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David Milne (18821953) dedicated his life to exploring nature and casting it into art in a variety of modernist formats. He was born into poverty in rural Ontario and remained poor all his life because of his relentless dedication to his art. For him, art was life. Nothing mattered to him as much as the enormous kick he felt when he was able to produce the image his artists eye told him was there.
Milne returned to Ontario in 1929 after a twenty-five-year stay in the United States. In every place he lived his peripatetic existence, Milne created a different kind of landscape painting. In his chosen life of solitude, his mind and hand remained very much alive.
Since Milne spent as much time writing as he did painting, he provides an enormous amount of material for a life writer. His biography re-creates...
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FICTION
Faking
Blue Moon
Transformations
Pure Inventions
tiennes Alphabet
Old Masters
NONFICTION
William Cowper: A Biography
Interior Landscapes: A Life of Paul Nash
The Last Modern: A Life of Herbert Read
William Blake: His Life
Virginia Woolf
Telling Lives or Telling Lies? Biography and Fiction
The Life of Margaret Laurence
Jack, A Life with Writers: The Story of Jack McClelland
Farley: The Life of Farley Mowat
Japanese Warrior Prints, 16461905 (with Yuriko Iwakiri)
Beyond the Great Wave: The Japanese Landscape Print, 17271960
Under Foreign Eyes: Western Cinematic Adaptations of Postwar Japan
Inward Journey: The Life of Lawren Harris
CO-EDITOR
The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper
William Cowper: Selected Letters
Early Voices
Copyright James King, 2015
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Editor: Allison Hirst
Design: Laura Boyle
Cover Design: Sarah Beaudin
Front Cover Image Credit: David Milne. Frost on the Window . 1935.
Oil and graphite. 31 x 41.6. Private Collection.
Back Cover Image Credit: Milne in his cabin with Cabin at Night on the easel. Photograph.
The Art Gallery of Ontario.
Author photo: Julie Thompson
Ebook Design: Carmen Giraudy
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
King, James, 1942-, author
Inner places : the life of David Milne / James King.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-4597-2907-0 (bound).--ISBN 978-1-4597-2908-7 (pdf).-- ISBN 978-1-4597-2909-4 (epub)
1. Milne, David, 1882-1953. 2. Painters--Canada--Biography. I. Title.
ND249.M5K56 2015 759.11 C2015-902071-9
C2015-902072-7
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and Livres Canada Books, and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.
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J. Kirk Howard, President
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To the memory of Ann and Ian Imlach
CHAPTER ONE
PAGE 30 . William Milne, circa 1893. Formerly Milne Family Collection. Photograph. Painting Place .
PAGE 30 . Mary Divortay Milne, circa 1893. Formerly Milne Family Collection. Photograph. Painting Place .
PAGE 36 . David Milne, about age eleven, circa 1892. Formerly Milne Family Collection. Photograph. Painting Place .
CHAPTER TWO
PAGE 39 . Saugeen River, Paisley. Photograph. Art Gallery of Ontario.
PAGE 39 . The Milne home on Orchard Avenue in Paisley, built circa 1893. Photograph taken by David P. Silcox. Painting Place .
PAGE 41 . George Agnew Reid. The Berry Pickers . Circa 1890. Oil. 168 x 125. Collection of Nipissing University.
PAGE 42 . USS No. 7 Elderslie and South Saugeen, about three miles north of Paisley. Photograph. Art Gallery of Ontario.
PAGE 42 . Milne and his pupils in front of their school, circa 190003. Photograph. Art Gallery of Ontario.
PAGE 45. David Milne. Irish Waterfall. Circa 1901. Oil. 55.9 x 79.7. Mr. and Mrs. McCauley, Vancouver.
PAGE 47 . David Milne as a young man, circa 1903. Photograph. Art Gallery of Ontario.
CHAPTER THREE
PAGE 49 . Madison Square Looking South from 34th Street. Photograph by the Byron Studio, Manhattan. Circa 1900. Art Gallery of Ontario.
PAGE 54 . Life Class at the League. Photograph. Art Gallery of Ontario.
PAGE 57 . Claude Monet . Haystacks, Midday . 1890. Oil. 65.6 x 100.6. National Gallery of Australia.
CHAPTER FOUR
PAGE 62 . Patsy Hegarty. Photograph. Art Gallery of Ontario.
PAGE 69 . Amos W. Engle and Milne in New York City, circa 1908. Photograph. Library and Archives Canada.
PAGE 72 . David Milne. Bronx Field and Bush. Circa 1905. Oil. 28 x 41. Private Collection.
PAGE 72 . David Milne. Van Cortland Park . Circa 190810. Oil. 44.5 x 50.8. Art Gallery of Ontario.
PAGE 74. David Milne. The Defiant Maple. Circa 190810. Pastel. 57.8 x 45.8. Private Collection, Toronto.
PAGE 76. Poster by Milne for the March Metropolitan . Circa 190910. Colour offset lithograph. Art Gallery of Ontario.
PAGE 78. Milne in his New York Studio, circa 1909. Photograph. Library and Archives Canada.
CHAPTER FIVE
PAGE 81 . David Milne. Madison Avenue at Madison Square, Looking South . Circa 1911. Etching. National Gallery of Canada.
PAGE 83. David Milne. The Blossom Pickers. Circa 191112 . Oil. 66.2 x 60.7. Milne Family Collection.
PAGE 84 . David Milne. Blonde Rocks. Circa 1911. Watercolour. 38.1 x 31.8. Milne Family Collection.
PAGE 85. John Marin . Fulton Chain, Adirondacks. 1912. Watercolour. 40.96 x 34.93. Colby Museum of Art.
PAGE 86 . David Milne. Stippled Pattern VI. 1914. Watercolour. 66.7 x 47. National Gallery of Canada.
CHAPTER SIX
PAGE 92 . Maurice Prendergast. Madison Square. Circa 1901.Watercolour. 38.1 x 41.9. Whitney Museum of American Art.
PAGE 92. David Milne. White Matrix. Circa 1912. Watercolour. 50.8 x 61. Milne Family Collection.
PAGE 94. David Milne. Red . 1914. Oil. 50.8 x 55.6. Milne Family Collection.
PAGE 95 . Henri Matisse. The Red Studio. 1911. Oil. 181 x 219. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
PAGE 95 . David Milne. Alcove. Circa 1914. Oil. 50.8 x 63.5. National Gallery of Canada.
PAGE 98 . David Milne. Black and White II. 1911. Watercolour. 46 x 58.5. Christopher Huntington and Charlotte McGill.
PAGE 103. Milne and Patsy camping out, circa 191318. Photograph. Library and Archives Canada.
PAGE 105 . James Clarke, circa 1915. Photograph. Art Gallery of Ontario.
CHAPTER SEVEN
PAGE 112. David Milne. The Suburbs. 1915. Oil. 50.8 x 61. Art Gallery of Ontario.
PAGE 112. David Milne. Gray, Brown and Black. 1915. Oil. 61.3 x 66. National Gallery of Canada.
PAGE 114. Under Mountain House. Formerly Milne Family Collection. Photograph. Painting Place.
PAGE 114 . Under Mountain House viewed from the east. Formerly Milne Family Collection. Photograph. Painting Place.
PAGE 115 . Burchs store and post office, Boston Corners. Photograph. Art Gallery of Ontario.
PAGE 119 . Milne at Boston Corners. Photograph. Library and Archives Canada.
PAGE 120 . Milne on the porch at Under Mountain House. Photograph. Library and Archives Canada.
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