The Life and Art of George Fertig (First Edition)

Fertig, Mona

ISBN 10: 1896949061 / ISBN 13: 9781896949062

Published by Mother Tongue, Salt Spring Island, BC, 2010

About this Item

Cover with flaps. One pencil line beside a paragraph. Of The Unheralded Artists of BC series. 174 pages with index and colour photos of Fertigs paintings.

Seller Inventory # 22842

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Life and Art of George Fertig (First Edition)
• Publisher: Mother Tongue, Salt Spring Island, BC
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1896949061
• ISBN 13: 9781896949062
• Binding: Trade Paperback Original
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine Plus.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art - British Columbia

About this title

Synopsis

George Fertig was a Jungian, a socialist, a symbolist and an outsider. For 40 years he struggled to survive as as artist in Vancouver, British Columbia. Part biography and part memoir, as told by his eldest daughter, this book includes fourteen years of research, interviews, letters and over one hundred and fifty rare photographs. Born in Alberta in 1915 George Fertig's creative passion began at age twenty with photography during the Depression and World War II. He lived in Fruitvale BC and was a member of the infamous Trail Mine Mill Union in the '30s. George Fertig's unique oil paintings have found no duplication in Canada. They range from early landscapes, to large powerful archetypal images and small numinous meditations on eternity.

About the Author

Mona Fertig is a poet, publisher, and book artist. She opened the Literary Storefront in Gastown in 1978 and has been deeply involved in BC's literary scene for 4 decades. Her many books include: The Unsettled, Sex Death & Travel, Labour of Love. She runs Mother Tongue Publishing on Salt Spring Island, BC.