurations of abstract expressionism, through to its current immersion in hybrid painting and popular culture. Th ..."
"The Iskowitz Prize has been awarded to exceptional Canadian artists for over twenty years. This profusely illustrated publication is comprised of original essays on each recipient by a wide range of curators, gallery directors and critics. Among the artists discussed are General Idea, Gathie Falk, Arnaud Maggs, Betty Goodwin, Stan Douglas, Geoffrey James, Rodney Graham, and Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. Taken as a whole, the wr ..."
"In the tradition of the distinguished Douglas & McIntyre art program, this lavishly illustrated and superbly printed book is a rich, readable history of abstract painting in Canada.The story begins in the 1920s with the sometimes eccentric but remarkable work, rooted in symbolism and theosophy, of pioneers such as Kathleen Munn, Bertram Brooker and Lawren Harris. Two decades later the Automatistes-Canada's first truly independent avant- ..."
Pleasures of Sight and States of Being(1st Edition) Radical Abstract Painting Since 1990 by RoaldNasgaard Paperback, 68 Pages, Published 2001 by Florida State University Museum Of Fine Arts ISBN-13: 978-1-889282-10-7, ISBN: 1-889282-10-3
"The illustrations, small as required by the series format, are good. Other larger, more extensive books exist on the Gallery's collections, but this is excellent value. Recommended for larger collections."
Free worlds Metaphors and realities in contemporary Hungarian art by RoaldNasgaard, David G. Carter, J. Bruyn Paperback, 147 Pages, Published 1991 by Art Gallery Of Ontario ISBN-13: 978-1-895235-00-5, ISBN: 1-895235-00-6
"In this book: GERHARD RICHTER PAINTINGS by Michael Danoff, the 77 major works reproduced represent Richter's style changes through the years, from his early works based on snapshots and newspaper photographs to later works, including his vivid and colorful abstract paintings. The book also includes an interview with Richter. Illustrated. Edited by Terry A. Neff. Published by Thames and Hudson, 1988. 160 pages."
The mystic north Symbolist landscape painting in northern Europe and North America, 1890-1940 by RoaldNasgaard, Cincinnati Art Museum Hardcover, 253 Pages, Published 1984 by University Of Toronto Press In Association With The Art Gallery Of Ontario ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-2530-2, ISBN: 0-8020-2530-7
"PREFACE THE MYSTIC NORTH The Northern Symbolist Landscape From
Naturalism to ... Chief Curator, of Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo; Per Bjurstrom, Director,
Nils-Goran Hokby, and other staff at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; Arne Eggum,
Curator, Munch-museet, Oslo; Hanne Finsen, Director, Ordrupgaard,
Copenhagen; Bjom Fredlund, Director, Goteborgs Konstmuseum, Gote- borg,
Sweden; Aivi Gallen-Kallela, Helsinki; Barbara Haskell, Curator, The Whi ..."