Roald Nasgaard is professor emeritus in art history at Florida State University. His long and distinguished museum career includes fifteen years as chief curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario. He is the author of numerous books, including the critically acclaimed Abstract Painting in Canada. Gwendolyn Owens is director of Curatorial Affairs of the Visual Arts Collection of McGill University. Her publications include articles, exhibition catalogues, and books on a variety of subjects, from mid-nineteenth century American landscape painters to David Milne and Melvin Charney.
"Sets Harris within the fuller North American story, teasing out
further complexities. ... This move is all to the good; the
argument has now been irrefutably made regarding Harris’s
connection to the abstract trends of his time on both sides of the
border."
*Literary Review of Canada*
"An extraordinary, comprehensive, and beautifully illustrated
history of a major Canadian painter and unreservedly
recommended."
*Midwest Book Review*
"Higher States is about Harris, but it’s also about us: A selective
myth countered by a fuller version of perhaps our best-loved
artistic icon, whose complications are often left in the margins in
the service of promoting simplified patriotism."
*Toronto Star*
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