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Kathleen Munn

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Kathleen Jean Munn (1887 - 1974) was active/lived in Ontario, New York / Canada.  Kathleen Munn is known for Landscape, figure, biblical themes, still life, abstraction.

"Kathleen Munn, Life and Work" by Georgiana Uhlyarik

Kathleen Munn (1887–1974) is recognized today as a pioneer of modern art in Canada, though she remained on the periphery of the Canadian art scene during her lifetime. She imagined conventional subjects in a radically new visual vocabulary as she combined the traditions of European art with modern art studies in New York. She died at age eighty-seven, unaware that her long-held hope for “a possible future for my work” was about to become reality.

Kathleen Jean Munn was born into a large, closely knit middle-class family in Toronto in 1887. The Munns’ background was Methodist, but religion did not play a role in family life. James and Catherine (née Wetherald) Munn owned and ran a jewellery store at the intersection of Yonge and Bloor, and the family lived in the apartment above. They had three boys and three girls: Clarkson (died as an infant), William (ran the Munn store), Fredrick James (a doctor who died young),   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12361 characters.]  Artist bio

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14 Book References for Kathleen Munn
Year Author Title Pages Color
2013 Editor, Art Gallery of Ontario AGO: Highlights from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario 357 Yes
2010 Getty, Cassandra et al The Logic of Nature, The Romance of Space: Elements of Canadian Modernist Painting (Art Gallery of Ontario) 177 Yes
2009 Grandbois, Michele, Anna Hudson and Esther Trepanier The Nude in Modern Canadian Art, 1920-1950 (Quebec Museum of Fine Arts) 191 Yes
2002 Newlands, Anne Canadian Art: From its Beginnings to 2000 355 Yes
1995 Hill, Charles C The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation
(Exhibition catalog)		 374 Yes
1994 Murray, Joan Origins of Abstraction in Canada: Modernist Pioneers
(Exhibition catalog)		 59 Yes
1992 Tippett, Maria By A Lady: Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women 226 Yes
1989 Boyanoskji, Christine Permeable Border: Art of Canada and the United States 1920-1940 (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto) 70 No
1975 Hill, Charles C Canadian Painting in the Thirties (National Gallery of Canada Exhibition Catalogue)
(Exhibition catalog)		 223 Yes
1974 MacDonald, Colin, S. A Dictionary of Canadian Artists (8 Volumes) 3667 No
1970 Bradfield, Helen Pepall Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection 603 No
1966 Harper, J Russell Painting in Canada: A History (Second Edition) 443 No
1932 Robson, A. H. Canadian Landscape Painters 227 Yes
1925 MacTavish, Newton The Fine Arts in Canada 181 Yes
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