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rfmcdonaldThe Art Gallery of Ontario's Welcome to Colville exhibition was superb.
Colville's iconic "To Prince Edward Island" was the first painting visible to the entering visitor.
"Elm Tree at Horton Landing" served as the cover image of an Alice Munro short story collection.
There was plenty of video of Colville himself, being interviewed on any number of subjects. Here, he was talking about his connection to the Maritimes.
1964's "Church and Horse" was well-documented, from sketch to final project. I did not know that the horse was inspired by John F. Kennedy's Black Jack.
Animals--especially wise animals like crows--featured heavily in Colville's work. (His belief that animals possessed an innocence that human beings lacked may have been partly inspired by his experience in the Second World War, especially at Dachau.)
The theme of the deportation of the Acadians underlies "French Cross."
Colville's noir tendencies took form in, among others, "Pacific" and the later "Woman with Revolver."
The exhibition covered every stage of Colville's life as an artist, from his early work as a student artist to the end of his long relationship with his wife and occasional model, Rhoda Wright.
It was superb.
Colville's iconic "To Prince Edward Island" was the first painting visible to the entering visitor.
"Elm Tree at Horton Landing" served as the cover image of an Alice Munro short story collection.
There was plenty of video of Colville himself, being interviewed on any number of subjects. Here, he was talking about his connection to the Maritimes.
1964's "Church and Horse" was well-documented, from sketch to final project. I did not know that the horse was inspired by John F. Kennedy's Black Jack.
Animals--especially wise animals like crows--featured heavily in Colville's work. (His belief that animals possessed an innocence that human beings lacked may have been partly inspired by his experience in the Second World War, especially at Dachau.)
The theme of the deportation of the Acadians underlies "French Cross."
Colville's noir tendencies took form in, among others, "Pacific" and the later "Woman with Revolver."
The exhibition covered every stage of Colville's life as an artist, from his early work as a student artist to the end of his long relationship with his wife and occasional model, Rhoda Wright.
It was superb.
