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Canada Council: Award for fine craft Joe Shuster Award: Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards Association: Sobey Art Award: Sobey Art Foundation: For young Canadian artists Strathbutler Award: Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation: For a New Brunswick visual artist. The Marketer Art Competition: The Marketer Magazine: For a Canadian visual artist Victor ...
Established in 2012, the Art Canada Institute is a non-governmental initiative spearheaded by Founder and Executive Director Sara Angel, C.M.. [2] A Trudeau Scholar and arts journalist with a background in publishing, Angel intended to address what she viewed as an absence of accessible and inclusive material on Canadian visual culture through the creation of the ACI, which has been described ...
Jean Paul Lemieux received several awards for his works, including the Louis-Philippe Hébert prize in 1971 and the Molson Prize for the Canada Council for the Arts in 1974. In 1968, he became a Companion of the Order of Canada. He was also a member of the Royal Canadian Academy.
Houle's considerable influence as an artist, curator, teacher and writer have led to his being awarded the Janet Braide Memorial Award for Excellence in Canadian art History in 2003; the 2001 Toronto Arts award for the Visual Arts; the Eiteljorg Fellowship in 2003 and in 2006. In 2015 he was awarded the Governor General's Award for Visual Arts. [8]
On 30 April 1996 Canada Post issued 'The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, 1986–1991, Bill Reid' in the Masterpieces of Canadian art series. The stamp was designed by Pierre-Yves Pelletier based on the sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii (1991) by William Ronald Reid in the Canadian Embassy, Washington, United States.
Bertram Richard Brooker (March 31, 1888 – March 21, 1955) [1] was a Canadian abstract painter. [2] A self-taught polymath (the first in Canadian art), [3] in addition to being a visual artist, Brooker was a Governor General's Award-winning novelist, as well as a poet, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, copywriter, graphic designer, and advertising executive. [4]
Art Canada Institute. ISBN 978-1-4871-0032-2. Harper, J Russell (1971). Paul Kane's Frontier; Including Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America by Paul Kane. University of Texas Press. MacLaren, I. S. :"I came to rite thare portraits": Paul Kane's Journal of His Western Travels, 1846–1848, American Art Journal 21(2), 1989.
Carl Beam was the first artist of Indigenous ancestry to have his work purchased by the National Gallery of Canada as contemporary art (1986), thus opening the door for a generation of Indigenous artists to enter. "Despite Beam's reluctance to be defined as a "Native Artist", his art deals with the struggles of his people." [14]