Author: Anne McDougall. Published by Harvest House Ltd., Montreal, QC, 1977, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Excellent Condition HARDCOVER Book, and Very Good Condition Dust Jacket with a cover scuff and handling wear. Clean inside, tight spine, slight age-yellowing. Size: 10.25 x 7 inch, 215 pages including index.ย
ANNE SAVAGE: The Story of a Canadian Painter, is a portrait biography of Anne Savage, a leading Canadian artist and artist-educator who was closely allied to the Group of Seven. Her paintings are to be found in the National Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and many others.
Anne Savage had a life-long artistic and sentimental relationship with A, Y. Jackson. In some ways, the core of this book is to be found in their letters. (Some 300 of A. Y. Jackson's were culled by the author for inclusion in this volume.) Through these and Anne Savage's own, there is a record of a painters friendship that spans fifty years.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Anne McDougall, or Anne MacDermot as she has been known in her journalistic career, is a niece of Anne Savage, She is able to bring many intimate memories and insights into her portrait of an unusual Canadian woman and artist who trained generations of Canadian painters.ย
For more info on the Artist, please see: Anne Savage | National Gallery of Canada
1st Edition Hardcover Book.ย
ISBN: 9780887721826 ย
GC&C Stock #3743
