Joan Arden Charlat Murray

Canadian writer, independent curator and art historian.
Her curatorial projects are wide-ranging and cover a wide spectrum of the visual arts in Canada: contemporary, modern, historical, regional, national and interdisciplinary: she has a special interest in Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven, abstraction and women artists. This site demonstrates her books, catalogues and articles.
Former Gallery curator and director, worked with institutions such as the Art Gallery of Ontario (1968–1973), the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa (1974–1999) and the McMichael Canadian Art Gallery in Kleinburg (2005–2006).

Tom Thomson (1994)

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Northern Lights (1994) →

Tom Thomson: The Last Spring (1994)

Here Murray focuses on a small selection of Thomson’s works and examines them in the light of Thomson’s biography and art history of the period.

Tom Thomson: The Last Spring (1994)

Tom Thomson