For the love of Leonard Sep 20, 2008
Lying on a leather bench was an oversized book called Love Where the Nights are Long: An Anthology of Canadian Poems, edited by Irving Layton and graced with quite shockingly representational drawings by famous Canadian artist Harold Town. Related Articles. (Globe and Mail)
Tom Thomson tops rich day Nov 22, 2006
"The reason the Thomson did so well now is because there are so few of his works still around to buy," said Sotheby's president David Silcox, a Thomson scholar who co-authored the book Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm with the late artist Harold Town in 1977. "Besides, it is a great painting.". (Toronto Star -- Arts)
The market is strong Nov 21, 2006
Large abstract and semi-abstract canvases by Harold Town, Alexandra Luke and Hortense Gordon all exceeded estimates. Ken Lochhead's bold abstract AC-33 was expected to command $9,000, but sold for $12,000; Kazuo Nakamura's subtle Core Suspension was predicted to attract bids of around $12,000, but sold for four times that -- $48,000. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Artist part of the golden age of Canadian comic books Aug 29, 2006
The group included painter Harold Town and Leo Bachle, creator of Johnny Canuck. The Canadian Whites got their name because they were printed on white paper with black ink, since coloured ink was rationed. (Toronto Star -- GTA)
Found: the 'missing masterpiece' May 25, 2006
Silcox thinks Milne's relatively modest sales record is due in part to the artist's lack of "big paintings. They're meant to be seen intimately, privately, in a small room." Moreover, there's a pronounced "monkish quality to his rhetoric. . . . His flower paintings of the 1940s are quite luscious, but by and large his work is quite austere. He pared things down. As Harold Town once said, he was the master of absence: He can leave out more than any other artist and still keep the centrality of... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Tom Hodgson's abstract objective Mar 8, 2006
Harold Town dressed, in the 1950s, like an Edwardian fop. Hortense Gordon, at 67 the oldest, wore hats from the 1930s that made her look like the retired Hamilton schoolteacher she was. (National Post)
