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They launched Consignor Canadian Fine Art at 326 Dundas St West, Toronto, across from the Art Gallery of Ontario, launching a model new to the Canadian market—online-only auctions complemented by a year-round gallery space. [2] Previously, Cowley (born 1976), president, worked for over 10 years at a Toronto auction house —five years as ...
Under this program, Lord Beaverbrook commissioned one of the first significant Canadian paintings of the First World War, The Second Battle of Ypres, 22 April to 25 May 1915, 1917, by English Canadian artist and illustrator Richard Jack. This commission was intended to address the lack of visual documentation of this major battle.
The Firestone Collection of Canadian Art is a collection of over 1600 works of twentieth-century Canadian art amassed by Ottawa residents O.J. and Isobel Firestone beginning in the 1950s. [1] It is now a public collection owned by the City of Ottawa, and under the custodianship of the Ottawa Art Gallery. There are dedicated gallery and storage ...
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff (1949 - 2013) was a Canadian art gallery in Montreal, Quebec, which specialized in the purchase and sale of Canadian Art from 1850 on. [1]Founded in 1949 by Walter and Gertrude Klinkhoff, the gallery dealt directly with some of the most important Canadian artists including A.Y. Jackson, Arthur Lismer, Edwin Holgate, Marc-Aurele Fortin, Prudence Heward and Kathleen ...
In 1919, the CFAP displayed works in Toronto, New York, London and Montréal. These works are now located in the Canadian War Museum, the National Gallery of Canada and the Senate of Canada. [2] Another art program, the Canadian War Records Program, was started in 1942. This was primarily to document the forces in conflict during the Second ...
Ablain-St. Nazaire by Beatty in the collection of the Canadian War Museum.. Beatty was born on May 30, 1869, and went to school in Toronto, Ontario. [2] He was a member of the volunteers who served in the North-West Rebellion in 1885, then worked in the Toronto Fire Department (1869–1900). [3]
The Canadian government has sponsored four official war art programs: the First World War Canadian War Memorials Fund (CWMF), the Second World War Canadian War Records (CWR), the Cold War Canadian Armed Forces Civilian Artists Program (CAFCAP), and the current Canadian Forces Artists Program (CFAP). [3]
Lawren Phillips Harris RCA L.L. D. (October 10, 1910 – April 24, 1994) was a Canadian painter, watercolourist, draughtsman, printmaker, muralist, and art educator. He was known for the highly precise style and disciplined execution of his war art, portraits and abstractions.