There is a revealing photograph on the back cover of James King’s Inward Journey: The Life of Lawren Harris, por- traying the unofficial leader of the Ontario-based Group of Seven. Dressed in a smartly tailored three-piece suit, sporting a fashionable moustache and with immaculately coiffed hair, Lawren Harris does not conform to our perception of the strug- gling…
Maria Tippett
Maria Tippett is a former senior research fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and author of numerous books.
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Maria Tippett
Still Controversial, Sixty Years On
An Emily Carr biographer examines a new cross-Canada exhibition and its accompanying book of essays March 2007
Shortly before her death in the spring of 1945, Emily Carr told her confidant, Ira Dilworth, that the next generation would probably “scoff ” at her honours and consider her “trash.” It did not happen quite like this. Carr’s contemporaries were successful in keeping her name and her reputation before the Canadian public, apparently defying the wheel of…
The Permeable Border
How leading U.S. philanthropists helpedestablish Canadian culture December 2006
When most of us think about America’s contribution to Canadian culture during the years before World War II, we think of church organs and public libraries. Yet in Rockefeller, Carnegie and Canada: American Philanthropy and the Arts and Letters in Canada, Jeffrey Brison shows us that American philanthropy functioned on a much broader…