James Wilson Morrice: Paintings and Drawings of Venice

This book situates the Canadian painter Morrice within the history of Venetian art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by looking at his more than 100 modernist paintings of “La Serenissima.”

James Wilson Morrice: Paintings and Drawings of Venice is the first comprehensive overview of the artist’s images of Venice, Italy. Living in Paris for most of his life, Morrice (1865–1924) was the first Canadian painter to make regular trips to Venice from the mid 1890s to about 1908. This book s...