Hughes, Mary Jo — Marion Nelson Hooker: Two Lives, One Passion

Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Art Gallery First printing pp. 59. Square quarto. Illustrated card covers. Replete with many black and white and colour photographs accompanied with captions. No detectable flaws, in fine condition. Biography with art catalogue attributes (e.g., many color illus. of Hooker's art) of a Canadian artist who left her painting career in St. Catherines, Ontario to marry the man who would become mayor of Selkirk, Manitoba. In Manitoba she painted wilderness scenes, paintings of important buildings, and portraits, some of Indian chiefs, and one of her paintings graced the cover of a local church cookbook, one of Manitoba's earliest cookbooks. ¶ Provenance: From the personal library of the late Gary Essar (1944-2025), noted Canadian art historian, and curator.