A Compendium of Canadian Folk Artists

Dean Tudor is a journalism professor at the Ryerson Polytechnical
Institute and founding editor of the CBRA.

This is a biographical dictionary to some 500 folk artists spread over about 300 years in Canada. It is extremely useful for libraries, especially since it includes some rare and unique biographical details that are generally hard to find elsewhere. Each entry has name, life dates, place of work, medium, a paragraph or more on the artist’s work, source references (articles, exhibitions, interviews), and collection notes of museums, libraries, galleries, archives, and so forth where the artist’s work can be found.

The authors, of course, have extensive files about Canadian folk artists; they have published at least four other books dealing with folk art in Canada and Ontario, and they also promise to update this biographical tool in the years ahead. As an added bonus, there are black-and-white illustrations throughout.