- Title: A Northern Nativity: Christmas Dreams of a Prairie Boy
- Author: William Kurelek
- ISBN: 9780887760990
- Page: 430
- Format: Paperback
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William Kurelek Wasyl , painter and writer, evangelist Influenced by Bosch and Brueghel and by prairie roots, his Ukrainian heritage and Roman Catholicism, Kurelek s realistic and symbolic paintings record his historic culture and religious vision The oldest of 7 children, he was expected to help run the farm His lack of mechanical aptitude attracted harsh criticism from his father, as did his wish to be an artist He studied at Winnipeg, Toronto and San Miguel, Mexico In England 1952 59 , he sought psychiatric help and was hospitalized for severe emotional problems, depression and eye pain He converted to Roman Catholicism 1957 , credited God with his healing, and began to paint the Passion of Christ according to St Matthew This series of 160 paintings is housed in the Niagara Falls Art Gallery and Museum.Returning to Toronto, he was established by the early 1960s as an important painter, alternating realistic works depicting his prairie roots with didactic series In the 1970s he began to publish his paintings with simple texts His books for children A Prairie Boy s Winter, 1973 Lumberjack, 1974 A Prairie Boy s Summer, 1975 and A Northern Nativity, 1976 have become modern classics His autobiography, Someone With Me 1973, rev ed 1980 , ends with his marriage to Jean Andrews 1962 Kurelek was an outstanding artist with a unique idealistic and pragmatic vision A modern Jeremiah, he painted a coming apocalypse divine justice on a materialistic, secular society.