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A vital force : the Canadian Group of Painters / curated by Alicia Boutilier ; essays by Alicia Boutilier, Anna Hudson, Heather Home, Linda Jansma.

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Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University ; The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, c2013.

Canadian Group of Painters (Group of artists) -- Exhibitions.

Painting, Canadian -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

9781553392644 (pbk.)

1553392647 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Canadian Group of Painters : a vital force

137 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.

Catalogue for an exhibition held at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, from 16 March to 14 July 2013 ; at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, from 30 November 2013 to 3 February 2014 ; at the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, from 28 March to 1 June 2014 ; at the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, from 27 June to 21 September 2014.

Includes bibliographical references.

A vital force: the first twenty years / Alicia Boutilier -- Highlights from the exhibitions, 1933-1938 / Linda Jansma -- Time and image: picturing consciousness in modern Canadian painting / Anna Hudson -- Highlights from the exhibitions, 1939-1946 / Linda Jansma -- Sympathetic kinship: Isabel McLaughlin / Heather Home -- Highlights from the exhibitions, 1947-1953 / Linda Jansma.

One of the most important artistic groups in 20th-century Canadian art. Founded in 1933 in reaction to the established view of the Group of Seven as the "national art of Canada", this diverse group of progressive young artists was the first to aspire to cross-Canada representation of modernist art. Yet the Canadian Group of Painters (CGP) has not entered popular lexicon as did its famous predecessor. This publication sheds new light on the artistic and social impact of the CGP in the first and most dynamic decades of its existence, from 1933 to 1953. Forty-eight paintings by forty-eight key members convey the richness of the group's practice: new visions of landscape, bold depictions of people and fresh experiments in abstraction. In contrast to the Group of Seven, the Canadian Group of Painters was engaged with modern life during the turbulent times of the Depression, World War II and post-war reconstruction thereby making it a vital force.

Boutilier, Alicia Anna, 1968-

Hudson, Anna, 1963-

Jansma, Linda, 1962-

Canadian Group of Painters (Group of artists)

Agnes Etherington Art Centre.

Robert McLaughlin Gallery.

Owens Art Gallery.

Mendel Art Gallery.

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