A Personal View
Photographs from the Collection of Carole and Howard Tanenbaum
- Publisher
- The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1992
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780921500148
- Publish Date
- Jan 1992
- List Price
- $20
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Description
The Tanenbaums have selected their favourites from their extensive collection of photographs. Eighty-eight photographs by 19th and 20th century photographers represent the works of Brassai, Model, Arbus, Feninger, Walker Evans and the Photo-Sessionists. The contemporary collection includes works by Evergon, Raphael Goldchain, Doug Clark and Arlene Collins. A French translation of the catalogue's text is included as a 4 page insert.
About the authors
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