George McLean: The Living Landscape

Eichhorn, Virginia, Adam Duncan Harris, and Tom Smart

ISBN 10: 0864926251 / ISBN 13: 9780864926258

Published by Goose Lane Editions, Fredericton, New Brunswick, 2010

About this Item

Association copy, signed and inscribed by McLean to writer Doug Peacock. Oblong octavo (22 cm), pp. 158. Pictorial jacket, gray cloth with gilt titling, decorative endpapers. Includes essays by Virginia Eichhorn, Adam Duncan Harris, and Tom Smart. Lushly illustrated with color prints, includes Notes, Catalogue of Works in the Exhibition, Author Biographies and Index. Jacket and boards with light bumping at spine, upper board slightly warped.

Seller Inventory # 37514

Bibliographic Details

• Title: George McLean: The Living Landscape
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions, Fredericton, New Brunswick
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0864926251
• ISBN 13: 9780864926258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Visual Arts

About this title

Synopsis

For more than forty years, George McLean has lived in a stone farmhouse on 100 acres of land in Grey County, Ontario. On his daily walks, he looks for a moment that will inspire him the first step in a process that can take up to a year to yield a single painting.

McLean's densely layered depictions of the natural world emerge directly from his intense interest in wildlife. In this sumptuous book, Virginia Eichhorn, Adam Duncan Harris, and Tom Smart examine the development of McLean's art and trace his varied influences, from early 20th-century wildlife artists Carl Rungius and Bruno Liljefors to Andrew Wyeth. Connecting with past traditions while resonating with contemporary audiences, McLean's work, along with that of many realists before him, reflects a shared sense of what it means to be North American.

Illustrated with more than 60 colour reproductions, the publication of George McLean: The Living Landscape coincides with the opening of an accompanying international touring exhibition of McLean's work at the Tom Thomson Gallery in Owen Sound.

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About the Author

Virginia Eichhorn is the Director and Curator of the Tom Thomson Art Gallery. From 2004 to 2009, she was Curator of the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery in Waterloo, Ontario. As an independent curator, she has presented Canadian exhibitions worldwide, including at the XII Biennale of Art at Vila Nova de Cerveira in Portugal. She has written numerous catalogue essays and has contributed to art magazines such as Border Crossings, Canadian Art, and ESPACE Sculpture.