HAROLD TOWN "BLUE TOY HORSE" MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER, 1976 California" With their interest in parody

With their interest in parody and appropriation

Like the best of his work

Over the course of four decades

Signed and dated 1980 by the artist on the book spine

and warfare

HAROLD TOWN "BLUE TOY HORSE" MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER, 1976 California" With their interest in parodyHarold Town (1924 1990) remains one of the best known and most intriguing artists from the "Painters Eleven" group. Town's reputation was established in the late 1950s with a series of mysterious unique abstract prints ("Single Autographic Prints") that included collage elements. In 1956, he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale with these works. Over the following decades, the artist continued reinventing his aesthetic, regularly changing medium