Harold Town

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The extraordinary life and groundbreaking art of one of the key innovators in Abstract Expressionism Harold Town (19241990) began drawing as a three-year-old and never stopped. A prodigious worker, his oeuvre totals some nine thousand works-paintings, collages, monoprints, lithographs, silk screens and linocuts, as well as assemblages, sculptures and murals. A founding member of Painters Eleven, the group that propelled Abstract Expressionism to the forefront in Canada in 1953, Town gained international recognition for his technically inventive Single Autographic Prints. His work is held in the world's renowned art museums-Tate Modern; MoMA in New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; and Galleria d'Arte in Lugano, Switzerland, among them. AUTHOR: Iris Nowell is the author of seven books and this volume is her fourth art book. Her bestselling 'Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art, 2010', was the winner of the Alcuin Award for Excellence in Book Design, is now in its third printing. 110 images

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Iris Nowell's background in art is extensive. She has worked as an art consultant on major projects for the City of Toronto and the Province of Ontario, as well as in the private sector. She was the art researcher for Tom Thomson: The Silence of the Storm by Harold Town and David Silcox. Her book Hot Breakfast for Sparrows: My Life with Harold Town, was hailed by The Toronto Star as "one of the finest memoir biographies of the last few years." Her book Joyce Wieland: A Life in Art has been a staple of women's studies programs in universities across Canada. Her book Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art is now in its third printing. Nowell lives in Toronto.