A Concise History of Canadian Painting, (Third Edition)
2012Reid, Dennis
506 pages (color)
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1927 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada - 1998 Matane, Quebec, Canada. Known for: Stylized, folk art landscape, still life, portrait, village scene and genre painting.
Claude Picher ARCA (1927 - 1998). "Claude Picher is the enfant terrible of Quebec art." (1). A prominent Canadian painter and museum professional, Claude Picher was born in Quebec City, Quebec, and... Read full biography
Claude Picher ARCA (1927 - 1998). "Claude Picher is the enfant terrible of Quebec art." (1). A prominent Canadian painter and museum professional, Claude Picher was born in Quebec City, Quebec, and died in Matane, Quebec on the Gaspe Peninsula. Picher's style is perhaps one of the most easily... Read full biography
Claude Picher ARCA (1927 - 1998). "Claude Picher is the enfant terrible of Quebec art." (1). A prominent Canadian painter and museum professional, Claude Picher was born in Quebec City, Quebec, and died in Matane, Quebec on the Gaspe Peninsula. Picher's style is perhaps one of the most easily recognizable in Canadian art. His paintings are in the permanent collections of several Canadian museums including the National Gallery of Canada. Before becoming a full-time painter he was a museum... Read full biography
Claude Picher ARCA (1927 - 1998). "Claude Picher is the enfant terrible of Quebec art." (1). A prominent Canadian painter and museum professional, Claude Picher was born in Quebec City, Quebec, and died in Matane, Quebec on the Gaspe Peninsula. Picher's style is perhaps one of the most easily recognizable in Canadian art. His paintings are in the permanent collections of several Canadian museums including the National Gallery of Canada. Before becoming a full-time painter he was a museum administrator and curator known for his severe criticism of contemporary Canadian art. His controversial and often strident views are recalled and discussed at some length in his entertaining diatribe "Picher: The colour of the Gaspe coast". In it, using... Read full biography
Claude Picher ARCA (1927 - 1998). "Claude Picher is the enfant terrible of Quebec art." (1). A prominent Canadian painter and museum professional, Claude Picher was born in Quebec City, Quebec, and died in Matane, Quebec on the Gaspe Peninsula. Picher's style is perhaps one of the most easily recognizable in Canadian art. His paintings are in the permanent collections of several Canadian museums including the National Gallery of Canada. Before becoming a full-time painter he was a museum administrator and curator known for his severe criticism of contemporary Canadian art. His controversial and often strident views are recalled and discussed at some length in his entertaining diatribe "Picher: The colour of the Gaspe coast". In it, using personal anecdote, humor, sarcasm, and arcane historical references, he attacks trends in Canadian art, the globalization of art... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (30)
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The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century (Dedicated to the memory of John Fox, Painter and Teacher)
2010Foss, Brian; Anne Whitelaw and Sandra Paikowsky480 pages (color)Benezit Dictionary of Artists, English Version and Online (Fourteen Volumes)
2006Benezit, E0 pagesBiographical Index of Artists in Canada
2003McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing250 pagesMagazin'art: Biennial Guide to Canadian Artists in Galleries, 2002-2003
2002Latulippe, Jacques (Editor)707 pages (color)The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction
2001Westbridge, Anthony R. and Diana L. Bodnar622 pagesE. Benezit Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, 14 Volumes
1999Benezit, E.0 pagesEgregore: A History of the Montreal Automatist Movement
1998Ellenwood, Ray357 pages (color)Achieving the Modern: Canadian Abstract Painting and Design in the 1950s (Winnipeg Art Gallery)
1993McKaskell, Robert, et al173 pages (color)Picher: The Colour of the Gaspe Coast
1992Picher, Claude103 pages (color)Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981
1991Lerner, Loren R; Mary F. Williamson1,557 pages (color)Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal)
1988McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing417 pagesDocuments in Canadian Art
1987Fetherling, Douglas (Editor)327 pagesWho's Who in American Art, Fifteenth Edition, 1982
1982R.R. Bowker Co. (Editors)1,204 pagesPicher
1981Dumas, Paul and Michel Champagne100 pages (color)Royal Canadian Academy of Arts: Exhibitions and Members, 1880-1979
1981McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing448 pagesFirestone Art Collection
1978Evans, John167 pages (color)Lemieux
1978Robert, Guy and John David Allan (Translator)303 pages (color)Painting in Canada: A History (1977)
1977Harper, J. Russell463 pages (color)A Dictionary of Canadian Artists Volume 6, Perrin-Rakine
1975MacDonald, Colin S.324 pagesFour Decades: The Canadian Group of Painters and their Contemporaries, 1930-1970
1972Duval, Paul192 pages (color)Creative Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth Century Creative and Performing Arts (Two Volumes)
1972Rodney, Helen M.616 pagesArt Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection
1970Bradfield, Helen Pepall603 pagesAgnes Etherington Art Centre Queen's University at Kingston
1968Smith, Frances K.195 pagesThree Hundred Years of Canadian Art
1967Hubbard, R.H.; J.R. Ostiguy254 pages (color)Modern Painting in French Canada
1967Viau, Guy93 pagesFifth Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting 1963
1963Harper, J. Russell and Roger Duhamel32 pages (color)The National Gallery of Canada: Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Volume III
1960Hubbard, R.H.463 pagesSecond Biennial of Canadian Art, 1957 (National Gallery of Canada)
1957Buchanan, Donald28 pages35 Painters of Today
1957Leduc, Fernand47 pages