Bertram Richard Brooker (March 31, 1888 – March 21, 1955)[1] was a Canadian abstract painter.[2] A self-taught polymath (the first in Canadian art),[3] in addition to being a visual artist, Brooker was a Governor General's Award-winning novelist, as well as a poet, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, copywriter, graphic designer, and advertising executive.[4] A key part of the art community in Toronto, he is considered one of its "most gifted first responders".[5]
^Obituary, Globe and Mail, March 22, 1955
^Joan Murray. Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century. Dundurn; November 1999. ISBN 978-1-55002-332-9. p. 40-41.
^"Lecture by Michael Parke-Taylor, Abstraction and Realism: The Versatile Genius of Bertram Brooker". mcmichael.com. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, March 13, 2024. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
^King, James (2018). Bertram Brooker: Life & Work. Toronto: Art Canada Institute. ISBN 978-1-4871-0177-0.
Bertram Richard Brooker (March 31, 1888 – March 21, 1955) was a Canadian abstract painter. A self-taught polymath (the first in Canadian art), in addition...
Abel (London: Routledge, 2005), 679; and Adam Lauder, “It’s Alive!: BertramBrooker and Vitalism,” in The Logic of Nature, the Romance of Space: Elements...
painter who was a pioneer of modernism, along with Kathleen Munn and BertramBrooker. Warrener was inspired to begin painting when he met Arthur Lismer...
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Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba. Manitoba has a strong literary tradition. BertramBrooker won the first-ever Governor General's Award for Fiction in 1936. Cartoonist...
Award. His edited volumes include: Sounds Assembling: The Poetry of BertramBrooker (Turnstone Press, 1980); Trace: Prairie Writers on Writing (Turnstone...
Abel (London: Routledge, 2005), 679; and Adam Lauder, “It’s Alive!: BertramBrooker and Vitalism,” in The Logic of Nature, the Romance of Space: Elements...
of the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction 1930s BertramBrooker, Think of the Earth (1936) Laura Salverson, The Dark Weaver (1937)...
Bacon Hilaire Belloc Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Bonaventure E. A. Bott BertramBrooker Richard Maurice Bucke Edmund Snow Carpenter G. K. Chesterton Marcel...
themselves, such as A. Y. Jackson, or Lawren Harris. J. E. H. MacDonald and BertramBrooker even contributed their poetry. The Forum prided itself on reproducing...
Group of Seven and other artists." In 1927 it hosted a show of work by BertramBrooker that was the first solo exhibition of abstract art in Canada. In the...
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and the Canadian prairies. Authors associated with Turnstone include BertramBrooker, Miriam Waddington, John Gould, Lawrence Hill, Robert Kroetsch, Sylvia...
essayist The History of Emily Montague BertramBrooker 1888 1955 novelist, artist Think of the Earth Carellin Brooks novelist, non-fiction One Hundred Days...
featured works by Canadian and American contemporaries of Harris' such as BertramBrooker, Emily Carr, Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe...
post-secondary courses. CJBP-FM 97.1 NAC TV channel 30 Gordon Beard, politician BertramBrooker, award-winning novelist Shawn Byram, former professional hockey player...
After Carmichael's ventures to Lake Superior in the mid-to-late 1920s, BertramBrooker and other friends recognized the spiritual dimensions of his work....
artist Joyce Anderson, painter and art teacher Eleanor Bond, painter BertramBrooker, abstract painter Sheila Butler, contemporary artist Charles Comfort...
of the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction 1930s BertramBrooker, Think of the Earth (1936) Laura Salverson, The Dark Weaver (1937)...
important part of national identity. In the 1920s, Kathleen Munn, BertramBrooker and Lowrie Warrener independently experimented with abstract or non-objective...
graduation, Atkins worked at Brigden's commercial art firm, where he met BertramBrooker and Charles Comfort. Atkins later became friends with Fritz Brandtner...
of the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction 1930s BertramBrooker, Think of the Earth (1936) Laura Salverson, The Dark Weaver (1937)...
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