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Three Clouds, watercolour and ink
1973,
5 ¾ x 8 ¾ in
14.7 x 22.4 cm
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Jigsaw Puzzle, puzzle contains
approximately 200 pieces reproducing
an original Harold Town painting
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Construction, acrylic and wood
(pop art), studio stamped signature
Harold Barling Town

Born in Toronto, 1924 – 1990

Harold Barling Town was an abstract painter, illustrator, printmaker, sculptor and writer.

He gained international recognition and, also rose to fame as a founding member of Painters Eleven (Toronto, 1953). Painters Eleven was a group of Canadian avant-garde abstract painters that helped to establish Modern art in Canada.

Two retrospective exhibitions were organized for Harold Town by the Windsor Art Gallery (1975) and the Art Gallery of Ontario (1986).

1943 - 1945 Ontario College of Art, Toronto

Selected Exhibitions

2000 Oscar Cahén and Harold Town - Paint & Paper, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto
1999 Painters Eleven - Commemorative Exhibition, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto
1979 - 1991 Painters Eleven in Retrospect, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
1987 - 1990 Town. Works on Paper 1952 - 1987, Canada House, London; Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris. National tour
1990 Town. Four Decades, The Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto
1986 Harold Town. A Retrospective, Art Gallery Ontario, Toronto
1984 Toy Horse Drawings, Moore Gallery, Hamilton; Laing Galleries, Toronto
1980 Poets and Other People. Drawings by Harold Town. Art Gallery of Windsor
1975 Indications. Harold Town 1944 - 1975, Art Gallery of Windsor. Touring Exhibition
1973 Harold Town. The First Exhibition of New Work, 1969 - 1973, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa. Touring Exhibition
1972 Toronto Painting: 1953 - 1965, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; The Art Gallery of Toronto
1971 Silent Stars, Sound Stars, Film Stars, Sears Vincent Price Gallery, Chicago. Touring Exhibition
1970 Harold Town. Enigmas, Hart House, University of Toronto
1965 Eros '65, Dorothy Cameron Gallery, Toronto
1964 Canadian Painting, Tate Gallery, London; XXXII Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1963 Fifteen Canadian Artists, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1958 Painters Eleven with Distinguished Artists from Quebec, The Park Gallery, Toronto
1957 Painters Eleven 1957 Exhibition, The Park Gallery, Toronto; L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Montreal
1954 Painters Eleven, Roberts Gallery, Toronto






Text copied directly from artnet.com (http://artnet.com/Artists/), cbc.ca (http://archives.cbc.ca), and Robert Fulford's essay on Harold Town (http://www.robertfulford.com/town.html)
Harold Town is a renowned abstract painter and was a founding member of Painters Eleven (Canadian, 1924-1990).
La Parete Gallery – Fine Art Gallery - Toronto - Canada
La Parete Gallery is recognized for its selection of Fine Art: Canadian Art - Native Art - Inuit Art - First Nations Art - International Art
Artists: Antonio, Ann Beam, Carl Beam, Molly Lamb Bobak, David Bolduc, Miller Brittain, Christopher Broadhurst,
Israel Broytman, A.J. Casson, Antonio Cardarelli, J. Cardinal-Schubert, Konrad Cramer, Pal Fried, Richard Gorman, Giovanni Guarlotti,
Tom Hodgson, Gershon Iskowitz, Jean-Paul Jérôme, Lee L'Clerc, Maud Lewis, Kenneth Lochhead, Alexandra Luke
René Marcil, Norval Morrisseau, Louis Muhlstock, Louis de Niverville,
William Ogilvie, Frère Jérôme Paradis, William Ronald, Rolph Scarlett, Gerald Scott, Michael J. Seward, Arthur Shilling,
Roland Strasser, Peter Taçon, Harold Town, Jesus Carlos de Vilallonga, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Ruben Zellermayer