Part biography, part art history and 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 and explores the reasons both sociopolitical and contemporary of why Marshall has been neglected as an artist in his own city. 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.

MONIKA ULLMANN: After earning a BA in English from SFU in 1978, Monika worked as house editor for CommCept Publishing. Married to sculptor Peter Paul Ochs, she wrote for the Sculptors' Society of B.C. and curated The Age of Bronze exhibition at Images for a Vancouver Gallery. After several years in the high tech industry she became a freelance journalist, writing features on the arts, health and tourism for magazines and newspapers in Vancouver.

BROOKS JOYNER, who contributes the foreword, is the Director of the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha Nebraska. He was the Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery in BC, 1993-1996. He has more than twenty-five years of academic, curatorial and administrative experience in art museums and art history.

-- Mother Tongue Publishing