Wilf Perreault was born in Albertville, Saskatchewan in 1947. He received his education at the University of Saskatchewan (BA Honours in Art, 1970) and has gone on to become one of Saskatchewan’s most highly regarded visual artists. Painting the familiar landscape in and around the city of Regina where he has lived and worked since [...]
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Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1890. His boyhood summers were spent on his grandmother’s farm and a deep love of the prairies remained with him all of his life. After leaving school he wrote “I worked in a wholesale drug office and finding the job not quite satisfying I felt the [...]
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Tom Thomson was born near Claremont, Ontario and grew up in Leith, near Owen Sound. After moving to Toronto his early career was spent as a commercial artist at Grip Ltd., the commercial design firm where he first met MacDonald, Harris, Jackson, Lismer and others. By 1911, Thomson was making regular sketching trips to areas [...]
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Arthur Lismer was born in Sheffield, England in 1885. He apprenticed there as an engraver for seven years. During his apprenticeship, at the age of 15, he became an illustrator for the Sheffield Independent. He studied at the Sheffield School of Art (1898 – 1905) and in Belgium at the Antwerp Academy (1906-07). Lismer came [...]
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James E.H. MacDonald was born in Durham England in 1873 of Canadian parents. He took evening art classes at the Hamilton Art School as a teenager, before relocating to Toronto. In Toronto He studied at the Central Ontario School of Art. From 1894 he worked as a graphic designer at Grip Ltd. In 1903, he [...]
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Born in Montreal, Alexander Young Jackson left school at the age of twelve and began work at a Montreal printing firm. In 1906 he undertook art studies at the Art Institute in Chicago. The following year he enrolled at the Academie Julian in Paris and remained in France until 1912. During this period his painting [...]
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Lawren Harris was born in Brantford, Ontario and at the age of 19 went to Berlin for academic training. Upon returning to Ontario he met J.E.H. MacDonald who shared his vision of a new and distinctive way of depicting the Canadian landscape. Harris became the driving force behind the Group of Seven. A.Y. Jackson claimed: [...]
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Blackwood opened his own art studio in 1956, where he painted during the winter months and sold his work to visitors during the summer. His artwork won several awards and gained him admission to the Ontario College of Art (OCA) in 1959. In 1962, he sold one of his first etchings, “The Lost Party”, to the National Gallery of Canada for its Permanent Collection.
Blackwood has received international recognition for his work as an artist and master printmaker and is recognized as one of Canada’s most important artists. Elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1975, he has been awarded the country’s highest honours in recognition of his contribution to the artistic and cultural life of Canada. In 1971, Blackwood founded the Erindale College Art Gallery at Erindale College, now renamed the University of Toronto at Mississauga. The gallery was renamed the Blackwood Gallery in 1992.
David Blackwood’s work is represented in important public and private collections in Canada and abroad. In 2000 the Art Gallery of Ontario announced a major gift of prints making the AGO the “collection of record” for the artist’s work, thus creating a center for study for his prints.
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Recently relocated to Winnipeg, distinguished Iraqi painter, Hashim Hannoon, is today faced with the opportunity and the challenge of introducing his work to a Canadian audience. Writing in The Golden Medium, the monograph published for Hannoon’s 2008 solo exhibition in Amman, Jordan, Khalid Khudayer describes Hashim Hannoon as a realist and an abstract expressionist. He suggests that Hannoon’s style of abstraction captures the golden medium, the perfect balance between form and colour.
Wherever he lives, Hannoon seeks to achieve contact with the spiritual existence of a place. Since his move to Winnipeg, that city has become a subject in his canvases. He is not, however, concerned with painting a literal portrait of a place, but rather in painting his own self-portrait within that place. This process results in abstract images of gentle beauty, which invite the viewer to experience what he has experienced, through the filter of his imagination. Although born from tragedy of war, the paintings of Hashim Hannoon radiate vitality and optimism.
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Born 1879 in Montreal, PQ, Ethel Seath studied drawing as a child with Miss Stone. She joined the staff of the Montreal Witness newspaper as an illustrator in 1895. While working, she continued her art studies at the Conseil des Arts et Manufactures. She joined the staff of the Montreal Star in 1901, continuing her [...]
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