James Wilson Morrice: Paintings and Drawings of Venice is the first comprehensive overview of
the artist's images of Venice Italy. Living in Paris for most of his life Morrice (1865-1924)
was the first Canadian painter to make regular trips to Venice from the mid 1890s to about
1908. This book situates Morrice within the history of Venice and Venetian art in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by looking carefully at his more than one hundred
modernist paintings and numerous drawings of La Serenissima. During his lifetime Morrice's
Venetian pictures appeared in art exhibitions in Paris London and other European countries as
well as in Montreal and the United States. Constantly cited in exhibition reviews Morrice was
praised for his modernity and his Venice works have ensured his fame and importance for years
to come.
