ASSOCIATION OF MANITOBA MUSEUMS/ASSOCIATION OF MANITOBA ARCHIVISTS, Personal Thoughts, Private Lives
Year: 1991
Type: article
Abstract: picture in the exhibition, a watercolour entitled Night Camp 1898 (cat.no.88), was painted the year before O'Brien's death.Ninety-one years later, it is still a very inspiring work, captivating, subtle, sublime, looking backwards to somewhat older models, but at the same time forward-looking enough to forecast changes in the twentieth-century art scene in Canada.It is sad to think that we, the Canadian public, had to wait for nearly a century to examine Lucius R. O'Brien through more than ten paintings.It is a great accomplishment for the Art Gallery of Ontario to have brought together so many works from so many parts of the world.This was the first retrospective exhibition of Lucius O'Brien, and the Art Gallery of Ontario and curator Dennis Reid deserve national recognition for giving us this exhibition and its accompanying catalogue.The research is exhaustive, the criticism perceptive, the archival and art historical scholarship commendable; particularly useful are the sections on O'Brien's contemporaries.
Source: Archivaria
Author: Baltessen, Jody
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2120543079