
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Quebec's Eastern Townships are home to a higher concentration of artists than anywhere else in Canada. With his starting and finishing point being Frederick Coburn (1871â1960), arguably Canada's best-known painter at the peak of his career, author Nick Fonda sets out to revisit his work and provide new insights and facts into Coburn's life and surroundings. To better understand the man, he also introduces other accomplished artists living and working in the same areaânot all landscape paintersâwho have followed quite unusual paths as they responded to the same muse that moved Coburn a century ago. Based on interviews with neighbors and Coburn aficionados and Nick Fonda's own thorough understanding of the milieu in which Coburn grew up, lived, and worked, Hanging Fred and a Few Others is a lively and fascinating story of an important artist but also a reflection on the role of placeâthe Eastern Townshipsâin an artist's life. In addition to being a biography of Coburn, Nick Fonda's book provides brief biographical sketches of other artists including Minnie Gill, Denis Palmer, Mary Martin, Stuart Main, France Jodoin, and Kevin Sonmor.
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Table of contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The First Painting
- 2 Lâenfant prodige
- 3 Gordon Pearson
- 4 His Fatherâs Scrapbook
- 5 Minnie Gill
- 6 The First Coburn and the Four Ds
- 7 Aaron Allan Edson
- 8 The Fortunate Few
- 9 Madeleine Audette
- 10 The Art Historian
- 11 Stefan Starenkyj
- 12 My Lunch with Monique
- 13 France Jodoin
- 14 Tsk! Tsk! Well, I never!
- 15 Kevin Sonmor
- 16 Gerald Stevens
- 17 Stuart Main
- 18 The Lovetts
- 19 Pauline Boudreau
- 20 The Not-So-Dirty Thirties
- 21 Mary S. Martin
- 22 The Models
- 23 Denis Palmer
- 24 The Sweet Second Summer of Frederick Simpson Coburn
- 25 Madeleine Lemire, RCA
- 26 A Great Artist
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements