About the Author

Brian Foss

Brian Foss is Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus, and Distinguished Research Professor, Art and Architectural History at Carleton University in Ottawa. A specialist in the visual arts in Canada from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the present, he co-edited The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2010) and has curated or co-curated such exhibitions as Quiet Harmony: The Art of Mary Hiester Reid (Art Gallery of Ontario, 2000), Edwin Holgate (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2005), and 1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group (MMFA, 2016). His previous online art book for the Art Canada Institute is Homer Watson: Life & Work (2019). His monograph War Paint: Art, War, State and Identity in Britain 1939–1945 (Yale University Press, 2007) was shortlisted for the William M.B. Berger Prize for British Art History.