Bertram Brooker

Bertram Brooker was the first Canadian to exhibit abstract art in this country and he won the country’s first Governor-General’s award for literature. His explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gallery in the country and his novel Think of the Earth (1936) continue to intrigue and delight readers and scholars alike. He devoted much of his professional life to the art of advertising and he is considered to be Canada’s first multidisciplinary avant-gardist, successfully experimenting in literature, sculpture, film, visual arts, and theatre—all with revolutionary intent. He died in 1955.

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