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Let It Be Clear: The Art of Anne Dunn<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n 114 pages, full color, 8.5 x 11 in.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n ISBN 978-1-927054-49-9 C$39.99 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Anne Dunn is an <\/span>\u00e9minence grise<\/span><\/i> of the British-Canadian art world. The daughter of Industrialist Sir James Dunn and his actress wife Irene Clarice Richards, Dunn came of age in post-war England where she attended the Chelsea School of Art, studying under Graham Sutherland and Henry Moore, then at the Anglo-French Art Centre in London with Fernand L\u00e9ger. Later she attended the Acad\u00e9mie Julien in Paris. In a career spanning sixty years, she has exhibited her work in major galleries in England, France, the US, and Canada. Her life and career intersect with luminaries of twentieth century art, including Lucien Freud and Francis Bacon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Alongside her glamorous British-European life, she has retained close ties to New Brunswick. Until recently she would return annually to her family cottage near Bathurst, where she has produced a great deal of her work. She has said that her favourite part of living in New Brunswick is \u201cAn active state of being. Magic as a possibility.\u201d A versatile, meticulous painter, she works in both oil and watercolour. Her subject matter encompasses still life, figures, landscape, flowers, and interiors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Let It Be Clear: The Art of Anne Dunn <\/span><\/i>includes over forty reproductions of Dunn\u2019s works, photographs of her life, an in-depth interview conducted by St. Thomas University art students, and essays by an appropriately international set of art experts: Virgil Hammock, Richard Shone, Tanya Harrod, and Nathan Kernan.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThese somewhat mysterious drawings project an air that is both sensuous and ascetic.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u2013John Ashbury, <\/span>New York Magazine<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAttention is key \u2013 her deep attention to the motif as it is defined and transformed through the medium. There are no false notes or facile effects. Imagery is hard won, even or especially when it appears to arise out of fluid improvisation.\u201d \u2013Nathan Kernan<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let It Be Clear: The Art of Anne Dunn 114 pages, full color, 8.5 x 11 in.\u00a0 ISBN 978-1-927054-49-9 C$39.99 2021 Anne Dunn is an \u00e9minence grise of the British-Canadian art world. The daughter of Industrialist Sir James Dunn and his actress wife Irene Clarice Richards, Dunn came of age in post-war England where… <\/p>\n