Brian Foss
Author
Brian Foss is Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus, and Distinguished Research Professor, Art and Architectural History at Carleton University in Ottawa. A specialist in the visual arts in Canada from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the present, he co-edited The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2010) and has curated or co-curated such exhibitions as Quiet Harmony: The Art of Mary Hiester Reid (Art Gallery of Ontario, 2000), Edwin Holgate (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2005), and 1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group (MMFA, 2016). His previous online art book for the Art Canada Institute is Homer Watson: Life & Work (2019). His monograph War Paint: Art, War, State and Identity in Britain 1939–1945 (Yale University Press, 2007) was shortlisted for the William M.B. Berger Prize for British Art History.
Online Art Books
Essays
Why Homer Watson was at odds with the Group of Seven
By Brian FossWhy Homer Watson was at odds with the Group of Seven
By Brian FossSpotlights
How Reid's idyllic painting The Story cemented his reputation.
By Brian Foss
Homer Watson creates a mystic landscape in Moonlit Stream, 1933
By Brian Foss
In A Coming Storm in the Adirondacks, 1879, Homer Watson enters the American landscape
By Brian Foss
Homer Watson’s studio frieze, 1893–1894, catalogues the artists he most admired
By Brian Foss
When British royalty took notice of Homer Watson’s The Pioneer Mill, 1880, it launched his career with a subject that hit close to home
By Brian FossHow Reid's idyllic painting The Story cemented his reputation.
By Brian FossHomer Watson creates a mystic landscape in Moonlit Stream, 1933
By Brian FossIn A Coming Storm in the Adirondacks, 1879, Homer Watson enters the American landscape
By Brian FossHomer Watson’s studio frieze, 1893–1894, catalogues the artists he most admired
By Brian FossWhen British royalty took notice of Homer Watson’s The Pioneer Mill, 1880, it launched his career with a subject that hit close to home
By Brian Foss