Iris Nowell’s Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art traces the formation, activities, and eventual dissolution of the Toronto-based group of eleven abstract artists, active from 1953 to 1960. The members were Jack Bush, Oscar Cahén, Hortense Gordon, Tom Hodgson, Alexandra Luke, Jock Macdonald, Ray Mead, Kazuo Nakamura, William Ronald, Harold Town, and Walter Yarwood. Drawing on interviews with family members, associates, and figures in the art world, alongside archival material and personal recollections, Nowell examines the artists’ individual backgrounds, working lives, and relationships within the group. The book includes colour reproductions of their work, documenting their artistic development and the emergence of abstraction in postwar Canadian art.
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