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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

And The Winner Is

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                                                      Richard Campeau, Golden BC. Richard correctly iden...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

"Who's That?" A.E. Robillard, Documentary Artist

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" Although this painting by A.E. Robillard was done in 1900, and is loosely classified as documentary art, it was most likely just a...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Roy MacGregor:The Tom Thomson Mystery

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Friday, October 26, 2012

Jack Bush, Abstractionist

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Jack Bush was born in Toronto in 1909 and died there in 1977. He studied in Montreal and in Toronto, at the Ontario College of Art, bef...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Ron Simpkins Slide Show

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Monday, October 22, 2012

John Howard: Early Toronto Artist and Documentarian

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Mr. T.Tinning, Rescuing the Crew of the Pacific, 1875. Artist: John Howard 19th Century Canadian documentary watercolouring ...
Saturday, October 20, 2012

A Stunningly Beautiful Story of two Artists Painting in the Footsteps of Tom Thomson, David Milne, and Emily Carr,

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If you have a poet's heart and an artist's soul you won't be disappointed spending 13 minutes lost in the beautiful world of t...
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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Please Let Me In: James O'Donnell designs Montreal's Notre Dame Basillica Before His Death Bed Conversion to Catholicism

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It may come as a suprise to many that Notre Dam Basilica of Montreal, is the realization of the architectural work of James O'Donnell...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

"Same Song, Hundreth Verse" - Beaverbrook Style

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How does that old song go?   Same song, second verse, a little bit louder and a little bit worse. This is the third blog entry on the ongoin...
Sunday, October 14, 2012

Early art from Niagara and the Battle of Queenston Heights

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source: Flint and Tomahawk, Queenston Heights website. please click here source: Upper Canada History.ca . 
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Saturday, October 13, 2012

The Death of Sir Isaac Brock - 200 years ago today.

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Death of Sir Isaac Brock. Battle of Queenston Heights. October 13, 2013. Battle of Queenston Heights. artist unknown. above: P...
Friday, October 12, 2012

Another Work from the Portrait's Name the Artwork Series

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                                            Name the Artwork Series.                                                  2 This sc...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Notes from, Paul Peel's 'After the Bath', by Bill Tomlinson

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I saw this painting about 45 years ago when I was walking down a staircase in Parkwood estate, in Oshawa On, the home of the late Samuel M...
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Monday, October 8, 2012

Church Art by Ozias Leduc

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La Gloire Divine (1944-1947), église Notre-Dame-de-la-Présentation, Shawinigan, Quebec. To read the Wikipedia article on Ozias Leduc, ...
Thursday, October 4, 2012

In Memory of Glenn Gould

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October 4th commemorates the 30th anniversary of the death of  Canada's  most celebrated pianist, Glenn Gould. This wonderful scu...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

The Quest for Heroes in Art - Jeff Molloy

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I was gobsmacked when I found my way onto Jeff Molloy's website.  I gasped, "What is going on here?" Louis Riel, looki...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

Jeff Molloy - Speaking Out For Canada

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Jeff Molloy is an artist whose work focuses on Canadian culture, history and tradition. . He is a farmer of art. He likes to get his ha...
Friday, September 28, 2012

What? An Art Book with No Pictures?

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Can this really be so? Students being asked to buy a book such as the one pictured above? From: boingboing.net Students enrolled ...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Richard Pepin - Contemporary Canadian Artist.

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Kelly's Farm by Bruce Newman

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Kelly's Farm is  pastoral and painterly in style.  There's a certain sense of nostalgia about it for we are living in the era...