David Milne
Subtitle: modern painting
By: edited by Sarah Milroy & Ian A.C. Dejardin
Contributors: Milne, David, 1882-1953; Milroy, Sarah, editor; Dejardin, Ian, editor; Dulwich Picture Gallery; Vancouver Art Gallery; McMichael Canadian Art Collection; National Gallery of Canada
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781781300619; 9781781300725
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Exhibitions; War artists; Canadian Landscape painting; Art and the war; Biography
Other titles: Modern painting
Description: This comprehensive survey of the life and work of the Canadian artist David Milne (1882-1953) accompanies the first UK exhibition of Milne's work at Dulwich Picture Gallery and brings together one hundred and twenty of his most significant works in oil, watercolour and dry-point printmaking. Like the members of the Group of Seven, Milne primarily chose landscape as his subject matter. However, his true subject was the process of perception and representation, reducing his painting to its essentials and infusing it with his own distinctive modern sensibility. Through the use of photographs, archival material and Milne's own writings the book presents a moving account of one man's spiritual and emotional voyage into modernity - from his early life in small town Ontario, to the bustling sidewalks of New York, on to the war torn landscapes of northern France as an official war artist and back again to the woods, lakes and fields of upstate New York. Pivoting as it does on Milne's war art, which includes some of the most formally daring of his career, the publication will serve as a poignant locus of remembrance, underscoring the historic bond between Canada and Great Britain, and offering a unique perspective on history through the eyes of one of Canada's most sophisticated modern painters.
Notes: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'David Milne: Modern Painting,' Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 14 February-7 May 2018, Vancouver Art Gallery, 16 June-16 September 2018, McMichael Collection of Canadian Art, 4 October 2018-13 January 2019."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Director's foreword; title: Dazzle and kick : the life of David Milne / Ian A. C. Dejardin; title: A mind of his own / Sarah Milroy; title: The New York years, 'Plunging into the sun' : David Milne in New York City / Katerina Atanassova; title: Into the woods, 'The mystery thing' : David Milne and spirituality / Katharine Lochnan; title: Document of war : modern catastrophe / Margaret MacMillan; title: Aftermath : five stumps / Anne-Marie Ninacs; title: Return to Canada : Milne's great indoors / Jane Urquhart; title: Milne's mineshafts : a conversation / Edward Burtynsky and Sarah Milroy; title: A sudden opening, motive for metaphor / John O'Brien; title: A radical shift at Six Mile Lake / David P. Silcox.