The extraordinary life and groundbreaking art of one of the key innovators in Abstract Expressionism Harold Town (1924 1990) began drawing as a three-year-old and never stopped. A prodigious worker, his oeuvre totals some nine thousand works-paintings, collages, monoprints, lithographs, silk screens and linocuts, as well as assemblages, sculptures and murals. A founding member of Painters Eleven, the group that propelled Abstract Expressionism to the forefront in Canada in 1953, Town gained international recognition for his technically inventive Single Autographic Prints. His work is held in the world's renowned art museums-Tate Modern; MoMA in New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; and Galleria d'Arte in Lugano, Switzerland, among them. AUTHOR: Iris Nowell is the author of seven books and this volume is her fourth art book. Her bestselling 'Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art, 2010', was the winner of the Alcuin Award for Excellence in Book Design, is now in its third printing. 110 images