James Wilson Morrice
Paintings and Drawings of Venice
James Wilson Morrice: Paintings and Drawings of Venice is the first comprehensive overview of the artist's images of Venice, Italy.
Living in Paris for most of his life, Morrice (1865-1924) was the first Canadian painter to make regular trips to Venice from the mid 1890s to about 1908. This book situates Morrice within the history of Venice and Venetian art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by looking carefully at his more than 100 modernist paintings and numerous drawings of 'La Serenissima'. During his lifetime, Morrice's Venetian pictures appeared in art exhibitions in Paris, London and other European countries, as well as in Montreal and the United States. Constantly cited in exhibition reviews, Morrice was praised for his modernity, and his Venice works have ensured his fame and importance for years to come.
Sandra Paikowsky, C.M., is a senior historian of Canadian art. She is considered the authority on the Venetian paintings of James Wilson Morrice and has lectured on his work in Canada, the United States and Venice. She was the co-founder, publisher, and managing editor of the Journal of Canadian Art History / Annales d’histoire de l’art canadien for nearly four decades. In the 1980s and early 1990s, she was the director-curator of the Concordia Art Gallery, organising numerous exhibitions on Canadian art and writing the accompanying publications.
