The oldest member and a vociferous defender of the Group of Seven, Canadian artists dedicated to creating art work that focused on Canadian subjects, James MacDonald became an important Canadian... Read full biography
The oldest member and a vociferous defender of the Group of Seven, Canadian artists dedicated to creating art work that focused on Canadian subjects, James MacDonald became an important Canadian landscape painter and was also a teacher, muralist, and poet. He spent much of his career earning money... Read full biography
The oldest member and a vociferous defender of the Group of Seven, Canadian artists dedicated to creating art work that focused on Canadian subjects, James MacDonald became an important Canadian landscape painter and was also a teacher, muralist, and poet. He spent much of his career earning money as a graphic artist for the Toronto design firm of Grip Ltd. He was born in Durham, England to Canadian parents, and at age 14, went to Hamilton, Ontario where he studied at the Ontario School of Art... Read full biography
The oldest member and a vociferous defender of the Group of Seven, Canadian artists dedicated to creating art work that focused on Canadian subjects, James MacDonald became an important Canadian landscape painter and was also a teacher, muralist, and poet. He spent much of his career earning money as a graphic artist for the Toronto design firm of Grip Ltd. He was born in Durham, England to Canadian parents, and at age 14, went to Hamilton, Ontario where he studied at the Ontario School of Art and Design and also at the Toronto Art Students League. Although he primarily worked for Grip Ltd., he spent the years 1904 to 1907 in London employed by Carlton Studios. In Canada, he painted landscapes near Torono as well as farther north in... Read full biography
The oldest member and a vociferous defender of the Group of Seven, Canadian artists dedicated to creating art work that focused on Canadian subjects, James MacDonald became an important Canadian landscape painter and was also a teacher, muralist, and poet. He spent much of his career earning money as a graphic artist for the Toronto design firm of Grip Ltd. He was born in Durham, England to Canadian parents, and at age 14, went to Hamilton, Ontario where he studied at the Ontario School of Art and Design and also at the Toronto Art Students League. Although he primarily worked for Grip Ltd., he spent the years 1904 to 1907 in London employed by Carlton Studios. In Canada, he painted landscapes near Torono as well as farther north in Georgian Bay. A major influence on his determination to create a nationalistic art was his association with painter Lawren Harris throu... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (44)
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Generations: The Sobey Family and Canadian Art (McMichael Canadian Art Collection & Gooseland Editions
2022
Milroy, Sarah
0 pages (color)
Who Killed Tom Thomson:
2018
Little, John
409 pages
AGO: Highlights from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario
2013
Editor, Art Gallery of Ontario
357 pages (color)
A Concise History of Canadian Painting, (Third Edition)
2012
Reid, Dennis
506 pages (color)
Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings
2007
Newlands, Anne
366 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
The Group of Seven in Western Canada (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Glenbow Museum
208 pages (color)
Artists of the Rockies: Inspiration of Lake O'Hara, Illustration 100 years of landscape painting by the Lake O'Hara area in the Canadian Rockies
2003
Gooch, Jane Lytton
152 pages (color)
The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson
2003
Silcox, David P
441 pages (color)
The Birth of the Modern: Post Impressionism in Canada, c. 1900-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Murray, Joan
160 pages (color)
A Hiker's Guide to Art of the Canadian Rockies
1996
Christensen, Lisa
134 pages (color)
The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Hill, Charles C
374 pages (color)
Visions of Light and Air: Canadian Impressionism (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Lowrey, Carol
152 pages (color)
Winter
1994
Berton, Pierre
239 pages (color)
Masterpieces of Canadian Art: From the National Gallery of Canada
1990
Burnett, David; Dr. Shirley L. Thomson (Foreward)
230 pages (color)
Canadian Impressionism
1990
Duval, Paul
166 pages (color)
The Art Gallery of Hamilton: Seventy-Five Years (1914-1989) (Art Gallery of Hamilton)
1989
Fox, Ross and Grace Inglis
122 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
Works from the McCuaig Collection in the Laurentian University Museum (Now Called Art Gallery of Sudbury)
1987
Krueger, Pamela
56 pages
Climbing the Cold White Peaks: A Survey of Artists in and from Hamilton, 1910-1950
1986
MacCuaig, Stuart
224 pages
One Man's Obsession
1986
McMichael, Robert
410 pages
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
Lawren S. Harris: Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes, 1906-1930
1978
Adamson, Jeremy
231 pages (color)
The Tangled Garden: The Art of J.E.H. MacDonald
1978
Duval, Paul
191 pages (color)
Modern Painting in Canada: Major Movements in Twentieth Century Canadian Art
1978
Fenton, Terry; Karen Wilken
119 pages (color)
From Desolation to Splendour Changing Perceptions-The British Columbia Landscape
1977
Tippett, Maria/Douglas Cole
159 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
Canadian Painting in the Thirties (National Gallery of Canada Exhibition Catalogue) (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Hill, Charles C
223 pages (color)
Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water An Exhibition of American & Canadian Art (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Frankenstein, Alfred
63 pages (color)
Canadian Landscape Painting 1670-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Hubbard, R H
198 pages (color)
A Concise History of Canadian History, 1973
1973
Reid, Dennis
319 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
The Group of Seven (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Reid, Dennis
0 pages
The McMichael Conservation Collection of Canadian Art
1967
Duval, Paul
96 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art
1967
Hubbard, R.H.; J.R. Ostiguy
254 pages (color)
Canadian Painting 1850-1950 National Gallery Travelling Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1967
National Gallery of Canada
32 pages (color)
Painting in Canada: A History (Second Edition)
1966
Harper, J Russell
443 pages
Great Canadian Painting: A Century of Art
1966
Kilbourn, Elizabeth; Frank Newfeld
128 pages (color)
Art and Man---The Modern World (Book Three of 3 Volumes)
1964
Brieger, P.H.; George Vickers, F.E. Winter
234 pages (color)
Catalog of Paintings National Gallery of Canada (Exhibition catalog)
1948
National Gallery Of Canada
271 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index