Buy this book on-line KIRKBY, Kenneth Michael : IsumataqKirkby Studios, Vancouver, 1995
Very good in the original spiral bound thin card pictorial wrappers as issued. Some 230pp. photocopies of articles and letters and promotional material, asssembled in the form of an elaborate "Press Book". Artyist name and address and telephone number, presumably in his hand, inside front cover. Ken Kirkby was born in 1940 in London, England. His family moved to Spain in 1945 and then one year later to Portugal where he spent his formative years. Kirkby moved to Canada in 1958, then traveled the Far North and on returning from the Arctic, Kirkby took up residence in Vancouver. His crowning achievement is a massive work titled Isumataq. Measuring 152 feet long by 12 feet in height. Isumataq is the largest portrait on canvas ever painted. This strikingly beautiful creation was unveiled in the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, on March 39, 1992. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of KIRKBY, Kenneth Michael : Isumataq. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including collectables, incunabula, livres illustrées, out of print books and livres rares. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |