John Wentworth Russell (1879 – 1959). “… controversy erupted over the exhibition in 1927 of an academic nude painting by John Wentworth Russell at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Toronto.... Read full biography
John Wentworth Russell (1879 – 1959). “… controversy erupted over the exhibition in 1927 of an academic nude painting by John Wentworth Russell at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Toronto. During its ten day run, the CNE Art Gallery broke all previous attendance records as 158,888 people... Read full biography
John Wentworth Russell (1879 – 1959). “… controversy erupted over the exhibition in 1927 of an academic nude painting by John Wentworth Russell at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Toronto. During its ten day run, the CNE Art Gallery broke all previous attendance records as 158,888 people filed through the gallery…” (1). A prominent Canadian painter, draftsman, and educator, John Wentworth Russell was born in Binbrook, Ontario (near Hamilton); lived in Paris, France for over 20 years... Read full biography
John Wentworth Russell (1879 – 1959). “… controversy erupted over the exhibition in 1927 of an academic nude painting by John Wentworth Russell at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Toronto. During its ten day run, the CNE Art Gallery broke all previous attendance records as 158,888 people filed through the gallery…” (1). A prominent Canadian painter, draftsman, and educator, John Wentworth Russell was born in Binbrook, Ontario (near Hamilton); lived in Paris, France for over 20 years (c. 1904 – 1927); and, died in Toronto, Ontario where he had lived since 1927. While living in Paris he exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artistes Francais*. In Canada his works were exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts*, and the... Read full biography
John Wentworth Russell (1879 – 1959). “… controversy erupted over the exhibition in 1927 of an academic nude painting by John Wentworth Russell at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Toronto. During its ten day run, the CNE Art Gallery broke all previous attendance records as 158,888 people filed through the gallery…” (1). A prominent Canadian painter, draftsman, and educator, John Wentworth Russell was born in Binbrook, Ontario (near Hamilton); lived in Paris, France for over 20 years (c. 1904 – 1927); and, died in Toronto, Ontario where he had lived since 1927. While living in Paris he exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artistes Francais*. In Canada his works were exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts*, and the Ontario Society of Artists*; and, in 1927, his nude painting entitled A Modern Fantasy was famously credited with breaking all atten... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (41)
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Censoning Art: Silencing the Artwork
2018
Coulter, Riann and Roison Kennedy
213 pages (color)
The Modern Girl: Feminine Modernities, the Boday and Commodities in the 1920s
2015
Nicholas, Jane
299 pages (color)
The Uses of Excess in Visual and Material Culture, 1600-2010
2014
Skelly, Julia
304 pages (color)
Old Enough to Fight-Canada's Boy Soldiers in tne First World War
2013
Black, Dan and John Boileau
464 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
Biographical Index of Artists in Canada
2003
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing
250 pages
Canadian Art and Architecture: An Annotated Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations
2003
Peters, Diane E.
651 pages
The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction
2001
Westbridge, Anthony R. and Diana L. Bodnar
622 pages
Painting in Canada: A History
2000
Harper, J. Russell
463 pages (color)
E. Benezit Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, 14 Volumes
1999
Benezit, E.
0 pages
A to Z of Canadian Art: Artists and Art Terms
1997
McKendry, Blake
242 pages (color)
A Checklist of Painters, circa 1200-1994 Represented in the Witt Library (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
1995
Editor, Witt Library
557 pages
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)
Canadian Impressionism
1990
Duval, Paul
166 pages (color)
A Dictionary of Canadian Artists ,Volume 7, Rakos to Sadowski
1990
MacDonald, Colin S.
507 pages
Climbing the Cold White Peaks: A Survey of Artists in and from Hamilton, 1910-1950
1986
MacCuaig, Stuart
224 pages
Painting in Canada: A History
1985
Harper, J. Russell
463 pages (color)
The Ontario Collection (Ontario Heritage Foundation)
1984
Bayer, Fern
388 pages (color)
Canadian Art Collection: The University of Western Ontario: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture from the Collection of the University of Western Ontario
1983
Haldane, Alexandra
234 pages (color)
Famous Canadian Artists
1983
Miner, Muriel Miller and Gail H. Corbett
128 pages
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts: Exhibitions and Members, 1880-1979
1981
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing
448 pages
Painting in Canada: A History (1977)
1977
Harper, J. Russell
463 pages (color)
The Nude in Canadian Painting
1972
Morris, Jerrold
89 pages (color)
Creative Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth Century Creative and Performing Arts (Two Volumes)
1972
Rodney, Helen M.
616 pages
Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection
1970
Bradfield, Helen Pepall
603 pages
Painting in Canada: A History (Second Edition)
1966
Harper, J Russell
443 pages
The National Gallery of Canada: Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Volume III
1960
Hubbard, R.H.
463 pages
A Painter's Country: The Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson
1958
Jackson, A.Y.
182 pages (color)
Catalog of Paintings National Gallery of Canada (Exhibition catalog)
1948
National Gallery Of Canada
271 pages
The National Gallery of Canada: Catalogue of Paintings
1948
National Guard of Canada
272 pages
Canadian Art-Its Origin and Development (Paperback) 1967
1943
Colgate, William
278 pages
Canadian Art, 1820-1940
1943
Colgate, William
278 pages
A Guide to Canadian Painters (A Thesis)
1940
Hughes, Margaret E.
32 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
Prominent Men of Canada, 1931-32
1932
Hamilton, Ross (Editor)
640 pages
Canadian Landscape Painters
1932
Robson, A. H.
227 pages (color)
The National Gallery of Canada Catalogue
1931
Editor, National Gallery of Canada
218 pages
The Fine Arts in Canada
1925
MacTavish, Newton
181 pages (color)
Canada and its Provinces: A History of the Canadian People and Their Institutions by One Hundred Associates Volume 12 of 23
1914
Shortt, Adam; Arthur G. Doughty
675 pages
Canadian Men and Women of the Time: A Handbook of Canadian Biography of Living Characters