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Correspondence between Bertram Brooker and the Editor of the Toronto Daily Star - Correspondence between Bertram Brooker and the Editor of the Toronto Daily Star

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
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