Sarah Stanners

I am an independent art historian and curator. Since 2011, I have been the Director and author of the forthcoming Jack Bush Catalogue Raisonné, which is affiliated with the Department of Art History (University of Toronto). Bringing this exhaustive record of more than 1,800 paintings by the artist to fruition is my primary focus. I have taught modern and contemporary Canadian art at the University of British Columbia, the University of Guelph, and the University of Toronto. My professional experience as a curator began here at the University of Toronto, as Assistant Curator of the Hart House permanent art collection and, most recently, I served as Chief Curator of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (2015–18). My current research interests include the international intersections of Color Field art, catalogue raisonné methodology and the role of primary documents, and interrupting the heteronormative narrative of Canadian art history.

Selected Publications

• Passion Over Reason: Tom Thomson & Joyce Wieland (Kleinburg: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2017) [978-1-4868-0480-1]
• "Sight Unseen: Anthony Caro's Prairie, 1967," British Art Studies, issue 3 (Summer 2016) [ISSN 2058-5462]
• Jack Bush: In Studio (Calgary: Esker Foundation, 2016) [ISBN 978-0-9811951-6-2]
• Jack Bush (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2014) [ISBN 978-0-88884-925-0]
• "Adopting Moore and Modernity in Toronto: controversy, reputation and intervention on display," in Sculpture and the Museum, ed. Christopher Marshall (Farnham, Surrey: 2011) [ISBN 9781409409106 (hbk)]