A New Beginning
Watercolours by John Lander
- Publisher
- The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1988
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781926589190
- Publish Date
- Jan 1988
- List Price
- $1
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Description
This exhibiiton features John Lander's still-life painting, in particular his flowers and vases. In his still-lifes, Lander shows his use of realism and paints with an eloquent and precise watercolour technique. Lander, "I have been combining images drawn from life with photographs I made outside the studio."
About the author
Joan Murray, an independent curator and art historian, is considered one of the most accessible of Canadian art writers and has studied and exhibited Tom Thomson for four decades. Since the late 1960s, she has been a curator of several institutions, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, and director of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa (1974-99) and the McMichael Canadian Art Gallery in Kleinburg (2005-6). Murray was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy in 1992 and has been honoured with the Senior Award from the Association of Cultural Executives, the Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries and the Order of Ontario. She lives in Toronto, Ontario