John Russell Harper

John Russell Harper

John Russell Harper (April 13, 1914 – November 17, 1983) was an eminent Canadian art historian who is considered to have pioneered the field of art history in Canada.

Harper was born at Caledonia, Ontario coord|43|4|26|N|79|57|7|W|. he worked for some time as a primary school teacher before studying at the Ontario School of Art from 1938 to 1940. During World War II he served, alongside his future wife Mary Elizabeth Goodchild, as a radar mechanic for the Royal Canadian Air Force in Canada and England. After the war, he enrolled at the University of Toronto and received a B.A. in 1948 and an M.A. in 1950 in art and archeology.

In the 1950s, he became the chief cataloguer of the Royal Ontario Museum, and in 1951, he moved to Saint John, New Brunswick, to work for the New Brunswick Museum.

After archaeological fieldwork for the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, he reported in 1959 on the potential for restoration of the fortress at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia.

From 1959 to 1963, he was the curator of Canadian art at the National Gallery of Canada, and from 1965 to 1968 the chief curator of the McCord Museum of McGill University. From 1965 until his retirement in 1979 he lectured as a professor of art history at Concordia University in Montreal.

Beginning in the 1960s, he specialized in the study of Canadian painting. His 1966 "Painting in Canada: a History" was the first comprehensive overview of the field. Subsequent works include the ground-breaking studies on Paul Kane ("Paul Kane's Frontier", 1971) and Cornelius Krieghoff ("Krieghoff", 1979). His later interests centered on Canadian folk art.

JRH was a member of the board of the Journal of Canadian Art History from 1974 through '83, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Literature from the University of Guelph in 1972 and Doctor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in 1982. Among other awards he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1974; and also in that year became an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Selected works

*"Painting in Canada: a History", University of Toronto Press, 1966. Reprinted 1977. ISBN 0-8020-6307-1.
*"Paul Kane's Frontier", University of Texas Press, Austin, TX; 1971. ISBN 0-292-70110-1.
*"A People's Art: Primitive, Naïve, Provincial, and Folk Painting in Canada", University of Toronto Press, 1974. ISBN 0-8020-2153-0 .
*"Krieghoff", University of Toronto Press, 1979. ISBN 0-8020-2348-7.

References

*" [http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0003589 Harper, J. Russell] " at the Canadian Encyclopedia.
* [http://www.cain-rcia.ca/cain-bin/cainMain/ItemDisplay?sessionKey=1029861052016_142_13_29_85&l=0&lvl=2&v=0&coll=1&itm=181006&rt=1&bill=1 Biographical sketch] from the Canadian Archival Information Network.


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