some more highlights from the preview for Heffel's Nov. 19 auctions (vertical orientation): 1) Rita Letendre, 2) Paul-Émile Borduas, 3) Daphne Odjig, 4) Paraskeva Clark 🖼️🖼️🖼️ ✨
#ritaletendre #paulémileborduas #daphneodjig #paraskevaclark #auction #canadianart #canadianpainting #heffel
Sixteen works, including nine on loan from the Smithsonian, are on display at the Owens Art Gallery in Sackville until April 6. Hidden Blackness is the first major exhibition of Bannister's work ever presented in Canada, according to the gallery.
'October'
Anne Savage
1920
"Known for her lyrical, rhythmic landscapes, Anne Savage (1896-1971) was one of several important women artists who were active in Montreal after the First World War." - National Gallery of Canada.
'Castle Mountain'
Elyse Dodge
2023
"Geometric landscape artist, Elyse Dodge, was born in British Columbia & is currently based in L.A".
'Housetops in the Ward'
A.J. Casson
1924
#CanadianPainting #GroupofSeven #AGO #SilentSunday
Alfred Joseph Casson (1898 –1992)
Toronto-born Casson is best known for his depictions of the City and the landscapes, forests & farms of Southern #Ontario. He was the youngest member of the Group of Seven.
From the 1920s onward, the 'Ward' neighbourhood in this painting was slowly demolished for downtown office towers and #Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square.
'Skating on Blue Grey Ice'
Jennifer Walton
2017
'Jennifer Walton is a Toronto based artist whose paintings capture the fragility of place in a rapidly changing global climate.'
#CanadianPainting #Climate #environment #winter #ice #hockey #NotAPhotograph
'Village on the Lower St. Lawrence' - 'Village dans le bas St-Laurent'
Randolph Hewton
circa 1925
Canadian artist Randolph Hewton was born 1888, in #Quebec. Following his art studies in #Montreal he won a scholarship to study in #Paris at the Academie Julian from 1908 to 1910. It was there that he met painter A.Y. Jackson, who would become his lifelong friend.
Hewton died in #Belleville, Ontario in 1960.
#CanadianPainting #winter #SilentSunday
Michael Snow, a legendary Canadian artist who graced Toronto with 'Flight Stop' in the Eaton Centre and 'The Audience' at the Rogers Centre, has died.
Snow famously took the Eaton Centre to court for altering his art installation after the mall wrapped red ribbons and bows around the necks of the geese during the 1981 Christmas season.
#Toronto #CanadianPainting
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/art
'Wonderous Land'
Ted Harrison
1996
#CanadianPainting #SilentSunday
'Ted Harrison is one of #Canada's most popular #artists.
He was born in the UK & immigrated to Canada in 1957, when he settled in the small town of Carcross just outside #Whitehorse, in the #Yukon. His love of the land and people of the Yukon brought him national acclaim. Harrison's distinctive style of painting was both colourful and sophisticated yet retains an innocent charm.' Harrison died in 2015, in #Victoria, BC.
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦
Adam Lauder
Chris Mackay 🇨🇦
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