Founder of a group called Painters Eleven in Canada, William Ronald was born in Stratford and raised in Fergus and Brampton. He also did a series of portraits in Abstract Expressionist style of Prime... Read full biography
Founder of a group called Painters Eleven in Canada, William Ronald was born in Stratford and raised in Fergus and Brampton. He also did a series of portraits in Abstract Expressionist style of Prime Ministers including Pierre Trudeau. Upon graduation from the Ontario College of Art, where he was a... Read full biography
Founder of a group called Painters Eleven in Canada, William Ronald was born in Stratford and raised in Fergus and Brampton. He also did a series of portraits in Abstract Expressionist style of Prime Ministers including Pierre Trudeau. Upon graduation from the Ontario College of Art, where he was a hockey player,William Ronald went directly to New York to study for six months with Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann, having won a $1,000.00 scholarship from the Canadian Amateur Hockey... Read full biography
Founder of a group called Painters Eleven in Canada, William Ronald was born in Stratford and raised in Fergus and Brampton. He also did a series of portraits in Abstract Expressionist style of Prime Ministers including Pierre Trudeau. Upon graduation from the Ontario College of Art, where he was a hockey player,William Ronald went directly to New York to study for six months with Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann, having won a $1,000.00 scholarship from the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. Living in the 'big city' was a heady experience for Ronald, whose residence was on 2nd Avenue in a noisy, Jewish neighborhood "Of street vendors, delicatessens and clothing stores". He took advantage of the cultural offerings and, leaving for... Read full biography
Founder of a group called Painters Eleven in Canada, William Ronald was born in Stratford and raised in Fergus and Brampton. He also did a series of portraits in Abstract Expressionist style of Prime Ministers including Pierre Trudeau. Upon graduation from the Ontario College of Art, where he was a hockey player,William Ronald went directly to New York to study for six months with Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann, having won a $1,000.00 scholarship from the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. Living in the 'big city' was a heady experience for Ronald, whose residence was on 2nd Avenue in a noisy, Jewish neighborhood "Of street vendors, delicatessens and clothing stores". He took advantage of the cultural offerings and, leaving for Canada, he determined to return to New York. In Ontario, he became a display artist for a home furnishi... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (38)
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A Concise History of Canadian Painting, (Third Edition)
2012
Reid, Dennis
506 pages (color)
Color Creates Light: Studies With Hans Hoffman
2011
Dickey, Tina
424 pages (color)
Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art
2010
Nowell, Iris
384 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
Isaacs Seen: 50 Years on the Art Front, a Gallery Scrapbook
2005
Wigmore, Donnalu and John Parry
168 pages (color)
1953
2003
Holubizky, Ihor and Robert McKaskell
94 pages (color)
The Outer Limits: Works from the permanent collection of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery
2001
Johnston, Melanie
43 pages
Clement Greenburg: A Critic's Collection Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Wilkin, Karen and Bruce Guenther
0 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Masterpieces of Canadian Art: From the National Gallery of Canada
1990
Burnett, David; Dr. Shirley L. Thomson (Foreward)
230 pages (color)
Cineplex Odeon The First Ten Years: A Celebration of Contemporary Canadian Art
1989
Burnett, David
97 pages (color)
Agnes Etherington Art Centre: Exhibitions in Review, 1987-1988 (Agnes Etherinton Art Centre)
1988
Bell, Michael et al
122 pages
A Concise History of Canadian Painting (Second Edition)
1988
Reid, Dennis
418 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
20th Century Canadian Drawings
1979
Morris, Jerrold
107 pages
Modern Painting in Canada: Major Movements in Twentieth Century Canadian Art
1978
Fenton, Terry; Karen Wilken
119 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Through Canadian Eyes: Trends and Influences in Canadian Art, 1815-1965 (Glenbow Museum)
1976
Williamson, Moncrieff
88 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art
1973
Carnegie Institute
196 pages (color)
A Concise History of Canadian History, 1973
1973
Reid, Dennis
319 pages (color)
Contemporary Canadian Painting
1972
Withrow, William
224 pages (color)
Canadian Art Today
1970
Townsend, William
114 pages (color)
A History of Peel County: To Mark Its Centenary as a Separate County, 1867-1967
1967
Charters, C.V. (Editor)
287 pages (color)
Sources for Tomorrow: 50 American Paintings 1946-1966 James Michener Collection of Allentown Art Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1967
Hirsch, Richard
48 pages
Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art
1967
Hubbard, R.H.; J.R. Ostiguy
254 pages (color)
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)
Fifteen Canadian Artists (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
1963
Turner, Evan H.; William J. Withrow
48 pages (color)
American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists (Exhibition catalog)
1961
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
1,961 pages
The National Gallery of Canada: Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Volume III
1960
Hubbard, R.H.
463 pages
60 American Painters 1960 Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties (Exhibition catalog)