| David B. Milne: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings Revised Edition Contributor(s): Milne, David (Author), Silcox, David P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802041027 ISBN-13: 9780802041029 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $738.15 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1998 Annotation: David Brown Milne (1881-1953) was, according to the distinguished American art critic Clement Greenberg, with John Marin and Marsden Harrier, one of the three most important artists of his generation in North America. Long a favourite of artists, art historians, curators, and collectors, Milne's high intelligence and fine sensibility are evident on every, page of this remarkable set of books. Over a span of more than fifty years Milne devoted himself to painting and to writing about painting. He produced nearly three thousand pictures and wrote many hundreds of pages of letters, many of them directly or indirectly about his art. Milne's notes, diaries, letters, and essays form a large part of the entries. Each entry contains the basic information about the medium, size, and date, and the full provenance of each work, its exhibition history, all printed references, and a complete list of documents in which it is referred. Milne often wrote comments about his paintings, assessing his achievements against his goals, analysing a problem, describing a sequence or process, illuminating the origin of his inspiration. These make the Catalogue a highly readable reference. Supplementary material, such as drawings in diaries or letters, are added to the entries in many cases. This is the first comprehensive, fully illustrated Catalogue Raisonne of the paintings of a Canadian artist. Over 2700 paintings in oil and watercolour are arranged in chronological order. Informative introductions begin each segment of Milne's life, providing useful biographical details, and a commentary on the paintings and their subsequent history. Included in the Catalogue are the major lists of paintingsprepared by Milne, key documents for any study of his work; as well as a nearly 1600-item bibliography, covering over one hundred years; a list of more than 575 exhibitions, providing all works in each exhibition; and a comprehensive title index. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - General - Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General - Art | History - General |
| Dewey: 759.11 |
| LCCN: 99188878 |
| Physical Information: 3.64" H x 9.89" W x 12.84" (13.08 lbs) 1328 pages |
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| Publisher Description: David Brown Milne (1882 - 1953) was one of the great artists of his generation in North America, according to the American art critic Clement Greenberg, who compared Milne with John Marin and Marsden Hartley. This comprehensive and fully illustrated Catalogue Raisonné of Milne's paintings is the first catalogue on this scale to be published for any Canadian artist, and it will be a standard for many years to come. The nearly three thousand paintings in oil and watercolour that David Milne produced in his long career are presented here in chronological order. There are also two hundred large-format colour reproducitons of his work. Milne has long been a favourite of artists, art historians, curators, and collectors, and his high intelligence and fine sensibility are evident on every page of this remarkable work. Over a span of more than fifty years Milne devoted himself to painting and also to writing about painting - assessing his achievements against his goals, analysing aesthetic problems, describing a sequence or process, illuminating the origins of his inspiration. He wrote many hundreds of pages of notes, letters, and autobiographical accounts, most of them directly or indirectly about his art. Substantial quotations from his writings make the Catalogue Raisonné a highly readable reference work. Each entry in the catalogue contains a black-and-white reproduction of the work, the basic information about the medium, size, and date, its full provenance and exhibition history, all printed references to it, a complete list of the documents in which it is referred to, and supplementary information, such as comments by the authors, related drawings, and cross-references, as appropriate. Short essays introduce each period of Milne's life, providing useful biographical details and information on the paintings and their subsequent history. The Catalogue Raisonné also contains the major lists of paintings prepared by Milne over the years, key documents for any study of his work. There is a list of nearly six hundred exhibitions in which his work appeared with full details and a 1600-item bibliography. A comprehensive title index is also included. |
Contributor Bio(s): Milne, David: - David B. Milne Jr. is the son of the artist and administrator of the Milne estate.Silcox, David P.: - David P. Silcox, Visiting and Associate Fellow at Massey College, is an art historian and arts administrator. He has published numerous reviews and articles on contemporary Canadian art as well as a number of exhibition catalogues. He is author of Painting Place: The Life and Work of David B. Milne (1996), two books on Christopher Pratt (1982, 1995), contributed to a volume on Jack Bush, and, with the late Harold Town, coauthored Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm (1977, 3rd edition 1989). |