Invention & Revival
The Colour Drypoints of David Milne and John Hartman
David Milne’s invention of the multiple-plate colour drypoint led to gorgeous painterly prints. Milne specialist Rosemarie Tovell draws connections between this work and John Hartman’s contemporary drypoint prints. Adopting Milne’s technique, Hartman gives delicate colourful depictions of the places and people of Canada, particularly of northern Ontario, where he lives. Diana Nemiroff, Director of Carlton University Art Gallery, notes in her foreword that both artists seek to reconcile “their allegiances to contemporary aesthetics with their choice of a traditional subject, landscape”.
Essays by Rosemarie Tovell, Anne-Marie Ninacs. Interview with John Hartman and David Milne Jr. by Diana Nemiroff. Sandra Dyck editor.
Published by Carlton University Art Gallery, 2008.
Hardcover, 26.5 x 20.5 x 1.7 cm; 40 colour plates; 145 pages
ISBN 978-0-7709-0526-2Available from Nicholas Metivier Gallery and online sources.
Cities
John Hartman
Cities, the driving forces behind the economic and cultural engines of a country, are very much on the minds of Canadians in the first decade of the 21st century. The paintings of John Hartman, one of Canada’s major contemporary painters, offer an artistic vision of cities as living organisms, deeply intertwined with the natural terrain of a geographic site. The book features Hartman’s city paintings, including New York, London, Toronto, Halifax, Vancouver and Hamilton. As well as numerous colour plates, a series of black and white photographs show his studio process, working with watercolours, pastels and oils.
With texts by Dennis Reid, Noah Richler and Stuart Reid. Design by Barr Gilmore. Winner of 2007 OAAG Award for Best Book Design
Published by Altitude, Canmore, Alberta, 2006
Hardcover: 26.9 x 26.2 x 1.8 cm; 40 colour plates
ISBN 1-55153-312-XAvailable from Nicholas Metivier Gallery and online sources.
Big North
The Paintings of John Hartman
Big North: The Paintings of John Hartman catalogues a major exhibition of John Hartman’s works. Organized by the London Regional Art and Historical Museum and the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, the exhibition traveled throughout Canada from 1999 to 2001. Filled with colour reproductions of Hartman’s grand scale paintings, the book offers an in-depth visual exploration of this artist’s work. An essay by writer Matthew Hart and notes by John Hartman accompany the works.
Published by Key Porter Books, Toronto, 1999
Hardcover: 29 x 24 x 1.5 cm; 32 Colour plates; 6 Colour plate fold-outs
ISBN 1-55263-136-2Available from online sources.
With Minimal Means
John Hartman Prints 1985-1995
Catalogue of a survey exhibition of John Hartman’s prints presented originally November to December 1995 at the McMaster Museum of Art (McMaster Art Gallery). The exhibition went on to tour a number of other galleries. This book contains a complete catalogue of Hartman’s prints from 1984 to 1995. With text by Kim Gibson Ness.
Published by McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, 1995
75 pages; Colour and black and white plates
ISBN 0-920603-05-XAvailable from online sources.
Painting the Bay
Recent Work by John Hartman
This catalogue accompanied an exhibition of John Hartman’s work, at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, October 1993 to January 1994. Includes text by Jean Blodgett and Jeffrey Spalding.
Published by McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1993
Softcover: 13.5 x 10.25 inches; 20 colour plates
ISBN 0-7778-1761-6
Georgian Bay
Drawings by John Hartman
Hartman’s succinct written notations punctuate reproductions of his notebook-like drawings, offering insight into this artist’s fascination with and attachment to the Georgian Bay landscape. This book is, in scale and binding, very like a sketchbook, one full of thoughts and images about and on the landscape that is this artist’s life. In his introduction, John Hartman describes the style of these drawings as a minimal notation describing features of the landscape developed in order to “allow [...] the relationship between the island forms and the white paper to remain undisturbed.”
Published by Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ontario, 1989
Softcover; 43 reproductions of india ink drawings; 11 x 15 inches
ISBN 0-921149-45-XAvailable from online sources.