Born in Quebec City, Jean Paul Lemieux began his professional training at the l’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montreal. He studied under Edwin Holgate who was an important influence in the development of his early style. Lemieux continued his studies in Paris where he met Clarence Gagnon. He became professor of [...]
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Marcelle Ferron was born in Louiseville, Quebec, in 1924. At the age of seven, she lost her mother, and her father moved the family to the country, hoping the rural environment would be good for his children. Ferron suffered from tuberculosis in early childhood and frequent stays in the hospital forged [...]
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Bruce Monk, teacher, choreographer, photographer, has been creating fine art photography since 1987. His works are in many personal collections, exhibited internationally and are in the permanent collection of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. Bruce’s work has been featured in campaigns for both Leica [...]
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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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