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CELEBRATING LIFE: THE ART OF DORIS McCARTHY. THE McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION.
by Moore, William and Reid, Stuart, essays by. (Doris McCarthy - signed.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0777891220
- ISBN 13
- 9780777891223
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Kleinburg, Ontario: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2002. 239 pp, 11 1/2" H Signed by Doris McCarthy under colour frontispiece. Profusely illustrated with colour reproductions, colour and b&w photographs. "Already known and admired by all Canadians as one of this country's leading women artists, it is, perhaps, Doris McCarthy's personal characteristics that are most endearing to everyone whose lives she has touched." Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Chronology; Words From Those Who Know Her Best; Celebrating Life Through Her Art; Heart of Vision by William Moore; Island Sketches - Thoughts on the Watercolour Paintings of Doris McCarthy by Stuart Reid; Selected Bibliography. Slight twist to the spine, two small bumps to the fore-edge of the front board - one has a repaired tear, small bump at the bottom corner of the front board. Dust has jacket has light wrinkling at the top of the spine and at the bottom of the front flap-fold, archivally taped tear on the front flap-fold, light rubbing - mainly on the rear panel, now protected in a removable mylar sleeve.. Signed by Artist.. Reprint.. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Very Good-. Illus. by Doris McCarthy..
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- Bookseller
- Capricorn Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30961
- Title
- CELEBRATING LIFE: THE ART OF DORIS McCARTHY. THE McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION.
- Author
- Moore, William and Reid, Stuart, essays by. (Doris McCarthy - signed.)
- Illustrator
- Doris McCarthy.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Edition
- Reprint.
- ISBN 10
- 0777891220
- ISBN 13
- 9780777891223
- Publisher
- McMichael Canadian Art Collection
- Place of Publication
- Kleinburg, Ontario
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Doris McCarthy, Canadian Artists, Canadian Women Artists, Women Painters, Landscape Painters, Biography, Watercolour Paintings, 20th Century Canadian Art
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art - Canadian;
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