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Sunday, October 12, 1997 More Showbiz headlines Underpainter an undertaking By KIM COVERT Edmonton Sun
THE UNDERPAINTER
Jane Urquhart
(McClelland and Stewart) Austin Fraser is a renowned minimalist painter who's spent his life running from emotional ties.
He ends up, at the end of his life, a bitter old man surrounded by a china collection that was someone else's dream and canvasses that he paints, then repaints again and again until the original image is virtually indistinct.
This novel is his memoir. Austin tells about his childhood in Chicago in the early 1900s, his mother, who died when he was young, and his distant father, who suddenly became rich and distant.
His father buys a silver mine in Ontario, on Lake Superior, and Austin begins spending his summers in the town of Davenport where he meets George, who paints china, which Austin considers to be an inferior art compared to his own. | |
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