John MacGregor
Painter as Time Traveller
- Publisher
- The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1993
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780921500308
- Publish Date
- Jan 1993
- List Price
- $10
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Description
Canadian artist John MacGregor explores painting, collage and sculpture in this thematic exhibition. In painting his series, he is something of a "time traveller," recording his subjects through different moods, weathers, atmospheres, and dimensions.Translation of Joan Murray's essay to French by Paul Mostovac: Fantasy, Whimsy, and the Art of John MacGregor=Imagination, fantaisie et l'art de John MacGregor.
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