Ray Cronin

Ray Cronin is a writer and curator living in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. In 2023 he was named the Curator of Canadian Art at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. From 2001 to 2015 he worked at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia as Curator and as Director and CEO. He is the founding curator of the Sobey Art Award and the author of thirteen books on Canadian art, including Our Maud: The Life, Art and Legacy of Maud Lewis and .

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Alex Colville: A Rebellious Mind
Ray Cronin

2019 / Canadian Art, Biography, Artists / $21.95
9781554471881 / Trade paper / 64 pp


A Gaspereau Field Guide to Canadian Artists: No. 3

While serving as a Canadian war artist in Europe during the Second World War, Alex Colville (1920–2013) was immersed in the overwhelming nihilism and horror of the period, witness to the enactment of humanity’s darkest possibilities. Colville’s war-time experience ultimately animated his remarkable painting career. The style of representational painting he developed—where realism is heightened by the artist’s assertion of order through composition—expresses the tenets of his personal revolt against chaos and despair; if these prospects lurk in even his most intimate, domestic images, so also do order and hope, charging Colville’s art with tension and vitality.



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Herménégilde Chiasson: In Acadie
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2024 / Canadian Art, Biography, Artists / $22.95 CAN
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Alan Syliboy: Culture is Our Medicine
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Maud Lewis: Creating an Icon
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Mary Pratt: Still Light
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2018 / Canadian Art Biography, Artists / $21.95 CAN
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