TOUT CANADIEN DOIT COMBATTRE
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Title
TOUT CANADIEN
DOIT COMBATTRE
DOIT COMBATTRE
Description
Artist: Surrey, Philip Henry Howard
Director of Public Information
Minister of National War Services
Philip Surrey, a founding member of the Contemporary Arts Society, was a figurative painter with an enduring interest in human subjects within urban nightscapes. For most of his career, Surrey used Montreal as his stage, arranging lighting and figures - most often pedestrians - in compositions that revealed both the gregarious nature and the solitude of humanity. A friend and student of Frederick Varley, Surrey was also closely tied to many of the most important Montreal artists and writers of the 1930s and 1940s.
Director of Public Information
Minister of National War Services
Philip Surrey, a founding member of the Contemporary Arts Society, was a figurative painter with an enduring interest in human subjects within urban nightscapes. For most of his career, Surrey used Montreal as his stage, arranging lighting and figures - most often pedestrians - in compositions that revealed both the gregarious nature and the solitude of humanity. A friend and student of Frederick Varley, Surrey was also closely tied to many of the most important Montreal artists and writers of the 1930s and 1940s.
Date
Medium
Language
French
translation of
Every Canadian
Must Fight
Must Fight
Extent
76.2 x 53.3 cm (30 x 21 in.)