Overview

The largest public art project in Canadian history, the Sampson-Matthews print program began as wartime propaganda and lasted into the 1960s. The bright silkscreens hung in every school, library, bank and dentist's office from Whitehorse to St. John's, shaping Canadians' ideas about art - and their vast homeland. Art for War and Peace tells the remarkable story of the prints, with full-colour reproductions of more than a hundred silkscreens and contributions from several art writers, including Douglas Coupland.

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This is a gorgeous book. Stephen Quinn, Host of CBC Radio's On the Coast Ian Sigvaldason and Scott Steedman's Art for War and Peace: How A Great Art Project Helped Canada Discover Itself uncovers an important chapter in the adolescent years of Canadian identity, detailing how these landscapes -- mostly of the Canadian Shield and painted mainly by Toronto urbanites -- came to be imprinted on our national DNA. In gorgeous, full-colour reproduction and stuffed with supplementary material such as sales catalogues, pages about framing options, and decals with care instructions ( Should the surface become soiled it may readily be cleaned by sponging with soap and water ), the book is an expertly collected document of the early efforts made by a young, spirited country desperate to define itself. Toronto Star, Chris Hampton

This is a gorgeous book. Stephen Quinn, Host of CBC Radio's On the Coast Ian Sigvaldason and Scott Steedman's Art for War and Peace: How A Great Art Project Helped Canada Discover Itself uncovers an important chapter in the adolescent years of Canadian identity, detailing how these landscapes -- mostly of the Canadian Shield and painted mainly by Toronto urbanites -- came to be imprinted on our national DNA. In gorgeous, full-colour reproduction and stuffed with supplementary material such as sales catalogues, pages about framing options, and decals with care instructions ( Should the surface become soiled it may readily be cleaned by sponging with soap and water ), the book is an expertly collected document of the early efforts made by a young, spirited country desperate to define itself. Toronto Star, Chris Hampton This is a gorgeous book. Stephen Quinn, Host of CBC Radio's On the Coast Ian Sigvaldason and Scott Steedman s Art for War and Peace: How A Great Art Project Helped Canada Discover Itself uncovers an important chapter in the adolescent years of Canadian identity, detailing how these landscapes mostly of the Canadian Shield and painted mainly by Toronto urbanites came to be imprinted on our national DNA. In gorgeous, full-colour reproduction and stuffed with supplementary material such as sales catalogues, pages about framing options, and decals with care instructions ( Should the surface become soiled it may readily be cleaned by sponging with soap and water ), the book is an expertly collected document of the early efforts made by a young, spirited country desperate to define itself. Toronto Star, Chris Hampton

""Ian Sigvaldason and Scott Steedman's Art for War and Peace: How A Great Art Project Helped Canada Discover Itself uncovers an important chapter in the adolescent years of Canadian identity, detailing how these landscapes -- mostly of the Canadian Shield and painted mainly by Toronto urbanites -- came to be imprinted on our national DNA. In gorgeous, full-colour reproduction and stuffed with supplementary material such as sales catalogues, pages about framing options, and decals with care instructions (""Should the surface become soiled it may readily be cleaned by sponging with soap and water""), the book is an expertly collected document of the early efforts made by a young, spirited country desperate to define itself."" Toronto Star, Chris Hampton ""This is a gorgeous book."" Stephen Quinn, Host of CBC Radio's On the Coast

Ian Sigvaldason and Scott Steedman s Art for War and Peace: How A Great Art Project Helped Canada Discover Itself uncovers an important chapter in the adolescent years of Canadian identity, detailing how these landscapes mostly of the Canadian Shield and painted mainly by Toronto urbanites came to be imprinted on our national DNA. In gorgeous, full-colour reproduction and stuffed with supplementary material such as sales catalogues, pages about framing options, and decals with care instructions ( Should the surface become soiled it may readily be cleaned by sponging with soap and water ), the book is an expertly collected document of the early efforts made by a young, spirited country desperate to define itself. Toronto Star, Chris Hampton

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Ian Sigvaldason is the owner of the Pegasus Gallery of Canadian Art on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia; he has been mesmerized by the Sampson-Matthews prints for many years, and curates the website sampsonmatthewsprints.com. Scott Steedman is an editor, writer and publishing consultant, and an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. He co-edited Visions of British Columbia, winner of the 2010 City of Vancouver Book Award.

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