About the Author

Roald Nasgaard, OC, is a teacher, writer, and curator. The publication of the present book brings together his long-standing commitments to both abstract art and landscape painting. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Abstract Painting in Canada (2007). His major exhibitions and accompanying books include The Mystic North: Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America 1890–1940 (1984); the first Gerhard Richter retrospective in North America (1988); The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941–1960 (2009); and The Plasticiens and Beyond: Montreal 1955–1970 (2013). He co-curated Mystical Landscapes: Masterpieces from Monet, Van Gogh and More for the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Musée d’Orsay (2016–17), and Higher States: Lawren Harris and His American Contemporaries (2017) for the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. In 2022, he shepherded into publication Eli Bornstein: Arctic Journals 1986 and 1987. Nasgaard’s extended essay “Charles Gagnon: A Painter of Paradoxes” will appear in the forthcoming book Charles Gagnon: The Colour of Time, the Sound of Space (2025).