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Correspondence between Bertram Brooker and the Editor of the Toronto Daily Star
Part of: Correspondence between Bertram Brooker and the Editor of the Toronto Daily Star (2 objects)
| Title: | Correspondence between Bertram Brooker and the Editor of the Toronto Daily Star |
| Collections: | Bertram Brooker fonds Prairie Prestige: How Western Canadian Artists Have Influenced Canadian Art |
| Description: | An undated letter to the Editor of the Toronto Daily Star by Bertram Brooker. Brooker writes in response to an editorial on Canadian Art that makes reference to unfavourable reviews of the Group of Seven's Wembley Exhibition, which opened in December, 1924. Brooker objects to the placement of an unsympathetic and even mocking treatment of the artists on the editorial page, as it enlists institutional support for the writer's judgement on the art. He then goes on to defend the seriousness and committment of the Group of Seven Painters, outlining in the process the formal aims of modern painting's concern with capturing "the Thing-in-Itself" rather than a representation of its photographic likeness. |
| Format: | text |
| Date: | 1925 |
| Subjects: | Brooker, Bertram, 1888-1955 |
| Place: | Toronto, Ontario |
| Creator: | Brooker, Bertram, 1888-1955 |
| Contributor: | Toronto Daily Star |
| Languages: | English |
| Physical Location: | University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections - Bertram Brooker fonds (MSS 16, A.80-53) |
| Original File MIME Type: | original TIFF; web accessible JPEG |
| Local Identifier: | UM_mss016_A80-053_001_0011_077_0001 |
| Source: | Bertram Brooker fonds - University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections |
| Source: | Prairie Prestige: How Western Canadian Artists Have Influenced Canadian Art |
| Permalink: | http://hdl.handle.net/10719/1734335 |
| Copyright: | For copyright information please contact archives@umanitoba.ca |