Painter Christopher Pratt is one of Canada's most prominent
painters and printmakers, a reputation that has solidified since
the celebrated retrospective of his work at the National Gallery of
Canada in 2005. The intense realism of his work is, at first
glance, deceptively simple; but behind the recognizable images lie
deeper meanings. Pratt's search for reality that is magical and
mysterious gives these paintings their uncanny and haunting
qualities. Ever since the day in the mid-1950s when Pratt first saw
the painting Early Sunday Morning by the renowned American realist,
Edward Hopper, he has perfected his ability to represent the
qualities of natural and artificial light, which figure so
prominently in his paintings and prints. Pratt stands in the line
of other great Canadian artists including Alex Colville, Lawren P.
Harris, Jean Paul Lemieux, and Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald, all of
whom influenced him and the way he represents the land. Others who
figured in his development as an artist include Americans Charles
Sheeler, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper and Thomas Eakins. The unique
and beautiful island of Newfoundland, its culture, history,
geography and its weather have also influenced his work. This book
traces Pratt's development as a painter and printmaker from his
first early watercolors in 1952 through to his iconic paintings of
his mature years. It features more than 100 works, many of which
have never been reproduced before. Christopher Pratt was born in
1935 in St. John's Newfoundland and studied art at the Glasgow
School of Art and Mount Allison University, in Sackville, New
Brunswick. Universally acknowledged as one of the most important
Canadian artists of the period, his work is included in the
permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the
Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the McMichael
Canadian Art Collection, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the Musee
d'Art Contemporain of Montreal, Memorial University of
Newfoundland, as well as private and corporate collections in North
America and around the world. He is represented by the Mira Godard
Gallery in Toronto. Pratt lives and works in the village of St.
Mary's Bay on the Salmonier River in Newfoundland. Over the years
Pratt has exhibited both nationally and internationally, with
exhibitions in New York (1976), at Canada House Cultural Centre
Gallery in London that travelled to Paris, Brussels and Dublin from
1982-83, and the 49th Parallel Gallery in New York in 1988.
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