David Franklin Marshall

The Life And Art of David Marshall;

1st book in the series– The Unheralded Artists of BC, by Monika Ullmann", introduction by Brooks Joyner

Part biography, part art history, part art commentary and first in the new series: The Unheralded Artists of BC, this book tells the story of a prodigious sculptor whose artistic legacy is known to only a few collectors, fellow sculptors and curators. Illustrated throughout with rare colour photographs, the lively, wide ranging text is based on original interviews, letters and diaries. A resident of Vancouver from his early twenties on, Marshall was admired as a master carver but also worked extensively in bronze. At a time when conceptual and installation art dominated, he worked in the Modernist tradition he shared with his friend, Henry Moore, who was one of many influences. His work is based on universal and timeless principles of harmony and remains one of the great treasures waiting to be discovered by the Canadian art world and the general public. He was a founding member of the Sculptors’ Society of British Columbia. He died in 2006.

Author: MONIKA ULLMANN

Monika began writing and editing Douglas College EVENT magazine during the mid ‘seventies, and after earning a BA in English from SFU in 1978, she worked as house editor for CommCept Publishing. Married to sculptor Peter Paul Ochs, she knew David Marshall, wrote for the Sculptors' Society of B.C. and curated The Age of Bronze exhibition at Images for a Canadian Heritage, a Vancouver Gallery. After several years in the high tech industry as a public relations professional, she became a freelance journalist, writing features on the arts, health and tourism for magazines and newspapers in Vancouver.

Brooks Joyner is the Director of the Josyln Art Museum in Omaha Nebraska. He was the Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery in BC, 1993-1996.

"This important book reveals David Marshall as a sculptor of certain strength, whose art grew throughout his lifetime to achieve a level of simplicity and power that arise from a clear statement of form and mass with absolute fidelity to each of the media – wood, stone and bronze – in which he worked. He is one of a generation of late modernists who have just left us – one thinks of Chillida or Oteiza in Spain, for example – whose work will endure. His accomplishment deserves to be better known in Canada, and at its best merits recognition worldwide."

- BARRY LORD, President of Lord Cultural Resources, author of The History of Painting in Canada: Toward a People's Art

December 2008

ISBN: 978-1896949-44-4

Softcover with flaps

"8 x 9.5”

176 pages, colour photographs throughout

Cover: Three 10' high Carrara marble sculptures by David Marshall, photo by Dan Fairchild Photography