Yvonne Mckague Housser was a painter and educator who was born in Toronto and lived there her whole life. Her mediums were oil, pastel, graphite, ink, watercolor, tempera and mixed mediums. Her... Read full biography
Yvonne Mckague Housser was a painter and educator who was born in Toronto and lived there her whole life. Her mediums were oil, pastel, graphite, ink, watercolor, tempera and mixed mediums. Her subjects were landscapes, figures, portraits and abstracts. Her style was Canadian impressionism (much... Read full biography
Yvonne Mckague Housser was a painter and educator who was born in Toronto and lived there her whole life. Her mediums were oil, pastel, graphite, ink, watercolor, tempera and mixed mediums. Her subjects were landscapes, figures, portraits and abstracts. Her style was Canadian impressionism (much influenced by the Group of Seven*), representational, semi abstract and abstract expressionism. She studied at the Ontario College of Art (OCA) from 1915 to 1918 under William Cruikshank, J. W. Beatty... Read full biography
Yvonne Mckague Housser was a painter and educator who was born in Toronto and lived there her whole life. Her mediums were oil, pastel, graphite, ink, watercolor, tempera and mixed mediums. Her subjects were landscapes, figures, portraits and abstracts. Her style was Canadian impressionism (much influenced by the Group of Seven*), representational, semi abstract and abstract expressionism. She studied at the Ontario College of Art (OCA) from 1915 to 1918 under William Cruikshank, J. W. Beatty and Robert Holmes. She also studied in Paris, under Lucien Simon at the Academie Grande Chaumière*, at the Académie Colarossi*, and under Maurice Denis at the Académie Ranson*; at the University of Vienna, under Franz Cižek; in Taos, New Mexico, under... Read full biography
Yvonne Mckague Housser was a painter and educator who was born in Toronto and lived there her whole life. Her mediums were oil, pastel, graphite, ink, watercolor, tempera and mixed mediums. Her subjects were landscapes, figures, portraits and abstracts. Her style was Canadian impressionism (much influenced by the Group of Seven*), representational, semi abstract and abstract expressionism. She studied at the Ontario College of Art (OCA) from 1915 to 1918 under William Cruikshank, J. W. Beatty and Robert Holmes. She also studied in Paris, under Lucien Simon at the Academie Grande Chaumière*, at the Académie Colarossi*, and under Maurice Denis at the Académie Ranson*; at the University of Vienna, under Franz Cižek; in Taos, New Mexico, under Emil Bisttram; and in Provincetown, Massachusetts, with Hans Hofmann. She taught at the Ontario College o... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (28)
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Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra Del Fuego to the Arctict
2015
Edited by Brownlee, Peter; Valeria Piccoll and Georjiana Uhlyark
320 pages (color)
AGO: Highlights from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario
2013
Editor, Art Gallery of Ontario
357 pages (color)
Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women Artists
2008
Prakash, A.K.
409 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
1953
2003
Holubizky, Ihor and Robert McKaskell
94 pages (color)
The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction
2001
Westbridge, Anthony R. and Diana L. Bodnar
622 pages
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Hill, Charles C
374 pages (color)
By A Lady: Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women
1992
Tippett, Maria
226 pages (color)
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)
Urban Images, Canadian Painting (Agnes Etherington Art Centre) (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Farr, Dorothy
124 pages
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Murals from a Great Canadian Train
1986
Thom, Ian
191 pages (color)
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
Who's Who in American Art, Fifteenth Edition, 1982
1982
R.R. Bowker Co. (Editors)
1,204 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
From Women's Eyes: Women Painters in Canada Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Farr, Dorothy; Natalie Luckyj
81 pages
Canadian Painting in the Thirties (National Gallery of Canada Exhibition Catalogue) (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Hill, Charles C
223 pages (color)
A Dictionary of Canadian Artists (8 Volumes)
1974
MacDonald, Colin, S.
3,667 pages
Eclectic Eve
1972
Cameron, Janice et al
125 pages
Four Decades: The Canadian Group of Painters and their Contemporaries, 1930-1970
1972
Duval, Paul
192 pages (color)
Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection
1970
Bradfield, Helen Pepall
603 pages
The McMichael Conservation Collection of Canadian Art
1967
Duval, Paul
96 pages (color)
The National Gallery of Canada: Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Volume III
1960
Hubbard, R.H.
463 pages
Catalog of Paintings National Gallery of Canada (Exhibition catalog)
1948
National Gallery Of Canada
271 pages
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by the 'Canadian Group of Painters'
1936
Lismer, Arthur
12 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index