Art for War and Peace

How a Great Public Art Project Helped Canada Discover Itself

Published by Read Leaf
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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About The Book

The largest public art project in Canadian history, the Sampson Matthews print program began as wartime propaganda and lasted into the 1960s. The bright silkscreens hung in every school, library, bank and dentist’s office from Whitehorse to St. John’s, shaping Canadians’ ideas about art—and their vast homeland.Art for War and Peace tells the remarkable story of the prints, with full-colour reproductions of more than a hundred silkscreens and contributions from several art writers, including Douglas Coupland

About The Author

Ian Sigvaldason is the owner of the Pegasus Gallery of Canadian Art on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia; he has been mesmerized by the Sampson-Matthews prints for many years

Product Details

  • Publisher: Read Leaf (August 3, 2022)
  • Length: 240 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781927018804

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