<p>Edward Mitchell Bannister was an accomplished nineteenth-century painter known for seascapes and pastoral landscapes. Born in Saint Andrews, New Brunswick, Bannister moved to New England as a young man and became involved with the abolitionist movement in Boston. He won first prize at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia for his painting <i>Under the Oaks<\/i>, making him the first African American\/Canadian to win a major American art prize. He was also a founding member of the Rhode Island School of Design. Yet despite this success, he has remained largely unknown in Canada. <\/p><p><i>Edward Mitchell Bannister: Hidden Blackness<\/i> is the first Canadian publication about this groundbreaking Black artist and abolitionist. This landmark book features historical images and reproductions of Bannister\u2019s paintings \u2014 many drawn from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum \u2014 alongside essays that explore his life and work, the historical context for Black people and communities in nineteenth-century New Brunswick, and fascinating recent discoveries regarding his practice of recycling figure paintings into landscapes. <\/p><p>Peintre accompli, Edward Mitchell Bannister est r\u00e9put\u00e9 pour ses marines et ses paysages champ\u00eatres. N\u00e9 \u00e0 Saint Andrews, au Nouveau-Brunswick, cet artiste du XIXe si\u00e8cle s\u2019installe en Nouvelle-Angleterre d\u00e8s sa jeunesse, o\u00f9 il s\u2019investit dans un mouvement abolitionniste de Boston. Son tableau intitul\u00e9 <i>Under the Oaks<\/i> [Sous les ch\u00eanes] lui vaut le premier prix de la Centennial Exposition de Philadelphie, en 1876, et fait de lui le premier Afro-Am\u00e9ricain d\u2019origine canadienne \u00e0 remporter l\u2019un des plus prestigieux prix artistiques des \u00c9tats-Unis. C\u2019est aussi l\u2019un des membres fondateurs de la Rhode Island School of Design. Malgr\u00e9 tout, Bannister reste largement inconnu au Canada. <\/p><p>Premier ouvrage publi\u00e9 au Canada sur cet abolitionniste et artiste noir novateur, <i>Edward Mitchell Bannister. Noir oubli\u00e9<\/i> est un tournant. Il r\u00e9unit des images historiques, des reproductions d\u2019\u0153uvres, dont beaucoup figurent dans la collection du Smithsonian American Art Museum, et des essais qui mettent en lumi\u00e8re la vie et l\u2019\u0153uvre du peintre, le contexte historique des Noirs et des communaut\u00e9s noires dans le Nouveau-Brunswick du XIXe si\u00e8cle. Il pr\u00e9sente en outre des d\u00e9couvertes r\u00e9centes et fascinantes sur la pratique de Bannister, qui transformait volontiers en paysages des tableaux repr\u00e9sentant d\u2019abord des personnages. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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