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Art Canadian

A Personal View

Photographs from the Collection of Carole and Howard Tanenbaum

with Margot Samuel

introduction by Joan Murray

Publisher
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Initial publish date
Jan 1992
Category
Canadian
  • 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

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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

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