Cities: John Hartman
July 17, 2008 - September 06, 2008
The Art Gallery of Sudbury is pleased to have been recently added to the national tour of the Ontario based painter, John Hartman.
In 2007, Scotiabank Group celebrated its 175th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the bank selected to sponsor Cities: John Hartman as part of its commitment as a corporate patron of contemporary Canadian Art.
John Hartman has painted cities both large and small, from Parry Sound, Port Severn and Owen Sound on shores of Georgian Bay, to London, New York, Toronto, Montreal and Glasgow. He writes: "The water reflects the sun and creates an intensity of light above these places. The light in the sky is so different in feeling from the material density of the cities themselves, but both are full of possibilities for painting."
Cities is accompanied by a full colour, hard cover book published by Altitude Publishing. The book includes texts by curator Stuart Reid, Tom Thomson Art Gallery; Noah Richler, author of This Is My Country, What's Yours?: A Literary Atlas Of Canada; and includes a foreword by Dennis Reid, Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Ontario.
