Harold Town

Harold Town
Born
Harold Barling Town

(1924-06-13)June 13, 1924
Toronto, Ontario
DiedDecember 27, 1990(1990-12-27) (aged 66)
Peterborough, Ontario
EducationWestern Technical School, Ontario College of Art
Known forPainter, printmaker, illustrator
MovementPainters Eleven
SpouseTrudie Carol Tredwell

Harold Barling Town, OC D.Litt (June 13, 1924 – December 27, 1990) was a Canadian artist who worked in many different media, but is best known for his abstract paintings.[1]

He was a member of Painters Eleven, an abstract group of artists in Toronto (1954-1960). Town coined the name of the group, which was based simply on the number of artists that were present the first meeting.[2]

He also worked as an illustrator, a profession he credited with imparting a sense of discipline that would last throughout his entire artistic career.[3] His early illustrative appeared in magazines such as Maclean's and Mayfair.

Life and work

Harold Town was trained at Western Technical-Commercial School and the Ontario College of Art, both in Toronto. The Royal Ontario Museum gave him what he called a global horizon which influenced his commercial and abstract art.[3] His early work also reflected his interest in Pablo Picasso and Willem de Kooning.[4]

Gerta Moray in Harold Town: Life & Work described his collages as similar to his paintings, because in them he juxtaposed textures and fragments to startle the viewer.[3]

Town's work moved from a dark expressionist style to abstraction in vivid colours,[2] exploring a range of styles and media, using artistic traditions from other cultures to reflect his own experience.[3]

In the 1960s, Town developed colourful monotype prints which he called Single Autographic Prints, a phrase he never explained.[2] These won him awards in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia and Santiago, Chile, and the prints were acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.[5] Alfred Barr, then director of Museum of Modern Art, called Town one of the world's greatest printmakers.[4] Roald Nasgaard describes these prints as being of great finesse and subtlety.[6]

Honours

In 1956 and 1964, Town and others represented Canada at the Venice Biennale.[7] He also exhibited at the São Paulo Art Biennial in 1957 (receiving the Arno Award[1]) and 1961.[4] He became an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1958.[8][9] York University granted him an honorary doctorate in 1966.[1] He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1968.[1][10]

Town had retrospective exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Windsor in 1975 and the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1986.

In 1994, the Harold Town Conservation Area in Peterborough, Ontario was donated to Otonabee Conservation by Town's estate.[11]

Painters Eleven

Main article: Painters Eleven

In the late 1940s, Town joined Painters Eleven, but their early exhibitions were met with disdain.[12][13] The Riverside Museum in New York hosted the Twentieth Annual Exhibition of American Abstract Artists with 'Painters Eleven' of Canada in 1956.[14] A year later, American art critic Clement Greenberg paid a visit to Toronto.[15] In the Canadian press, the group's most ardent supporters were Robert Fulford and Pearl McCarthy, art critic of the Globe and Mail.[14]

Record sale prices

In Cowley Abbott's Live Auction of Important Canadian & International Art, Nov. 27, 2024, Lot ##83 Variation on a Variation (1957), oil and lucite on board, 48.25 x 45 in ( 122.6 x 114.3 cm ), Auction Estimate: $18,000.00 - $22,000.00 realized a price of $66,000.00.[16]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d "Harold Town". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
  2. ^ a b c Fulford, "Introduction"
  3. ^ a b c d Moray, Gerta (2014). Harold Town: Life & Work. Art Canada Institute. ISBN 978-1-4871-0026-1.
  4. ^ a b c Harold Town, The Canadian Encyclopedia, accessed August 29, 2019
  5. ^ "Collection". www.moma.org/. MoMA. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  6. ^ Roald Nasgaard, Abstract Painting in Canada, p.104
  7. ^ "Venice Biennale". National Gallery of Canada. Archived from the original on 2013-10-13. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  8. ^ McMann, Evelyn (1981). Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Retrieved 2022-06-04.
  9. ^ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  10. ^ "Harold B. Town, O.C., D.Litt., A.R.C.A." Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
  11. ^ "Harold Town Conservation Area".
  12. ^ Roald Nasgaard, Abstract Painting in Canada, p.92
  13. ^ Burnett and Schiff Contemporary Canadian Art, p. 46
  14. ^ a b Roald Nasgaard, Abstract Painting in Canada, p.96
  15. ^ Roald Nasgaard, Abstract Painting in Canada, p.91
  16. ^ "Works". cowleyabbott.ca. Cowley Abbott Auction, Live Auction of Important Canadian & International Art, nov. 2024. Retrieved 29 November 2024.

Further reading

  • Broad, Graham. "Art Shock in Toronto: Painters Eleven, The Shock of the New." The Beaver, Canada’s History Magazine Vol. 84:1 (2004).
  • Burnett, David G. Town. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1986. ISBN 0-7710-1781-2
  • Fulford, Robert. "Introduction." Magnificent Decade: The Art of Harold Town, 1955-1965. Toronto: The Moore Gallery, 1997.
  • Moray, Gerta. Harold Town: Life and Work. Harold Town: Life & Work. Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4871-0026-1
  • Nasgaard, Roald. Abstract Painting in Canada. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2008. ISBN 1-55365-394-7
  • Withrow, William J. Contemporary Canadian Painting. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972. ISBN 0-7710-9029-3
  • Nowell, Iris. "Hot Breakfast For Sparrows: My Life With Harold Town," Toronto; Stoddart Publishing, 1992, ISBN 0-7737-2645-4
  • Nowell, Iris. "Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art," Vancouver: Doublas & McIntyre, 2010. ISBN 978-1-55365-590-9

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