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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Edna Tȧon
  name:
    name part: Van der Avoird, Renée
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: contributor,
    role:
      role term: curator.
  name:
    name part: Art Gallery of Ontario
    role:
      role term: host institution,
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: exhibition catalogs.
  genre: Exhibition catalogs.
  genre: Catalogues d'exposition.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 105 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) , portraits, facsimiles ; 24 x 24 cm
  abstract: "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.""--
  table of contents: Directors foreword -- Curator's acknowledgements -- Verve and decorum : the non-objective art of Edna Tȧon / Reňe van der Avoird -- Grand-m̈re : an interview / Carl Tȧon & Reňe van der Avoird -- Works exhibited -- Additional illustrations & archival materials.
  note: [edited by] Reňe van der Avoird.
  note: Catalogue of the exhibition "Edna Tȧon: Verve and Decorum," held at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Feb. 28 - Aug. 30, 2026.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Taçon, Edna
      name part: 1905-1980
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Painting, Abstract
    geographic: Canada
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Peinture abstraite
    geographic: Canada
    temporal: 20e siècle
    genre: Expositions
  classification: ND249.T25 A4 2025
  classification: 759.11
  classification: cci1icc
  identifier: 9781773104553
  identifier: 1773104551
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 250402
    record change date: 20260530145626.6
    record identifier: in00005783284
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng