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  • Canadian Artists Bundle

    Emily Carr / Tom Thomson / James Wilson Morrice

    Series series Quest Biography
    Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. Canada’s vast wilderness presents many opportunities for artists to capture its beauty in their distinct styles, and the country has produced its share of talented landscape painters. Tom Thomson’s work is known the world over for its wild, vivid portrayals of Ontario’s wilderness. Emily Carr ... Leer más

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  • Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 21–25

    Louis Riel / James Wilson Morrice / Vilhjalmur Stefansson / Robertson Davies / James Douglas

    Series series Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 21–25
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  • Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 26–30

    William C. Van Horne / George Simpson / Tom Thomson / Simon Girty / Mary Pickford

    Series series Quest Biography
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  • Tom Thomson

    Artist of the North

    de Wayne Larsen ...
    Series Libro 28 - Quest Biography
    Tom Thomson (1877-1917) occupies a prominent position in Canada's national culture and has become a celebrated icon for his magnificent landscapes as well as for his brief life and mysterious death. The shy, enigmatic artist and woodsman's innovative painting style produced such seminal Canadian images as The Jack Pine and The West Wind, while his untimely drowning nearly a century ago is still a ... Leer más

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    Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: painters Tom Thomson and James Wilson Morrice; explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson; frontiersman Simon Girty; railway baron William C. Van Horne; early politicians George Simpson and James Douglas; revolutionary Metis leader Louis Riel; writer ... Leer más

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  • James Wilson Morrice

    Painter of Light and Shadow

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    Series Libro 22 - Quest Biography
    James Wilson Morrice (1865–1924) was a Canadian painter of extraordinary passion and simplicity whose canvases and oil sketches are valued throughout the world and cherished in Canada as our first real examples of modern art.Though cut short by chronic alcohol abuse, Morrice's restless bohemian life was spent in constant motion. From the colourful canals of Venice to the sun-drenched markets of ... Leer más

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    The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven

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