Stormy Weather : F. H. Varley, a Biography

by TIPPETT, MARIA

• ISBN13: 9780771085239
• ISBN10: 0771085230
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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Summary

Frederick Horsman Varley was a binge drinker, womanizer, and spendthrift. He was also a charter member of Canada's most famous band of painters, the Group of Seven, and in his own right, one of Canada's finest and most inventive artists. He is best known for the landscape paintings, but his work, taken as a whole, is far from typical of the Group of Seven's output, and his tempest-tossed life gives quite a different meaning to the title of his signature painting, Stormy Weather. This is the first authoritative biography of Varley, written in a lively fashion and based on a wealth of original research.

Author Biography

Maria Tippett, teacher, cultural historian, curator, and writer, is a Senior Research Fellow and Tutor at Churchill College, Cambridge University, England

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Pride of Ancestry	p. 1
Venturing Forth	p. 25
The New World	p. 55
War Artist	p. 83
Varley and the Group of Seven	p. 113
Paradise Found	p. 149
Things Fall Apart	p. 179
Paradise Lost	p. 213
The Grand Old Man	p. 251
The Varley Family Tree	p. 281
Notes	p. 282
List of Illustrations	p. 332
Index	p. 338
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