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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holubizky, Ihor, writer of added commentary.

McKee, Greg, writer of added commentary.

Art Gallery of Hamilton (Ont.), host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Danby, Ken, 1940-2007--Exhibitions.

Danby, Ken.

Danby, Ken, 1940-2007.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

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

Other Title:

Beyond the crease

Place of Publication:

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

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and Pulling Out, and dozens of archival photographs, as well as Danby's own words about his life and work drawn from an unpublished autobiographical essay that he completed shortly before his death.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."-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Co-published by the Art Gallery of Hamilton.

Local Notes:

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

Contains:

Danby, Ken, 1940-2007. Paintings. Selections.

ISBN:

9780864929631

0864929633

OCLC:

950449761