Maxwell Bates
Biography of an Artist

Kathleen M. Snow

ISBN 189517645X
$350.00 limited edition hardcover
10.5 x 8 in.
November 1993

xviii + 278 pages
40 colour photos, 39 b/w photos, biblio., index
lino-block print, 3 notebook drawings, handbound in goatskin

See also Maxwell Bates: Artist, Architect & Writer: A Virtual Exhibition.


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About the Book

"Snow has written the definitive text on one of Western Canada's best-loved artists (with a superb bibliography and index) and it is extensively illustrated. This is a very readable contribution to our art history and I recommend it." Robert Amos, Victoria Times-Colonist
This is the first major study of Maxwell Bates, a western Canadian artist and architect who is now recognized as one of the major figurative artists in Canada. This book confirms the power and influence of his work. Kathleen Snow has used Bates's notes and journals as well as memories and observations of his colleagues and friends to record his career as an artist, architect, and poet. The author and her husband, artist John Snow, enjoyed a long friendship with Maxwell Bates. The biography will become the standard reference on this reticent, driven artist who is best known for his evocative, sometimes haunting, depictions of the human figure.

Seventy-eight reproductions, of which forty are colour plates, illustrate the range of Maxwell Bates's work. This book includes an extensive index and a chronology of Bates's life and a list of exhibitions.


About the Author

The late Kathleen Snow was a librarian and later a professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Calgary.

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Table of Contents

  1. Early Years in Calgary, 1906-31
  2. London, 1931-40
  3. Prisoner of War in Germany, 1940-45
  4. Return to Calgary, 1946-49
  5. New York, Calgary, 1950-54
  6. Art and Architecture in Calgary, 1954-56
  7. At Home and Abroad, 1957-59
  8. Final Years in Calgary, 1959-61
  9. Illness and Move to Victoria, 1961-63
  10. Full-time Artist, 1963-66
  11. More Productive Years, 1967-72
  12. Final Years in Victoria, 1973-80
  13. Epilogue


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