Fred Ross was first introduced to the possibilities of art in post-war Saint John, where his talents were nurtured by Jack Humphrey, Miller Brittain, Avery Shaw and Ted Campbell, the nexus of the Saint John art community in the 1940s and the 1950s. After completing his studies at the Saint John Vocational School, Ross travelled to Mexico, where he worked with Mexican muralist Pablo O'Higgins and met with Diego Rivera. Later Ross returned to Saint John to develop his own style of painting. A figurative artist, Ross scoured the history of art for source materials, turning the images, symbols and gestures of the Italian Renaissance, seventeenth-century Dutch art and eighteenth-century France into a contemporary idiom. Moving imaginatively between periods and movements, Ross throws a line across the centuries to reinterpret the past in light of the experience of living in Saint John. The Art of Fred Ross: A Timeless Humanism documents the evolution of Ross's work. Featuring more than 60 colour and black and white reproductions, this beautifully illustrated volume leaps from the social realism of Ross's immense murals to the emotional, sensual and intellectual content of his drawings and paintings.