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David G Burnett Colville
mcClelland and Stewart 1983 091987696X / 9780919876965 Paperback Like New
"'Paperback, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked, no spine or cover creases, some light cover edge wear. Alex Colville was born in Toronto in 1920 and grew up in Amherst, Nova Scotia, where his family moved in 1929. A bout of pneumonia contracted that year led to a long convalescence, and his interest in art dates from this period of enforced solitude. In 1938, Colville began attending Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, where he studied principally under Stanley Royle. He graduated in 1942 with a bachelor of fine arts, one of the first degrees of this type to be granted in Canada. Royle, who had trained at the Sheffield School of Art in England, was a disciple of anti-modernist, realist trends, with a special interest in Georges Seurat and the Italian painters of the early Renaissance - an interest shared by Colville. According to him, Royle ''considered drawing important. There was much emphasis on construction. Drawing was analysis.'' The series of 24 preparatory s...'' ID: mon0000010778"
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179.54 USD
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