Two Canadian art books – E.J. Hughes: Canadian War Artist, by Robert Amos, and Moving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO, edited by Wanda Nanibush and Georgiana Uhlyarik – are in the running for regional book prizes.
The Hughes book, published by TouchWood Editions, is a finalist for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize, awarded to the year's best fiction, non-fiction or poetry book. The winner will be announced Oct. 11.
The book, the fourth in a series on Hughes, looks at his time as a war artist during the Second World War. It has already won a PubWest Book Design Award and the Basil Stuart Stubbs Book Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia.
Moving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO is one of six titles shortlisted for the Toronto Book Awards.
Published by Goose Lane Editions with the Art Gallery of Ontario, the book outlines the gallery's efforts to better showcase the work of Indigenous artists.
Nanibush, the gallery's curator of Indigenous art, and Uhlyarik, curator of Canadian art, included more than 100 reproductions of work by Indigenous artists, including Rebecca Belmore, Kent Monkman, Shuvinai Ashoona and Annie Pootoogook.
The Toronto winner will be announced Oct. 10.