11/150: Arthur Shilling – The Final Works
Arthur Shilling (1941-1986) was a renowned Anishinaabe artist from Rama, Ontario known for his bold combination of Western painting techniques with traditional Anishinaabe imagery.
10/150: Agnes FitzGibbon’s Pioneer Wildflowers
Agnes Dunbar Moodie FitzGibbon (1833-1913) was an important pioneer artist known for her plant paintings. Her works were lithographed and published in the 1869 book Canadian Wild Flowers, done with her aunt, naturalist and author Catharine Parr Traill,
9/150: Sorel Etrog, Existentialist
Sorel Etrog (1933-2014) is best known for his abstracted figurative sculpture, some of it currently on exhibition at Winchester Galleries in Victoria, B.C. (above). Etrog was a towering figure in Canadian modern art, as well as an accomplished writer.
8/150: Charles Comfort – Canada at War
Some of the most popular Canadian paintings of the Second World War are the work of Charles Comfort, who served as an official war artist. But he was also a muralist, sculptor, teacher and administrator, including director of the National Gallery of Canada.
7/150: Karine Giboulo – Waves of Refugees
It’s appropriate that Karine Giboulo’s first European showing is in Germany, ground zero of the international refugee crisis. The Montreal artist has created another of her exquisite miniature worlds to give us passionate social commentary – this time on migration.
6/150: Sandra Meigs, fuelled by grief
Sandra Meigs has been primarily a painter for more than 35 years, influencing Canadian art as a Governor General’s Award winner, educator (University of Victoria) and multi-disciplinary innovator. But it was grief over the loss of her husband after only a year of marriage that propelled her into her best-known […]
