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Brison, Jeffrey D
Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Canada, 12/2005Book Chapter
Walter Abell, professor of art at Acadia University and founder of the Maritime Art Association, spoke at the Conference of Canadian Artists in Kingston, Ontario, in June 1941. He saw the Kingston Conference — a forum for professional artists from across Canada to discuss technical aspects of painting and artists’ position in society — as a “spiritual milestone ... perhaps ... a spiritual mountain top,” even a victory for “cultural democracy.” He later wrote inMaritime Artthat at this first national gathering of artists in Canada “something in the atmosphere of the group seemed to lift it above sectionalism and divisionism
