Arthur Lismer, well-known member of the Group of Seven, was also one of Canada's most innovative educators. Using previously untapped correspondence and papers as well as interviews with Lismer's teaching colleagues, child students, and art students, Angela Nairne Grigor examines Lismer's Arts and Crafts Movement background in his native England, the evolution of the humanistic ideas and ideals that guided his work as both an artist and a teacher, and his international influence as an educator. She gives a vivid portrait of his approach to teaching in an illustrious fifty-year career that took him from Toronto to Halifax, Montreal, New York, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, and during which he played a pivotal role in the development of some of Canada's most important art schools and museums.
Lismer pioneered new progressive ideas in art education through his work with children as educational supervisor at the Art Gallery of Toronto and, later, at Montreal's Museum of Fine Arts. In exploring Lismer's development as an educator, Grigor traces the history of art education in twentieth-century Canada and charts changing attitudes towards children and art. Lismer emerges as an artist with a social conscience who captured the hearts and minds of the thousands who heard him speak or were fortunate enough to have been his students. Arthur Lismer, Visionary Art Educator includes over a dozen drawings from Lismer's teaching and lecture notes that have not been previously published.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-439) and index
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Tables 10
- Preface 12
- Abbreviations 18
- Introduction 20
- PART ONE: A LIFE IN ART 22
- 1 The Early Years: Sheffield, 1885–1911 24
- 2 "The First Step on the Ladder": Toronto, 1911–1916 37
- 3 The Victoria School of Art and Design, Halifax, 1916–1919 50
- 4 Toronto, 1919–1927 62
- 5 The Art Gallery of Toronto, 1927–1938 99
- 6 Educational Touring, 1936–1940 150
- 7 Montreal, 1940–1969 186
- Epilogue 234
- PART TWO: ARTHUR LISMER'S IDEAS IN EDUCATION 236
- 8 Lismer's Education in Art, 1890–1905 238
- 9 The Ontario Teachers Summer Courses in Art, 1915–1916 251
- 10 Lismer's Early Philosophy of Education, 1916–1919 254
- 11 Lismer's Development as an Educator, 1919–1927 265
- 12 Museum Education, 1927–1938 296
- 13 Educator in Transition, 1936–1940 322
- 14 Lismer's Mature Pedagogy in the Field of Art Education, 1940–1969 338
- Conclusion 364
- Appendix: A Chronology of Arthur Lismer's Life 368
- Notes 374
- Bibliography 438
- Credits for Drawings Used at Beginning and End of Chapters 458
- Index 460
- A 460
- B 460
- C 461
- D 461
- E 461
- F 461
- G 461
- H 461
- J 462
- K 462
- L 462
- M 462
- N 462
- O 463
- P 463
- R 463
- S 463
- T 463
- U 464
- V 464
- W 464
