Known for his landscape painting, British Columbia artist Toni Onley was born in 1928 on the Isle of Man and was educated in England and Mexico. He made his first trip to the Arctic in 1974 and later... Read full biography
Known for his landscape painting, British Columbia artist Toni Onley was born in 1928 on the Isle of Man and was educated in England and Mexico. He made his first trip to the Arctic in 1974 and later published Onley's Arctic: Diaries and Paintings of the High Arctic. His work has been the subject... Read full biography
Known for his landscape painting, British Columbia artist Toni Onley was born in 1928 on the Isle of Man and was educated in England and Mexico. He made his first trip to the Arctic in 1974 and later published Onley's Arctic: Diaries and Paintings of the High Arctic. His work has been the subject of a critical study by Roger Boulet entitled Toni Onley, A Silent Thunder. A recipient of the Order of Canada, Onley published Tony Onley's British Columbia: A Tribute (Raincoast, 1999) and an... Read full biography
Known for his landscape painting, British Columbia artist Toni Onley was born in 1928 on the Isle of Man and was educated in England and Mexico. He made his first trip to the Arctic in 1974 and later published Onley's Arctic: Diaries and Paintings of the High Arctic. His work has been the subject of a critical study by Roger Boulet entitled Toni Onley, A Silent Thunder. A recipient of the Order of Canada, Onley published Tony Onley's British Columbia: A Tribute (Raincoast, 1999) and an autobiography, Flying Colours: The Toni Onley Story (Harbour Publishing, 2003), as told to Gregory Strong, that recounts his victory as a 'Rolls-Royce rebel' who fought against Revenue Canada on a personal taxation issue, threatening to burn his paintings.... Read full biography
Known for his landscape painting, British Columbia artist Toni Onley was born in 1928 on the Isle of Man and was educated in England and Mexico. He made his first trip to the Arctic in 1974 and later published Onley's Arctic: Diaries and Paintings of the High Arctic. His work has been the subject of a critical study by Roger Boulet entitled Toni Onley, A Silent Thunder. A recipient of the Order of Canada, Onley published Tony Onley's British Columbia: A Tribute (Raincoast, 1999) and an autobiography, Flying Colours: The Toni Onley Story (Harbour Publishing, 2003), as told to Gregory Strong, that recounts his victory as a 'Rolls-Royce rebel' who fought against Revenue Canada on a personal taxation issue, threatening to burn his paintings. Onley died on February 29, 2004 in a single-plane accident when he crashed his pl... Read full biography
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About Toni Onley: Books
Books & Publications (34)
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Shore, Forest and Beyond: Art from the Audain Collection (Vancouver Art Gallery)
2012
Thom, Ian M.
160 pages (color)
Convergence/Divergence: Landscape and Identity on the West Coast (Exhibition catalog)
2011
Riedel, Caroline
28 pages (color)
Paint: A Psychedelic Primer (Vancouver Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Szewczyk, Monika
71 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
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
A Modern Life - Art and Design in British Columbia, 1945-1960 (Vancouver Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Thom, Ian and Alan Elder, editors
176 pages (color)
Flying Colours: The Toni Onley Story
2002
Onley, Toni; Gregory Strong
336 pages (color)
Art BC: Masterworks from British Columbia
2000
Thom, Ian
232 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Toni Onley's British Columbia, A Tribute
1999
Onley, Toni
0 pages (color)
Home Base: Notes to an Installation (Kamloops Art Gallery)
1998
Hunter, Andrew
36 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal)
1988
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing
417 pages
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Vancouver: Art and Artists, 1931-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Rombout, Luke
440 pages (color)
Printmaking in British Columbia, 1889-1983 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
1983
Tuele, Nicholas, Leslie Dawn and Greg Bellerby
64 pages (color)
Canadian Art in Britain: Contemporary Works from Collections in Britain
1982
Shepherd, Michael
56 pages (color)
The Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers in Retrospect (Art Gallery of Hamiltonm Ontario)
1981
Oko, Andrew J. and Rosemary Donegan
96 pages
Modern Painting in Canada: Major Movements in Twentieth Century Canadian Art
1978
Fenton, Terry; Karen Wilken
119 pages (color)
Contemporary Works on Paper by B.C. Artists (Traveling Exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Graham, Colin
36 pages (color)
From Desolation to Splendour Changing Perceptions-The British Columbia Landscape
1977
Tippett, Maria/Douglas Cole
159 pages (color)
Western Untitled (Glenbow-Alberta Institute)
1976
Heath, Terrence
76 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
B.C. Artists' Tribute to Colin Graham (Art Gallery of Greater Victoria)
1974
Harvey, Donald
16 pages
Mystic Circle: Burnaby Art Gallery
1973
Lhalungpa, Lobsang Phuntshok and George Woodcock
156 pages (color)
Canadian Art Today
1970
Townsend, William
114 pages (color)
The Canada Council Collection (National Gallery of Canada)
1969
Thompson, David
64 pages (color)
Sixth Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting, 1965 (National Gallery of Canada) (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Townsend, William
47 pages (color)
Fifteen Canadian Artists (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
1963
Turner, Evan H.; William J. Withrow
48 pages (color)
Northwest Art Today Adventures in Art (Exhibition catalog)
1962
Rogers, Millard
106 pages
The Fourth Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Art, 1961 (National Gallery of Canada)
1961
James, Philip et al
28 pages
Toni Onley, A Silent Thunder
0
Boulet, Roger
0 pages (color)
Onley's Arctic: Diaries and Paintings of the High Arctic