A Portrait of the Visual Arts in Canada

Self Portrait Source: National Archives of Canada Quote from the writings of Dr. Norman Bethune: A great artist lets himself go....

Blaine Rancourt's 'Overcome' cuts to the chase.  We see a long haired musician, looking upwards as he plays his guitar. A...

             I was born July 15th 1960 in North Bay Ontario Canada, only to move to the small town of Powassan just south of North Bay. ...

Suzanne Gardner's story inspires me for its the story of an artist overcoming seemingly impossible odds. Suzanne was born in Montrea...

Not many people can say they were born in a farmhouse on the kitchen table. Ruth Draper can. She came into this world from just outside t...

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At 85, artist Takao Tanabe still paints every day in the light-filled studio he built on his remote property on the B.C. coast. He’ll ...

Takao Tenabe reflects on his life journey through the various styles he has embraced over the last 50 years. Its a reflective, thoughtful...

Don and Marie Gage MadeInHaliburton.ca is a unique, regional Canadian online art gallery utilized for promoting the work of artists who...

This magnificent bird hangs on view in a Canadian City for everyone to see. Name the artist and the location an...

It gives me pleasure to present another painting by Ron Morrison of Courteny BC. Ron is not only a master watercolourist, but its pretty...

So, Why Nudes? To me, the subject matter that is at once the most beautiful, the most expressive and the most compelling is ourselves ...

                                                      Richard Campeau, Golden BC. Richard correctly iden...

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

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...

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