Nancy Townshend

A writer and curator of Alberta art since 1974, Nancy Townshend is the author of Maxwell Bates: Canada’s Premier Expressionist of the 20th Cen- tury (2005). She is also the co-curator of the major exhibition Maxwell Bates: At The Crossroads of Expressionism (2004-2006) for the Edmonton Art Gallery. She is the content specialist for a website on Donald William Buchanan and His Art Collection (www.donaldwbuchanan.ca) and on Maxwell Bates (www.maxwellbates.net). Townshend received her MA in the History of Art from the University of Toronto in 1973, and is a Alberta Centennial Medalist.

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