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Book Description: University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, 2001. Paperback. Book Condition: Near Fine. 1st Ed. 4to. 222 pp. Exhibition catalogue with 40 illustrations in colour and numerous in b/w. First president of the University of Toronto, and one of the world's first professional anthropologists, the ambidextrous Wilson was also a dab hand at watercolours, having once worked with J. M. W. Turner. Bookseller Inventory # 022083

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Book Description: University of Toronto Art Centre., Toronto, Canada, 2001. Softcover. Book Condition: Fine. 4to - 29 x 20 cm.; 222 pp. An exhibition catalogue featuring 40 colour plus a number of b/w photos of Wilson's watercolours, many painted on his annual summer canoe trips into the Canadian wilderness. Wilson was the University of Toronto's first president and a man of many talents - engraving, anthropology, history, poetry, literary criticism, plus he could paint with either hand. This catalogue is extensive and includes the following articles: Daniel Wilson: A Biographical Introduction by Elizabeth Hulse; "In Some Form, My Life-Pursuit": Daniel Wilson as Artist by Robert Stacey; Daniel Wilson on J.M.W. Turner; Daniel Wilson on Paul Kane; On the Many Sketches of Toronto Blockhouses by Stephen A. Otto. Also a chronology, references, index. A new, unused copy. Bookseller Inventory # 21580

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