Harold Barling Town
Empty Burden 1961 - 1
Snap #85 (#1917), 1974 - 2
Snap #82 (3123) - 3
Snap (#3125) 1974 - 4
Snap #52, 1973 (3236) - 5
Untitled (#3007) - 6
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Untitled (1871) - 8
Untitled (1868) - 9
Untitled, snap series (#2404), ca 1972-3 - 10
Snap #20 (#3185), 1972-3 - 11
Snap #6, (#4682), 1972-3 - 12
Empty Burden - 13
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Contest In White - 15
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Detroit, 1968 (1957) - 17
Toy Horse #52, Mar 1978 invent#8081
Toy Horse #147 Apr 7/8, 1979 Invt#8091
Toy Horse, 1976, Inventory #264
Toy Horse #271, Nov 19/23, 1982 Invt#8049
Toy Horse #69, June 16,17,18, 1982, invent#2597
Untitled (Toy Horse), Nov 21-22, 1976 Invent. #2021
Toy Horse #187, 11- 4, 1982, invent. #2832
Impermanent Toys (#8640), ca. 1956
Last Fall (#6122), 1956
Untitled (#12288), 1958
Focus (#7774), 1957
Boswell's Night (#7899), 1958
Untitled (#7903), 1955
Untitled (green, pink) 12098
The Important Circle (no. 12036), ca. 1956
Untitled (green, red) 8971
Untitled (pink, orange, yellow) 8972
Untitled, 1954 (8989)
Untitled (Black and Grey) no.11056, ca. 1956
Untitled (Red, Black Drawing) 12048
SAP (Yellow Mask) 1955
Racing White (no.12055), 1951
Rectangular Departure (no.2695), 1954
SAP (White Wand) 1957
Untitled (Green) no. 12018, ca. 1956
ToyHorse (10073)
Toy Horse #157 (12178)
Toy Horse (2545)
Cook Lady, 1971 (2122)
Untitled, French Postcard (2423)
Model from 1945, artist pose book (#2165), June 23, 1985
Woman in photo from sun bathing magazine (#2270), June 23, 1985
Model from Oscar's Drawing book (#2271), June 29, 1985
Vale Variation No.7
Vale Variation No.4
Vale Variation No.5
Vale Variation No.6
Vale Variation No.1
Vale Variation No.3
Vale Variation No.2
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Harold Barling Town
1924 - 1990
OC, RCA
1924 - 1990
Price range: $1500-$110,000
Harold Town (1924-1990 Peterborough, Ontario) was one of Canada ’s most prolific and versatile artists. His vast body of work comprises paintings, etchings, lithographs, collages, drawings and works in other media.
During his lifetime, his work was shown at major galleries and international exhibitions in North and South America and in Europe.
He was a founding member of Painters Eleven, the name of the group which was based simply on the number of artists that were present the first meeting. This group of artists helped to introduce Canadians to abstract art in the 1950’s.
Throughout his career he remained a focus of controversy for his original artwork, flamboyant public persona and outspoken opinions.
Town was trained at Central Technical School and Ontario College of Art, both in Toronto. Influenced by the work of Pablo Picasso and Willem de Kooning, and as well, Asian art at the Royal Ontario Museum, he developed a collage technique that was acclaimed and Town represented Canada at the Venice Biennale in 1956 and 1964 and at the São Paolo Bienal in 1957 and 1961.
Known as an "unpredictable" painter, Town's work moved quickly from a dark expressionist style to abstraction which contrasted vivid colours. In the 1960s, Town developed a style of prints which he called "Single Autograph Prints", a phrase he never explained. These monotype prints were colourful and delicate, winning Town awards in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia and Santiago, Chile, were the prints were acquired by the Solomon Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Alfred Barr the director of MoMA at the time called Town "one of the world's greatest printmakers."