UBC Press Canadian Art book Paperback 144 pages

Together with important First Nations material, the Thomson CanadianCollection is the largest of all private holdings of Canadian art.There are rare and incomparable examples of Northwest CoastAboriginal art. Krieghoff’s inspired accounts of life in theCanadas, prior to Confederation, bring the light and atmosphere ofhistory fully into the present. A staggering power to capture thefleeting and the fugitive in paint still distinguishes the work of theearly 20th-century painter Morrice. Tom Thomson and the Group of Sevenloaded their brushes with the raw pigment of the Canadian wilderness toset the enduring standard of Canadian landscape art. Milne, and thenBorduas, remain international leaders of experimental painterlypractice. Kurelek, by contrast, painted the story of his life withunparallelled intensity and individuality. Altogether these artiststell the rich story of the country Ken Thomson called home.