Research Catalog

Title

Ken Danby : beyond the crease / with essays by Ihor Holubizky and Greg McKee.

Publication

• Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Holubizky, Ihor
• McKee, Greg
• Danby, Ken, 1940-2007.
• Art Gallery of Hamilton (Ont.) host institution.

Description

196 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 29 cm

Summary

"Ken Danby (1940-2007) was one of Canada's foremost practitioners of contemporary realism. Rooted in the Canadian psyche, nourished by his Ontario rural roots, Danby's subject matter was broad and expansive, yet it was the images of Canadian landscapes and life that captured the public's attention. At the Crease, a 1972 egg tempera painting depicting a nameless hockey goalie viewed from ice-level, was his best-known work, and for many, it defined him as an artist. An accomplished painter, watercolourist, printmaker, and commercial artist, Danby's career began to unfold with a modernist narrative in the 1960s and 1970s. It intersected with the fervent nationalism expressed in the music of Ian and Sylvia Tyson, Gordon Lightfoot, and Joni Mitchell. According to art historian Patrick Hutchings, Danby's paintings bring us "face to face with a moment of our own time." Ken Danby: Beyond the Crease, the first major book on Ken Danby's creative practise in two decades, examines the depth and breadth of Danby's work. Designed to accompany a major retrospective exhibition organized by the Art Gallery of Hamilton, it features an essay by art historian Ihor Holubizky, a detailed chronology by Christine Braun, more than sixty reproductions of Danby's major paintings, including At the Crease, Lacing Up, Pancho, and Pulling Out, and dozens of archival photographs, as well as Danby's own words about his life and work drawn from an unpublished autobiographical essay that he completed shortly before his death. Danby's work is highly collectable and can be found in numerous private and public collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Gallery of Canada; the Musée des beaux arts, Montreal; the Art Gallery of Vancouver; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Brooklyn Museum. Ken Danby became a member of the Order of Canada in 2001."--

Alternative Title

Beyond the crease

Subjects

• Exhibition catalogs
• Danby, Ken, 1940-2007 > Expositions
• Danby, Ken, 1940-2007 > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued By (note)

• Co-published by the Art Gallery of Hamilton.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Exhibitions (note)

• Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ont., from October 22, 2016 to January 15, 2017.

Contents

Foreword / Shelley Falconer -- Realism and the real: a preface, in dialogue with Mario Amaya and with Patrick Hutchings eavesdropping / Ihor Holubizky -- Ken Danby on the artist's life -- The serigraphs / Greg McKee -- The graphic work: a conversation between Ken Danby and Andrew J. Oko -- Ken Danby on printmaking -- Select chronology / Christine Braun.

ISBN

• 9780864929631
• 0864929633

OCLC

• 950449761
• SCSB-10035239

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library