Nova Scotia Folk Art

Author : Ray Cronin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 1771088346

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Nova Scotia Folk Art by Ray Cronin Pdf

There may be many folk artists in Canada, but there is only one integrated folk art scene: the one in Nova Scotia. Classic folk art is the work of artists who did not think of themselves as artists, who made art that they never considered to be art at all. There were no festivals, no galleries, and no touring exhibitions when they started--just a sign by the side of the road, a painted house, or colourful sculptures in the yard to attract the attention of passers-by. Today in Nova Scotia, contemporary folk art has become a distinct style, one which stresses individual creativity over collective utility. The maker, and their stories, is central to the appeal. Written by former Art Gallery of Nova Scotia curator Ray Cronin, Nova Scotia Folk Art features profiles of fifty artists--some obscure and some well known--from the first, second, and third waves of folk art. The list includes Barry Colpitts, Laura Kenney, Ralph Boutilier, Craig Naugler, Joseph Norris, and Maud Lewis. With more than 150 colour images, this illustrated guide explores the exhibitions, collections, and festivals that allowed a group of Nova Scotia artists to move their creations from the roadside to the museum, and in so doing to create its own genre: Nova Scotia Folk Art.

Author : Bernard Riordon,Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Folk art
ISBN : 1551091194

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Nova Scotia Folk Art by Bernard Riordon,Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Pdf

Author : Nova Scotia Folk Art Festival Society,Bernard Riordan,Robin H. Wyllie,Harold Pearse
Publisher : [Bridgewater, N.S.] : Nova Scotia Folk Art Festival Society
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Folk art
ISBN : 0968022308

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A Joyous Vision by Nova Scotia Folk Art Festival Society,Bernard Riordan,Robin H. Wyllie,Harold Pearse Pdf

Author : Erin Morton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773599864

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For Folk’s Sake by Erin Morton Pdf

Folk art emerged in twentieth-century Nova Scotia not as an accident of history, but in tandem with cultural policy developments that shaped art institutions across the province between 1967 and 1997. For Folk’s Sake charts how woodcarvings and paintings by well-known and obscure self-taught makers - and their connection to handwork, local history, and place - fed the public’s nostalgia for a simpler past. The folk artists examined here range from the well-known self-taught painter Maud Lewis to the relatively anonymous woodcarvers Charles Atkinson, Ralph Boutilier, Collins Eisenhauer, and Clarence Mooers. These artists are connected by the ways in which their work fascinated those active in the contemporary Canadian art world at a time when modernism – and the art market that once sustained it – had reached a crisis. As folk art entered the public collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the private collections of professors at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, it evolved under the direction of collectors and curators who sought it out according to a particular modernist aesthetic language. Morton engages national and transnational developments that helped to shape ideas about folk art to show how a conceptual category took material form. Generously illustrated, For Folk’s Sake interrogates the emotive pull of folk art and reconstructs the relationships that emerged between relatively impoverished self-taught artists, a new brand of middle-class collector, and academically trained professors and curators in Nova Scotia’s most important art institutions.

Author : Richard Henning Field
Publisher : Halifax : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN : UVA:X001108393

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Spirit of Nova Scotia by Richard Henning Field Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Folk art
ISBN : OCLC:1194903070

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Nova Scotia Folk Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Publisher : Halifax : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Artists
ISBN : LCCN:85838361

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Folk Art of Nova Scotia by Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Pdf

Author : Carol Bruneau
Publisher : Vagrant Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771088834

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Brighten the Corner Where You Are by Carol Bruneau Pdf

In this bittersweet novel inspired by the life of Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis, master storyteller Carol Bruneau gives voice to the artist, allowing her to speak from beyond the grave, freed from the stigmas of gender, poverty and disability that marked her life and shaped her art.

Author : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Publisher : Halifax : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Folk art
ISBN : 0888717083

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Nova Scotia Collects by Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Pdf

Author : Ken Laffal,John Vivolo
Publisher : First Glance Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Primitivism in art
ISBN : 0913622044

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Vivolo and His Wooden Children by Ken Laffal,John Vivolo Pdf

Author : Lance Woolaver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0995001707

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Maud Lewis by Lance Woolaver Pdf

Maud Lewis THE HEART ON THE DOOR is the first full-length biography of Maud Lewis (1901-1970), the famous Nova Scotia folk artist. It includes detailed accounts of her disabilities, including a childhood battle with the juvenile rheumatoid arthritis which twisted her hands and joints. Despite this deepening and painful affliction she completed and sold thousands of bright pictures and Christmas cards from her little one-room house in Marshalltown, Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Throughout her marriage to the illiterate Poor Farm watchman, Everett Lewis, she suffered from poverty and loneliness, yet triumphed over all with her brilliant, colourful and happy paintings. Her husband would be murdered for his lockbox of savings taken from the sales of Maud's pictures, on New Year's Day of 1979. This book also gives a detailed account of the life of Everett Lewis and his incarceration as a child in the Digby County Poor Farm. This biography concludes that Maud Lewis, born Maud Catherine Dowley in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 1901, gave birth to a daughter, Catherine Dowley, in 1928, and traces the life of Maud's daughter until her passing. Catherine's attempts to contact and be accepted by her mother, Maud Lewis, are documented. Catherine's father, Emery Allen, the love of Maud's life, abandoned Maud to the scandal of small-town life and to her increasing disabilities and loneliness. Excerpts: "This is a story written in heartbreak. It is the story of a child's wish to be accepted as a human being. It is a story of murder, poverty and treasure. It is the story of the worth of art in the struggle against pain. This is a story of broken families, of lonely lives, of a lost love and abandonment. It is a story of murder and a lockbox treasure. It is the story of a man who made a woman pay for his own frailties. All must be taken together. They belong to each other." "Many of the famous of our time - the actor Peter Falk, Premier Robert L. Stanfield, the actor Judy Dench - would come to admire Maud's pictures. Her pictures cheered them up. As with many, however, who came to visit with Maud in her crooked little house, these famous would never know the strange secrets of this difficult life. Lance Woolaver, Digby County, Nova Scotia, 2016

Author : Ken Martin
Publisher : Halifax : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0888714572

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A Life of Its Own by Ken Martin Pdf

"In 1993-94, Chris Huntington donated a collection of 55 folk art works to the Gallery."--Page 3.

Author : Bernard Riordon,Joe Norris
Publisher : Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions ; Halifax : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 086492318X

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Joe Norris by Bernard Riordon,Joe Norris Pdf

Goose Lane Editions and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia have released the first comprehensive book on the art of Joe Norris, one of Canada's greatest folk artists. The book was published in conjunction with a major show of Norris's work which opened November 25, 2000 at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and toured the country through 2003. Joe Norris was one of Nova Scotia's greatest folk artists. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and lived in Lower Prospect, Halifax County. For much of his life, he worked as a fisherman and construction worker. At the age of 49, a severe heart attack forced him into retirement and, at the encouragement of a visiting nurse who provided him with materials and prodded him to do a little painting each day, he began to make pictures for himself and for friends. Joe Norris is probably best known for his brilliantly coloured scenes of the rocky coves of Nova Scotia, his paintings of seagulls (sitting on islands or sprinkled about the cove), his hot pink horizons, animals and ships, his paintings of winter night scenes, invariably (and appropriately) titled "Starry Night." His work appears on traditional canvas or panel, but also on picture frames, tables, rocking chairs, stools, chests of drawers, and even fireplace mantels. The cove scenes and seagull paintings of Joe Norris have become icons of Nova Scotia over the past quarter century and many people consider the artist to be a national treasure. During his lifetime, his work was represented by Houston North Galleries and the Mira Godard Gallery and is now included in many private and public collections, including the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the McMichael Collection. Joe Norris embodied the free and lively spirit of folk artists who work outside the mainstream, free of any preconceived notions of what art ought to be. His simple paintings arouse feelings of joy in all but the most jaded viewers and provide a window open to his tranquil, but captivating, kingdom by the sea. This tribute to Joe Norris chronicles his life and work in the little fishing village of Lower Prospect, Nova Scotia, twenty-five kilometres and a lifetime away from Halifax. The book features almost 100 colour reproductions of his paintings, a dozen or more documentary photographs, text by Bernard Riordon that places Joe Norris and his work within the context of North American folk art, and shorter essays by Chris Huntington, John Houston, and Philip Brooks.

Author : Shanda LaRamee-Jones,Carol McDougall
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing (CN)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1771085215

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Maud Lewis 1,2,3 by Shanda LaRamee-Jones,Carol McDougall Pdf

Maud Lewis 1-2-3 is a wonderful first counting book and introduction to the joy-filled art of Nova Scotia's most famous folk painter, Maud Lewis. Even the youngest babies will be drawn to the bright colours and bold forms in Lewis's whimsical paintings. Babies and toddlers will have fun searching the vibrant images to count the kittens, oxen, birds, and flowers on each page.

Author : Laurie Hamilton
Publisher : Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0864923341

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The Painted House of Maud Lewis by Laurie Hamilton Pdf

For many years, Maud Lewis was one of Nova Scotia's best-loved folk painters. In the 1990s she was embraced by the rest of the country when the landmark exhibition of her work The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis travelled across Canada. By the time the tour was over, half a million people had become acquainted with her delightful work. Between 1938, when she married Everett Lewis, until her death in 1970, Maud Lewis lived in a tiny one-room house near Digby, Nova Scotia. Over the years, she painted the doors inside and out, the windowpanes, the walls and cupboards, the wallpaper, the little staircase to the sleeping loft, the woodstove, the breadbox, the dustpan, almost everything her hand touched. Her house was a joy to behold, and it became a magnet for tourists as well as a focal point in her village. In 1979, after Everett Lewis died, the Maud Lewis Painted House Society worked diligently to raise funds to acquire, preserve, and display the house as part of the cultural heritage of the area as well as a memorial to their beloved artist. In 1984, the house and its contents were purchased by the Province of Nova Scotia for the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. In The Painted House of Maud Lewis, Laurie Hamilton, the conservator at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, shows how all the different parts of the house -- the building itself, the painted household items, even the wallpaper -- were catalogued, conserved, and prepared for exhibition. The preliminary stages of conservation treatment began in 1996 in a most unusual location: the Sunnyside Mall in Bedford, just outside Halifax, where conservators worked in full view of the public. The conservators used established techniques and invented new ones to complete their unique project and documented every stage of the restoration photographically. The book also features more than sixty-five colour photos including several taken by noted photographer Bob Brooks in 1965 for the Star Weekly. Today, anyone can visit the tiny house that has become a folk art phenomenon. The restoration story spans two decades, but the story of the Painted House continues as each new visitor to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia finds delight and inspiration in Maud Lewis's joyous vision.