Category: Painting-Canadian

Canadian Painters

Quick Hits: Duane Nickerson

From the jungles of Borneo to the Niagara Escarpment, this award-winning Canadian artist continues to explore the topography of the natural environment in new oil paintings.  Duane Nickerson: Tree , his solo exhibition, is on at Abbozzo Gallery in Toronto through March 2.

35/150: Lismer – Halifax Explosion

Artist Arthur Lismer, who later would co-found the famed Group of Seven, was living 10 miles outside Halifax on Dec. 6, 1917 when he felt the shock wave of the largest man-made explosion the world had seen. The collision of two ships, one carrying munitions for World War I […]

32/150: East Coast Realism

The late Maritime artist Peter Gough captured the magic of  light and water, universal themes of the Canadian psyche. One of Atlantic Canada’s preeminent realist artists, Gough’s affinity for the outdoors pinioned his luminous