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PublisherPedlar Press

ISBN-101897141823

ISBN-139781897141823

eBay Product ID (ePID)235718505

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Book TitleGerald Squires

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicIndividual Artists / Essays, Canadian

IllustratorYes

GenreArt

AuthorGerald Squires

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight32.1 Oz

Item Length11 in

Item Width9.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2017-380499

ReviewsCrummey's concluding pieces hit a perfect note. Crummey met Squires's at divergent times and places: a dinner party on Bond Street decades ago; the Bliss Murphy Cancer Clinic at the Health Sciences Centre a few months before Squires' death. To me, Crummey responds to Squires as we all did: he thought Squires was handsome; he just liked him; he knew it was always good to find yourself in Gerry and Gail's company. It could be simply the position of a fan, but once Squires' saw you were truly attentive, he engaged you at a level beyond that. And Crummey also writes of seeing Squires' painting installed at the St. John's International Airport, hung behind the luggage carts. This is how we all see him now, through the work he has left us, a portal into what he perceived. --Joan Sullivan, The Telegram, When Saturday Night magazine published "The Newfoundland Renaissance" in April, 1976, bringing the province's phenomenal blossoming of theatre, literature and visual art to national attention, the singular work of Gerald Squires was cited as a case in point.Mr. Squires, a painter, sculptor, lithographer and stained glass artist, was then living in a lighthouse in Ferryland with his wife, Gail, and two daughters. He was part of a group of artists known as "The Gang Down the Southern Shore," which included Frank Lapointe, Stewart Montgomerie, Don Wright and Heidi Oberheide.Sandra Gwyn, the article's author, called the shaggy and intense Mr. Squires "the kind of character who, even if he didn't live on the top of a cliff in an abandoned lighthouse with casements that really do look out on perilous seas and faery lands forlorn, is proof that there are still artists around who look and act as artists should." --Joan Sullivan, The Globe & Mail

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal759.11

SynopsisThere could be no more generous person than was Newfoundland artist Gerry Squires. Unlike David Blackwood in Ontario, Squires was a fully participating member of his Newfoundland community. His paintings and drawings graced the covers and the guts of many books, especially but not only of poetry, books by David Elliott, Enos Watts, Mary Dalton, Percy Janes, Tom Dawe and Des Walsh, magazines like Newfoundland Quarterly and The Newfoundland Herald. Des Walsh and Gerry Squires collaborated on **To Kiss the Mottled Birch, ** a large, beautiful, limited edition book of lithographs and poems. His long friendship with Tom Dawe resulted in a shared book, ** Where Genesis Begins, ** with poems by Dawe and pictures by Squires. Squires also illustrated Joel Thomas Hynes's **Say Nothing Saw Wood.** The last such collaboration, **The Legend of Job, ** with calligraphy by Boyd Chubbs and watercolours by Squires, presently exists in an edition of one. That the St John's NL arts community continues to grieve for the loss of man and artist is testament to his pronounced lifelong grace and courage. This book is his gift., Gerald Squires, an art-career retrospective of the Newfoundland artist Gerald Squires, who died in October 2015, examines lesser-known aspects of this beloved artist's creative journey. The book is set to be released in May 2017 during the opening of a Squires retrospective at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery in St John's. Featuring full colour reproductions of some of Squires' most renowned works as well as lesser-known illustrations of exemplary works, plus a complete chronology of his career, including a selected list of solo and group exhibitions, the book is augmented with a long essay by acclaimed Canadian literary critic Stan Dragland, and an appreciation by writer and poet Michael Crummey., Gerald Squires , an art-career retrospective of the Newfoundland artist Gerald Squires, who died in October 2015, examines lesser-known aspects of this beloved artist's creative journey. The book is set to be released in May 2017 during the opening of a Squires retrospective at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery in St John's. Featuring full colour reproductions of some of Squires' most renowned works as well as lesser-known illustrations of exemplary works, plus a complete chronology of his career, including a selected list of solo and group exhibitions, the book is augmented with a long essay by acclaimed Canadian literary critic Stan Dragland, and an appreciation by writer and poet Michael Crummey.

LC Classification NumberND249.S686D73 2017

Text byDragland, Stan, Crummey, Michael