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category: Biography & Autobiography
published: Oct 2013
ISBN:9781771510196
publisher: TouchWood Editions

Harold Mortimer Lamb

The Art Lover

by Robert Amos

tagged: artists, architects, photographers, canadian
Description

Harold Mortimer-Lamb’s name is in the index of almost every book written on the history of Canadian art, yet his place in that world has never been clear. Photographer, writer, painter, promoter—he was a man of many parts and the ideal patron and friend to some of Canada's most famous artists, including A.Y. Jackson, Emily Carr, and Jack Shadbolt. At the centre of his story are his relationships with painter Frederick Varley and young student Vera Weatherbie, whom Mortimer-Lamb, at the age of seventy, eventually married, when she was just thirty. Profusely illustrated with his photos, paintings, and the art he collected, Harold Mortimer-Lamb: The Art Lover brings into focus an unknown chapter in Canadian art history.

About the Author
Robert Amos is an artist and writer living in Victoria, British Columbia. His happiest childhood memories were formed at his family’s summer cottage in Muskoka, north of Toronto, a property purchased by his grandfather in 1929. Since moving west in 1975, Amos has focused on the local scene, and eight books of his art and writing have been published. Since 1986 he has been art writer for the Victoria Times Colonist newspaper.

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