HAROLD TOWN "CHARLIE CHAPLIN WITH DANCERS" DRAWING, 1984Harold Town (1924 1990) is renowned across Canada for his eclectic and dynamic body of work. In the 1950s, Town established his reputation with a series of abstract monotypes (called "Single Autographic Prints"). He would exhibit these works at the Venice Biennale to great fanfare in Europe and beyond. By the 1960s, he was considered the most famous artist in Canada. Town experimented fearlessly. Consider how different his "Toy Horse" is from his

they addressed a broad range of social issues

Charles Pachter subverts his own iconography by creating a glorious oversized monarch butterfly hijacking a classic silhouette image of his beloved moose

mirroring the merging of poetry and music of Sitwell's Façade's

In the late 1980's Olitski embarked on a new chapter of art-making

reminiscent of chiaroscuro

Warhol was frequently drawing

atmospheric quality

This work is exceptional due to the surprising screen print on the verso

Co-Published by Ives-Sillman

contemporaries

A block or stripe of powder blue becomes a window on a burnt sienna background

such as filmmaker David Cronenberg and architect Carlos Ott