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BACK ROOM: Hannah Maynard (1834 – 1918)
Photography in British Columbia has a long history that dates back to the 1800s, when Hannah Maynard, a determined and independent-minded woman, made her way in what was then largely a man’s trade. more »
May 8, 2013 by Portia Priegert in HISTORICAL WORKS
CHARLES JOHN COLLINGS (1848-1931)
Few people today have heard of Charles John Collings, but in his time the reclusive British-born painter had a considerable reputation. more »
Dec 4, 2012 by Portia Priegert in HISTORICAL WORKS
Richard Halliday (1939 – 2011)
The expressionist paintings of Richard Halliday are as much about the physical act of creating art as they are about the physical appearance. more »
Aug 31, 2012 by Jill Sawyer in HISTORICAL WORKS (1 Comments)
Courtesy Jill Clark
LEONARD BROOKS (1911 - 2011)
In self-exile from Canada and its diffident art scene, Leonard Brooks’ career proves that none of us know where our lives will take us. more »
Apr 26, 2012 by Jill Sawyer in HISTORICAL WORKS
LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)
Nothing hides in Lucian Freud’s portraiture. more »
Dec 31, 2011 by Jill Sawyer in HISTORICAL WORKS
Courtesy Art Placement Gallery
Reta Cowley (1910 - 2004)
From her early 20s and on into her 40s, Reta Cowley was absorbing the advice, influence, and inspiration of several generations of great western Canadian painters. more »
Aug 31, 2011 in HISTORICAL WORKS
Ron Stonier (1933 - 2001)
Between 1962 and 1978, when Ron Stonier taught painting at the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University), he was a dedicated and inspired instructor who could talk eloquently about his personal thoughts on paint techniques and colour. more »
Apr 30, 2011 in HISTORICAL WORKS (3 Comments)
Pat Keenan (1961-2010)
In the mid-90s, Calgary sculptor Pat Keenan was approached by one of the city’s oilmen to create a unique piece. The man wanted all his poker buddies — a group of the most powerful men in the city — to be sculpted at their regular game. more »
Dec 31, 2010 in HISTORICAL WORKS
Emily Carr (1871-1945)
It’s difficult to reconcile the early watercolours of Emily Carr — products of a genteel education, and a puritan, provincial upbringing in a colonial backwater — with the power and intensity of her later paintings. more »
Aug 31, 2010 in HISTORICAL WORKS
Henry Hunt (1923 – 1985)
In 1941, the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria opened Thunderbird Park on a small piece of land adjacent to the museum. more »
Aug 31, 2010 in HISTORICAL WORKS (1 Comments)
Doug Biden (1956 – 2007)
It’s tempting to wonder if B.C. printmaker Doug Biden had subconscious intimations of his illness and early death. A recurring theme in his work is the visceral anatomy of the human body — skeletons, musculature and organ systems. more »
Dec 31, 2009 in HISTORICAL WORKS
Jack Lee McLean (1924 - 2003)
Jack Lee McLean may not be a household name in the contemporary Western Canadian visual arts community, but he created more than 1500 paintings during his lifetime. more »
Aug 31, 2009 in HISTORICAL WORKS (1 Comments)
Llewellyn Petley-Jones (1908 – 1986)
Llewellyn Petley-Jones moved to Horseshoe Bay in the early 1950s, when it was little more than a settlement of scattered cottages around a small marina, a considerable journey north from downtown Vancouver. more »
Apr 30, 2009 in HISTORICAL WORKS
Kenneth Gordon (1929 – 1998)
Manitoba artist Kenneth Gordon lived several lives — as an art educator, founder of Winnipeg’s Medea Gallery and later as a full-time painter. more »
Dec 31, 2008 in HISTORICAL WORKS
David Borrowman
Leroy Jensen (1927-2005)
In his figurative drawings and paintings, Salt Spring Island artist LeRoy Jensen expressed a deep capacity for empathy and compassion, an interest in representing the human condition. more »
Aug 31, 2008 in HISTORICAL WORKS
Margaret Shelton (1915-1984)
Picture an image of a young Margaret Shelton pedaling down the uneven highway from Calgary to Banff, her paint box, sketchbook and camping gear affixed to her bicycle. more »
Apr 30, 2008 in HISTORICAL WORKS
Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923–2002)
Taken from a purely intellectual point of view, Jean-Paul Riopelle led a charmed life. more »
Dec 31, 2007 in HISTORICAL WORKS
William Kurelek (1927-1977)
For his highly detailed folk art depicting life on the Canadian prairie during the first half of the 20th century, William Kurelek could be compared to Laura Ingalls Wilder. more »
Aug 31, 2007 in HISTORICAL WORKS
HISTORICAL RECORD - Nicholas de Grandmaison.
In a meticulously assembled exhibition, the University of Lethbridge reveals the life of Plains portraitist Nicholas de Grandmaison. more »
Aug 31, 2007 by Gilbert A. Bouchard in HISTORICAL WORKS
A.Y. Jackson (1882-1974)
After his father abandoned the family, Alexander Young Jackson began working for a Montreal lithography company at the age of 12. more »
Dec 31, 2006 by Rod Chapman in HISTORICAL WORKS
John Dean
Tom Thomson (1877-1917)
A popular misconception is that Tom Thomson was a member of the Group of Seven. more »
Aug 31, 2006 in HISTORICAL WORKS
FOREVER EMILY
“New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon” is an ambitious show that is not so much about Carr’s art as it is about the shifting ground from which it is viewed. more »
Aug 31, 2006 by Robin Laurence in HISTORICAL WORKS
Nicholas De Grandmaison (1892-1978)
After serving in the Russian army during WWI, Nicholas de Grandmaison made his way to England to study at the St. John’s Wood Art School in London. more »
Apr 30, 2006 in HISTORICAL WORKS
The Banks Owls
Douglas Banks, a mining engineer and executive in Toronto, collected Inuit art for several summers in the late 1940s and early 1950s while working on the Belcher Islands in southeastern Hudson Bay. more »
Dec 31, 2005 in HISTORICAL WORKS
Kathleen Moir Morris (1893 - 1996)
Born in Montreal in 1893, Kathleen Moir Morris achieved critical acclaim during the lively Quebec art scene of the 1920s and ’30s, but since then has languished as one of an almost-forgotten group of Canadian women painters. more »
Aug 31, 2005 in HISTORICAL WORKS