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The Life and Art of Frank Molnar, Jack Hardman, LeRoy Jensen Eve Lazarus, Claudia Cornwall, Wendy Newbold Patterson. Introduction by Max Wyman. The Unheralded J Artists of BC series (#2). Salt Spring Island, B.C., Mother Tongue Publishing, 2009. xii, 146 p. illus. S34. 95 softcover.
The first volume in the Unheralded Artists series, reviewed by Harvey A. Buckmaster in British Columbia History Vol. 42 No.3. reminded us of the life and art of sculptor David Marshall. This second volume advocates for three of Marshall's contemporaries, "wildly creative individuals who emerged as artists in the fertile 1950s and 1960s". Like him, they languished off-centre from the British Columbian and Canadian art scene as exhibited and marketed by public and private galleries.
None of them is represented in the Vancouver Art Gallery's Vancouver: Art and Artists 1931-1983, or, more surprisingly, in the 2009 online project Ruins in Process; Vancouver Art in the Sixties, but their influence spread more widely than they realized, and their stories reveal much of the province's cultural...