Harold Town
Canadian, 1924 - 1990King’s Screen, 1966
Not on view
Oil and Lucite on canvas
Dimensions52 × 52 in. (132.1 × 132.1 cm)
Gift of Dr. David R. Limbach, 1971.46
Harold Town is best known as a member of the Painters Eleven--a group of Canadian abstract artists active in Toronto from 1954 to 1960. Town coined the name of the group, which was based on the number of artists present at the first meeting. This group of artists helped to introduce Canadians to abstract art in the 1950s.
Town was trained at Central Technical School and Ontario College of Art, both in Toronto. Influenced by the work of Pablo Picasso and Willem de Kooning, and as well, Asian art at the Royal Ontario Museum, he represented Canadaat the 1956 and 1964 Venice Biennale.
