Edna Tȧon /
"Edna Tȧon (1905-1980) became a prominent figure in the Toronto art world in the 1940s, where she had a crucial impact on the development of abstract painting. Described as "Canada's leading proponent of non-objective art," she split her time between Toronto and New York, where h...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto, Ontario : Fredericton, New Brunswick :
Art Gallery of Ontario ; Goose Lane Editions,
[2025]
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| Summary: | "Edna Tȧon (1905-1980) became a prominent figure in the Toronto art world in the 1940s, where she had a crucial impact on the development of abstract painting. Described as "Canada's leading proponent of non-objective art," she split her time between Toronto and New York, where her practice was in step with leading avant-garde artists. Edna Tȧon: Verve and Decorum is both a concise exhibition and a richly-coloured catalogue of Tacon's rarely seen oil paintings, watercolours, and paper collages, along with archival sketches, correspondence and photographs of the artist. The volume will include two curatorial essays, with research gleaned from newly uncovered archival sources and interviews with the artist's family members. Verve and Decorum focuses specifically on Tȧon's works from the 1940s, which despite their early success, are little known today. The paintings are characterized by floating compositions, flowing lines and luminous forms rendered through loose blending of colours. A trained violinist, Tȧon considered music and abstraction as similarly intuitive, and once described her work as an arena in which "verve and decorum" collide, and where "unexpected devices of design dash into a bright rhythm.""-- |
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| Item Description: | Catalogue of the exhibition "Edna Tȧon: Verve and Decorum," held at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Feb. 28 - Aug. 30, 2026. |
| Physical Description: | 105 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) , portraits, facsimiles ; 24 x 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781773104553 1773104551 |