Some Magnetic Force: Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald Writings

Please join us for a live podcast discussion between book editor Michael Parke-Tayor and Saelan Twerdy on the writing collected in the recent Concordia University Press book, Some Magnetic Force. 

Artist and educator Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald (1890–1956) was the only member of the Group of Seven, the iconic collective of Canadian landscape painters, who was based in Western Canada.

Michael Parke-Taylor has uncovered and chronologically organized FitzGerald’s letters, diary, lectures, and reports to show how FitzGerald understood the development of his practice, communicated the philosophy of art to his art students, confronted challenges in his career, and presented his spiritual aspirations, views about the natural world, and private desires. These writings also elucidate the material and reputational realities of artistic production in places beyond the period’s dominant Canadian art centers of Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa.

How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Webinar or watching live on YouTube.

Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca

Michael Parke-Taylor is an art historian and curator based in Toronto. 

Saelan Twerdy is an editor an author based in Montreal and coordinates editorial production at Concordia University Press.

Co-produced by Concordia University Press and Volume 7 MTL