Product Description: A dazzling painter and master draftsman, Harold Barling Town (1924–1990) became known as “the Picasso of Canada.” Town started drawing as a three-year-old and never stopped; his oeuvre over 40 years totals more than 10,000 works — paintings, collages, works on paper, lithographs, assemblages, sculptures, and murals...read more

Product Description: In 1953 eleven Canadian Abstract Expressionist artists banded together to break through the barricades of traditional art at a time when landscapes were about the only paintings collectors were buying. Hungry for recognition, raging against the art establishment that was shutting them out, they decided to form a collective, expecting they would gain more attention as a group than as solo artists...read more

Product Description: They fork out 100 million for starter castles, 500,000 for a customized Mercedes, and 1.2 million for a watch. While Generation Deluxe explores the spending patterns of the wealthy, a dark underside emerges: excessive consumerism is creating serious damage to the environment and human life...read more

Product Description: “Joyce Wieland is one of Canada’s greatest artists of the last half of the twentieth century.” — Pierre Theberge, director of the National Gallery of Canada. Joyce Wieland triumphed over what she called “obscene poverty” to achieve international celebrity as a painter, collagist, quiltmaker, and filmmaker, celebrated as Canada’s most important woman artist next to Emily Carr...read more

Product Description: This book pays tribute to 14 women who donated millions of dollars to causes close to their hearts. Iris Nowell is the author of five books. Writing her 1996 book, Women Who Give Away Millions, has given her a solid foundation of philanthropy, the not-for-profit sector, and the wealthy...read more