Bertram Richard Brooker (AKA: Bertram Brooker, AKA: Richard Surrey, AKA: Huxley Herne) was a painter, graphic artist, commercial artist, illustrator, writer, novelist, playwright, advertising... Read full biography
Bertram Richard Brooker (AKA: Bertram Brooker, AKA: Richard Surrey, AKA: Huxley Herne) was a painter, graphic artist, commercial artist, illustrator, writer, novelist, playwright, advertising executive and a pioneer of Canadian abstraction. He was born in Croydon, Surrey, England (now a part of... Read full biography
Bertram Richard Brooker (AKA: Bertram Brooker, AKA: Richard Surrey, AKA: Huxley Herne) was a painter, graphic artist, commercial artist, illustrator, writer, novelist, playwright, advertising executive and a pioneer of Canadian abstraction. He was born in Croydon, Surrey, England (now a part of London). His family emigrated to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba (50 miles west of Winnipeg) in 1905. In 1921, he moved to Toronto, Ontario where he lived the rest of his life and died. His mediums were... Read full biography
Bertram Richard Brooker (AKA: Bertram Brooker, AKA: Richard Surrey, AKA: Huxley Herne) was a painter, graphic artist, commercial artist, illustrator, writer, novelist, playwright, advertising executive and a pioneer of Canadian abstraction. He was born in Croydon, Surrey, England (now a part of London). His family emigrated to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba (50 miles west of Winnipeg) in 1905. In 1921, he moved to Toronto, Ontario where he lived the rest of his life and died. His mediums were oil, watercolour, tempera*, pencil, and pen and ink. His most famous early works (1925 - 1929) were complex hard-edge geometric abstractions inspired by music and focusing on colour, shape, perspective and rhythm. His styles were Vortecism*, Futurism*,... Read full biography
Bertram Richard Brooker (AKA: Bertram Brooker, AKA: Richard Surrey, AKA: Huxley Herne) was a painter, graphic artist, commercial artist, illustrator, writer, novelist, playwright, advertising executive and a pioneer of Canadian abstraction. He was born in Croydon, Surrey, England (now a part of London). His family emigrated to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba (50 miles west of Winnipeg) in 1905. In 1921, he moved to Toronto, Ontario where he lived the rest of his life and died. His mediums were oil, watercolour, tempera*, pencil, and pen and ink. His most famous early works (1925 - 1929) were complex hard-edge geometric abstractions inspired by music and focusing on colour, shape, perspective and rhythm. His styles were Vortecism*, Futurism*, Surrealism* and Art Deco*. After 1930 his subject content expanded to include landscap... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (31)
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The Logic of Nature, The Romance of Space: Elements of Canadian Modernist Painting (Art Gallery of Ontario)
2010
Getty, Cassandra et al
177 pages (color)
The Wrong World: Selected Stories and Essays of Bertram Brooker
2009
Betts, Gregory
256 pages (color)
Abstract Painting in Canada (Exhibition catalog)
2008
Nasgaard, Roald
432 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Pegi By Herself: The Life of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Canadian Artist
2005
Brandon, Laura
241 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction
2001
Westbridge, Anthony R. and Diana L. Bodnar
622 pages
A Century of Canadian Drawing: Selected from the Permanent Collection of the Dalhousei Art Gallery
1999
Garvey, Susan Gibson
50 pages
The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Hill, Charles C
374 pages (color)
Origins of Abstraction in Canada: Modernist Pioneers (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Murray, Joan
59 pages (color)
Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981
1991
Lerner, Loren R; Mary F. Williamson
1,557 pages (color)
Masterpieces of Canadian Art: From the National Gallery of Canada
1990
Burnett, David; Dr. Shirley L. Thomson (Foreward)
230 pages (color)
Industrial Images (Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario) (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Donegan, Rosemary
143 pages
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal)
1988
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing
417 pages
A Concise History of Canadian Painting (Second Edition)
1988
Reid, Dennis
418 pages (color)
Daffodils in Winter: The Life and Letters of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, 1904-1949
1984
Murray, Joan
350 pages
Sounds Assembling: The Poetry of Bertram Brooker
1980
Sproxton, Birk (Editor)
71 pages (color)
Canadian Painting in the Thirties (National Gallery of Canada Exhibition Catalogue) (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Hill, Charles C
223 pages (color)
A Dictionary of Canadian Artists (8 Volumes)
1974
MacDonald, Colin, S.
3,667 pages
Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art
1973
Onn, Gerald (Translator)
0 pages
A Concise History of Canadian History, 1973
1973
Reid, Dennis
319 pages (color)
The Nude in Canadian Painting
1972
Morris, Jerrold
89 pages (color)
Painting in Canada: A History (Second Edition)
1966
Harper, J Russell
443 pages
The Robber
1949
Brooker, Bertram
0 pages (color)
Think of the Earth
1936
Brooker, Bertram
0 pages (color)
Tangled Miracle
1936
Herne, Huxley (Pseudonym for Bertram Brooker)
0 pages (color)
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by the 'Canadian Group of Painters'
1936
Lismer, Arthur
12 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index