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