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![One of the 5 Greatest Films]()
One of the 5 Greatest Films
Jack Chambers’s Hart of London, 1968–70, is an experimental tour de force
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![Turbulent Force]()
Turbulent Force
Norval Morrisseau invokes traditional beliefs and personal struggle in Water Spirit, 1972
By Carmen Robertson -
![The Artist in Action]()
The Artist in Action
Oviloo Tunnillie’s creative process revealed in Self-Portrait with Carving Stone, 1998
By Darlene Coward Wight -
![A Dynamic Contribution]()
A Dynamic Contribution
Zig-zagging bodies show the drama on a war’s home front in Paraskeva Clark’s Parachute Riggers, 1947
By Christine Boyanoski -
![Art and Commerce]()
Art and Commerce
General Idea mixes commentary and commercials in Test Tube, 1979
By Sarah E.K. Smith -
![A Haunting Figure]()
A Haunting Figure
Jean Paul Lemieux finds a new way of seeing his Quebecois home in The Evening Visitor, 1956
By Michèle Grandbois -
![A Defiant Gaze]()
A Defiant Gaze
A rural girl shows modern poise in Prudence Heward’s Rollande, 1929
By Julia Skelly -
![A Passion for Activism]()
A Passion for Activism
Presents from Madrid, 1937, announced Paraskeva Clark’s newfound political consciousness
By Christine Boyanoski -
![Starvation and Scandal]()
Starvation and Scandal
William Brymner bears witness to state-enforced famine in Giving Out Rations to the Blackfoot Indians, NWT, 1886
By Jocelyn Anderson -
![Tundra Landscape]()
Tundra Landscape
Shuvinai Ashoona brings inspiration and insight to her Cape Dorset Composition (Community with Six Houses), 2004–2005
By Nancy G. Campbell -
![An age of perfect happiness]()
An age of perfect happiness
In 1910 Remembered, 1962, Jean Paul Lemieux revisits his youth
By Michèle Grandbois -
![Inside and Out]()
Inside and Out
Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald finds harmony in From an Upstairs Window, Winter, c.1950–51
By Michael Parke-Taylor -
![A Window to the Past]()
A Window to the Past
William Kurelek’s Reminiscences of Youth, 1968, opens one memory into another
By Andrew Kear -
![A Lunar Vision]()
A Lunar Vision
Shadows and illuminations in Paterson Ewen’s Gibbous Moon, 1980
By John G. Hatch -
![Life on Ice]()
Life on Ice
Rink Theme—Skaters, 1969, is Molly Lamb Bobak’s dynamic interpretation of an everyday scene
By Michelle Gewurtz -
![An Artistic Breakthrough]()
An Artistic Breakthrough
The exuberant Formative Colour Activity, 1934, was Jock Macdonald’s first semi-abstract painting
By Joyce Zemans -
![Between Worlds]()
Between Worlds
Pitseolak Ashoona’s The Shaman’s Wife, 1980, is an arresting portrait of spiritual transcendence
By Christine Lalonde -
![The Artist’s Muse]()
The Artist’s Muse
Ozias Leduc’s Erato (Muse in the Forest), c.1906
By Laurier Lacroix -
![Secret Revealed]()
Secret Revealed
Kathleen Munn’s Untitled I, c.1926–28, was originally part of a larger work
By Georgiana Uhlyarik -
![Otherworldly Waters]()
Otherworldly Waters
Homer Watson creates a mystic landscape in Moonlit Stream, 1933
By Brian Foss -
![A Spontaneous Style]()
A Spontaneous Style
Paul-Émile Borduas’s first entirely non-preconceived painting was Green Abstraction, 1941
By François-Marc Gagnon -
![Abstract Harmony]()
Abstract Harmony
Music provides the energy that animates Bertram Brooker’s Sounds Assembling, 1928
By James King -
![A Multilayered Monochrome]()
A Multilayered Monochrome
Layers of pulsating colour animate Françoise Sullivan’s Homage to Paterson, 2003
By Annie Gérin -
![Building a Reputation]()
Building a Reputation
Framework of Tube and Staging Looking In, Victoria Bridge, 1859, helped launch the career of Montreal photographer William Notman
By Sarah Parsons -
![Mysteries of the Mind]()
Mysteries of the Mind
Sorel Etrog’s Dream Chamber, 1976, evokes the secret world of thoughts and dreams
By Alma Mikulinsky -
![Flying High]()
Flying High
Soaring over the Manitoba landscape, Gershon Iskowitz found the basis for the unique style of Lowlands No. 9, 1970
By Ihor Holubizky -
![Fired Up]()
Fired Up
Tom Thomson captures the magic of a bright sky and blazing clouds in Sunset, 1915
By David P. Silcox -
![A Momentous Meeting]()
A Momentous Meeting
Nature and machine collide in Alex Colville’s dramatic painting Horse and Train, 1954
By Ray Cronin -
![Working from Home]()
Working from Home
Domestic and work spaces overlap in Mary Hiester Reid’s Studio in Paris, 1896
By Andrea Terry -
![Power, Myth, and Politics]()
Power, Myth, and Politics
Zacharie Vincent evokes the origin story of the Wendat chiefs in Head of a Moose, from Nature, c.1855
By Louise Vigneault -
![Approaching Totality]()
Approaching Totality
Paterson Ewen finds a new medium in, Solar Eclipse, 1971
By John G. Hatch -
![A Force of Nature]()
A Force of Nature
Paul Kane explores a Romantic wilderness in The Cackabakah Falls, c.1849–1856
By Arlene Gehmacher -
![Heroic Hues]()
Heroic Hues
Yves Gaucher’s harmony in Two Blues, Two Greys, 1976
By Roald Nasgaard -
![Beautiful Beasts]()
Beautiful Beasts
Shuvinai Ashoona presents an extraordinary scene in Hunting Monster, 2015
By Nancy G. Campbell -
![Dynamic New Beauty]()
Dynamic New Beauty
Kathleen Munn’s ambitious modernism animates The Dance, c.1923
By Georgiana Uhlyarik -
![Wind and Rain]()
Wind and Rain
Paterson Ewen draws on the symbolic force of water in Coastline with Precipitation, 1975
By John G. Hatch -
![No Way In]()
No Way In
Françoise Sullivan’s Blocked Phone Booth (Cabine téléphonique bloquée), 1978–79
By Annie Gérin -
![Ticker-tape and Tragedy]()
Ticker-tape and Tragedy
Harold Town’s Festival, 1965, evokes wild nights and cosmic depths
By Gerta Moray -
![Portrait of Vulnerability]()
Portrait of Vulnerability
Paterson Ewen’s Bandaged Man, 1973, reveals the artist’s inner state
By John G. Hatch -
![Seasonal Abundance]()
Seasonal Abundance
Helen McNicoll captures the bustle of a French village scene in Marketplace, 1910
By Samantha Burton -
![Winter Pageantry]()
Winter Pageantry
William Notman makes a crowd come to life in Skating Carnival, Victoria Rink, Montreal, 1870
By Sarah Parsons -
![Mystical Harmony]()
Mystical Harmony
In Northern Lights Septet No. 3, 1985, Gershon Iskowitz’s dramatic colours take a monumental turn
By Ihor Holubizky -
![On Equal Ground]()
On Equal Ground
Molly Lamb Bobak documents her fellow servicewoman in Private Roy, Canadian Women’s Army Corps, 1946
By Michelle Gewurtz -
![His Sign of the Times]()
His Sign of the Times
Greg Curnoe cries foul in The True North Strong and Free, #1–5, 1968
By Judith Rodger -
![Classically Modern]()
Classically Modern
Prudence Heward captures the spirit of an age in Girl on a Hill, 1928
By Julia Skelly -
![A Lively Tussle]()
A Lively Tussle
Oviloo Tunnillie animates stone in Dogs Fighting, c.1975
By Darlene Coward Wight -
![A New Way of Painting]()
A New Way of Painting
Jock Macdonald seeks the infinite in Fall (Modality 16), 1937
By Joyce Zemans -
![The Great Canadian Escape]()
The Great Canadian Escape
Rat Life and Diet in North America, 1968, portrays Joyce Wieland’s take on the Vietnam War
By Johanne Sloan -
![Beyond the Horizons]()
Beyond the Horizons
Shuvinai Ashoona collaborates with John Noestheden to create Earth and Sky (detail), 2008
By Nancy G. Campbell -
![Save the Seals]()
Save the Seals
General Idea picture themselves as pups to comment on the AIDS crisis in Fin de siècle, 1990
By Sarah E. K. Smith -
![The Spiritual Landscape]()
The Spiritual Landscape
Real and abstract meet in The St. Lawrence, 1931, by Bertram Brooker
By James King -
![A Painter of Doon]()
A Painter of Doon
In A Coming Storm in the Adirondacks, 1879, Homer Watson enters the American landscape
By Brian Foss -
![Suspended Moments]()
Suspended Moments
Jack Chambers stops time in his unfinished painting Lunch, 1969
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![By Habitat and Size]()
By Habitat and Size
Louis Nicolas’s, Birds, n.d., captures the natural world
By François-Marc Gagnon -
![Forms in Flight]()
Forms in Flight
Gershon Iskowitz’s Autumn Landscape #2, 1967, turns to an abstract sky
By Ihor Holubizky -
![Repainting History]()
Repainting History
Robert Houle’s Kanata, 1992, Nishnaabe waabdaan (“our people will witness it”)
By Shirley Madill -
![Sculpting in Paint]()
Sculpting in Paint
The Russian modernism of Paraskeva Clark’s Wheat Field, 1936
By Christine Boyanoski -
![A Study in Harmony]()
A Study in Harmony
Ozias Leduc’s Boy with Bread, 1892–99, visualizes both sound and time
By Laurier Lacroix -
![An Arcadian Canada]()
An Arcadian Canada
Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald’s idyllic vision of Manitoba, Summer Afternoon, The Prairie, 1921
By Michael Parke-Taylor -
![Graphic Aftermath]()
Graphic Aftermath
Oscar Cahén’s cover illustration for Hiroshima, 1946, foregrounds the human costs of war
By Jaleen Grove -
![Mouthing the Words]()
Mouthing the Words
Joyce Wieland kisses her way through the national anthem in O Canada, 1970
By Johanne Sloan -
![Personal Myth]()
Personal Myth
In Legend of the Woman Who Turned into a Narwhal, c.1974, Inuit artist Pitseolak Ashoona builds a biography from a traditional tale
By Christine Lalonde -
![Wrapped in Tradition]()
Wrapped in Tradition
Homer Watson’s studio frieze, 1893–1894, catalogues the artists he most admired
By Brian Foss -
![Racing Colours]()
Racing Colours
Greg Curnoe’s beloved bicycle is the subject of Mariposa 10 Speed No. 2, 1973
By Judith Rodger -
![The Artist’s Reflection]()
The Artist’s Reflection
Huron-Wendat artist Zacharie Vincent likely saw himself in his image of Tecumseh, Huron, n.d.
By Louise Vigneault -
![Echoes of the Divine]()
Echoes of the Divine
The political meets the spiritual in Saulteaux artist Robert Houle’s Morningstar, 1999
By Shirley Madill -
![New York All Over]()
New York All Over
Painted in Paris, Blossoming, 1956, reveals Paul-Émile Borduas’s American style
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![Memory Blooms]()
Memory Blooms
Wild Flowers of Canada: Impressions and Sketches of a Field Artist (1978) is Molly Lamb Bobak’s illustrated autobiography
By Michelle Gewurtz -
![Harmonious Hues]()
Harmonious Hues
Rich colour and rising lines give Yves Gaucher’s Blue Raga, 1967, its tone and mood
By Roald Nasgaard -
![Self-Made]()
Self-Made
William Kurelek makes his intentions clear in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1950
By Andrew Kear -
![On the March]()
On the March
Alex Colville’s Infantry, Near Nijmegen, Holland, 1946, sets the stage for his later work
By Ray Cronin -
![A Patron’s Painting]()
A Patron’s Painting
Paul Kane created The Buffalo Pound, c.1846–1849, for Hudson’s Bay Company governor Sir George Simpson
By Arlene Gehmacher -
![Twisting Symbols]()
Twisting Symbols
Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau puts his own meaning into Self-Portrait Devoured by Demons, 1964
By Carmen Robertson -
![Super Heroes and City Lights]()
Super Heroes and City Lights
Harold Town’s Day Neon, 1953, mixes modern art and pop culture references
By Gerta Moray -
![A Gift for the Queen]()
A Gift for the Queen
When British royalty took notice of Homer Watson’s The Pioneer Mill, 1880, it launched his career with a subject that hit close to home
By Brian Foss -
![Colour as Subject]()
Colour as Subject
Pigment comes alive in Painters Eleven member Oscar Cahén’s Small Combo, c.1954
By Jaleen Grove -
![Learning to See]()
Learning to See
Critics at the time struggled to understand Paul-Émile Borduas’s Study for Torso or No. 14, 1942
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![Separated at Birth]()
Separated at Birth
Françoise Sullivan sees past and present in Portraits of People Who Resemble One Another, 1971
By Annie Gérin -
![The Ordinary made Extraordinary]()
The Ordinary made Extraordinary
With Doc Snyder’s House, 1931, Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald gave a modest house monumental presence
By Michael Parke-Taylor -
![Mythical Beasts of North America]()
Mythical Beasts of North America
Why Louis Nicolas depicted Unicorn of the Red Sea, n.d., in his seventeenth-century drawing of the new world
By François-Marc Gagnon -
![Stitching Activism into Art]()
Stitching Activism into Art
Joyce Wieland’s The Water Quilt, 1970–1971, comments on environmental fragility
By Johanne Sloan -
![Shattered Space]()
Shattered Space
Harold Town turns broken ornaments into dazzling abstraction in Silent Light No. 11, 1968–69
By Gerta Moray -
![Picturing Empire]()
Picturing Empire
Paul Kane paints the Hudson’s Bay Company fur trade in Fort Edmonton, c.1849–56
By Arlene Gehmacher -
![Healing Through Memory]()
Healing Through Memory
In Sandy Bay, 1998–99, Saulteaux artist Robert Houle conjures his past
By Shirley Madill -
![A Foreboding Family Reunion]()
A Foreboding Family Reunion
Impending dooms unsettles William Kurelek’s In the Autumn of Life, 1964
By Andrew Kear -
![In Isolation]()
In Isolation
Human suffering is Bertram Brooker’s subject in The Recluse, 1939
By James King -
![Spiritual Self-Portrait]()
Spiritual Self-Portrait
Norval Morrisseau charts his creative evolution in Man Changing into Thunderbird, 1977
By Carmen Robertson -
![Personal Hue]()
Personal Hue
Greg Curnoe takes his palette for a spin with Large Colour Wheel, 1980
By Judith Rodger -
![Ready to Play]()
Ready to Play
William Notman’s photograph St. Regis Lacrosse Club, 1867, documents a Mohawk team and a sport’s promotion
By Sarah Parsons -
![Old Methods, New Forms]()
Old Methods, New Forms
In Asagao, 1961, Montreal artist Yves Gaucher innovates in printmaking
By Roald Nasgaard -
![The Feline and the Future]()
The Feline and the Future
Alex Colville’s Black Cat, 1996, balances between the known and unknown
By Ray Cronin -
![An Artist Takes Flight]()
An Artist Takes Flight
Pitseolak Ashoona’s Untitled (Birds Flying Overhead), c.1966–67
By Christine Lalonde -
![Luminous Immersion]()
Luminous Immersion
Helen McNicoll’s The Little Worker, c.1907, connects viewers to its young subject
By Samantha Burton -
![Crafting Tradition]()
Crafting Tradition
Snowshoe Maker, by 19th-century Huron-Wendat artist Zacharie Vincent
By Louise Vigneault -
![A Change in Palette]()
A Change in Palette
Tom Thomson breaks free of convention in Cranberry Marsh, 1916
By David P. Silcox -
![Exquisite Abstraction]()
Exquisite Abstraction
In Nature Evolving, 1960, Jock Macdonald’s ideas about art come to life
By Joyce Zemans -
![Garden Sisters]()
Garden Sisters
Jean Paul Lemieux’s The Ursuline Nuns, 1951, is a portrait of traditional Quebec
By Michèle Grandbois -
![The Art of Confidence]()
The Art of Confidence
Paraskeva Clark’s Myself, 1933, signals a grand entrance into Canadian art
By Christine Boyanoski -
![Poodle Party]()
Poodle Party
General Idea’s Mondo Cane Kama Sutra, 1984, is a subversive take on representing queer identity
By Sarah E.K. Smith -
![Frieze Fantastic]()
Frieze Fantastic
Oscar Cahén’s Multi-part Mural for the Imperial Oil Executive Office Building, 1956, brought modernist style to corporate space
By Jaleen Grove -
![The Art of Looking]()
The Art of Looking
With his iconic painting To Prince Edward Island, 1965, Alex Colville explores ways that we see
By Ray Cronin -
![Ecstatic Vision]()
Ecstatic Vision
The crystalline forms of Kathleen Munn’s Descent from the Cross, c.1934–35, bring a traditional subject into the 20th century
By Georgiana Uhlyarik -
![Black for White and Dark for Light]()
Black for White and Dark for Light
Why Paul-Émile Borduas’s The Black Star, 1957, is an abstract masterpiece
By François-Marc Gagnon -
![Sacred Names]()
Sacred Names
Robert Houle reclaims Manitoba in Muhnedobe uhyahyuk (Where the gods are present), 1989
By Shirley Madill -
![In the Act of Looking]()
In the Act of Looking
Artful Edwardian tourists in Helen McNicoll’s Sunny September, 1913
By Samantha Burton -
![The Artist as an Old Man]()
The Artist as an Old Man
Jean Paul Lemieux’s Self-portrait, 1974, captures the artist’s feelings about the passage of time
By Michèle Grandbois -
![Apocalypse Ontario]()
Apocalypse Ontario
Satire, religion, and nuclear disaster combine in William Kurelek’s This Is the Nemesis, 1965
By Andrew Kear -
![Diving into Controversy]()
Diving into Controversy
With The Bather, 1930, Prudence Heward refused to idealize her female subject
By Julia Skelly -
![A Painter’s Last Painting]()
A Painter’s Last Painting
Yves Gaucher’s Yellow, Blue & Red IV (Jaune, bleu & rouge IV), 1999
By Roald Nasgaard -
![First and Last Image]()
First and Last Image
How William Notman’s photo Mrs. Hillard’s Dead Baby, 1868, lovingly documented loss
By Sarah Parsons -
![Elegy for an Art Critic]()
Elegy for an Art Critic
Harold Town pays homage with In Memory of Pearl McCarthy, 1964
By Gerta Moray -
![Lost at Sea]()
Lost at Sea
Joyce Wieland plays with drama and disaster in Boat Tragedy, 1964
By Johanne Sloan -
![Inside Looking Out]()
Inside Looking Out
The Little Plant, 1947, by Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald
By Michael Parke-Taylor -
![A Catalogue of Wonders]()
A Catalogue of Wonders
In drawings like Plants, Louis Nicolas recorded the early days of colonial contact in New France
By François-Marc Gagnon -
![Arctic Trails]()
Arctic Trails
Pitseolak Ashoona’s Summer Camp Scene, c.1974, encapsulates the season
By Christine Lalonde -
![Portrait of Controversy]()
Portrait of Controversy
Paul Kane’s Flat Head Woman and Child, Caw-wacham (c.1849–52)
By Arlene Gehmacher -
![Punch and Politics]()
Punch and Politics
The power of puppets in Paraskeva Clark’s Petroushka, 1937
By Christine Boyanoski -
![Running in the Family]()
Running in the Family
Zacharie Vincent’s Zacharie Vincent and His Son Cyprien, c.1851
By Louise Vigneault -
![Sublime Highway]()
Sublime Highway
The perceptual “wow moment” of Jack Chambers’s 401 Towards London No. 1, 1968–69
By Mark A. Cheetham -
![Artful Terror]()
Artful Terror
Creatures break free in Shuvinai Ashoona’s Composition (Attack of the Tentacle Monsters), 2015
By Nancy G. Campbell -
![New Frontier]()
New Frontier
Tongue in cheek, ink in hand, Greg Curnoe redraws borders in his Map of North America, 1972
By Judith Rodger -
![Kaleidoscope Grazing]()
Kaleidoscope Grazing
Kathleen Munn’s Cows on a Hillside, c.1916
By Georgiana Uhlyarik -
![Cosmic Inspiration]()
Cosmic Inspiration
Jock Macdonald’s Etheric Form, 1936
By Joyce Zemans -
![Spiritual Awakening]()
Spiritual Awakening
Norval Morrisseau’s Observations of the Astral World, c.1994
By Carmen Robertson -
![Eye of the Storm]()
Eye of the Storm
Tom Thomson’s Approaching Snowstorm, 1915, captures nature’s fury
By David P. Silcox -
![Independent Spirits]()
Independent Spirits
Prudence Heward’s At the Theatre documents new female freedom
By Julia Skelly -
![Cover Story]()
Cover Story
Oscar Cahén’s Maclean’s illustration, 1952, satirizes Canadian art
By Jaleen Grove -
![Wholesome Taboo]()
Wholesome Taboo
General Idea’s Nazi Milk, 1979
By Sarah E.K. Smith
One of the 5 Greatest Films
Turbulent Force
The Artist in Action
A Dynamic Contribution
Art and Commerce
A Haunting Figure
A Defiant Gaze
A Passion for Activism
Starvation and Scandal
Tundra Landscape
An age of perfect happiness
Inside and Out
A Window to the Past
A Lunar Vision
Life on Ice
An Artistic Breakthrough
Between Worlds
The Artist’s Muse
Secret Revealed
Otherworldly Waters
A Spontaneous Style
Abstract Harmony
A Multilayered Monochrome
Building a Reputation
Mysteries of the Mind
Flying High
Fired Up
A Momentous Meeting
Working from Home
Power, Myth, and Politics
Approaching Totality
A Force of Nature
Heroic Hues
Beautiful Beasts
Dynamic New Beauty
Wind and Rain
No Way In
Ticker-tape and Tragedy
Portrait of Vulnerability
Seasonal Abundance
Winter Pageantry
Mystical Harmony
On Equal Ground
His Sign of the Times
Classically Modern
A Lively Tussle
A New Way of Painting
The Great Canadian Escape
Beyond the Horizons
Save the Seals
The Spiritual Landscape
A Painter of Doon
Suspended Moments
By Habitat and Size
Forms in Flight
Repainting History
Sculpting in Paint
A Study in Harmony
An Arcadian Canada
Graphic Aftermath
Mouthing the Words
Personal Myth
Wrapped in Tradition
Racing Colours
The Artist’s Reflection
Echoes of the Divine
New York All Over
Memory Blooms
Harmonious Hues
Self-Made
On the March
A Patron’s Painting
Twisting Symbols
Super Heroes and City Lights
A Gift for the Queen
Colour as Subject
Learning to See
Separated at Birth
The Ordinary made Extraordinary
Mythical Beasts of North America
Stitching Activism into Art
Shattered Space
Picturing Empire
Healing Through Memory
A Foreboding Family Reunion
In Isolation
Spiritual Self-Portrait
Personal Hue
Ready to Play
Old Methods, New Forms
The Feline and the Future
An Artist Takes Flight
Luminous Immersion
Crafting Tradition
A Change in Palette
Exquisite Abstraction
Garden Sisters
The Art of Confidence
Poodle Party
Frieze Fantastic
The Art of Looking
Ecstatic Vision
Black for White and Dark for Light
Sacred Names
In the Act of Looking
The Artist as an Old Man
Apocalypse Ontario
Diving into Controversy
A Painter’s Last Painting
First and Last Image
Elegy for an Art Critic
Lost at Sea
Inside Looking Out
A Catalogue of Wonders
Arctic Trails
Portrait of Controversy
Punch and Politics
Running in the Family
Sublime Highway
Artful Terror
New Frontier
Kaleidoscope Grazing
Cosmic Inspiration
Spiritual Awakening
Eye of the Storm
Independent Spirits
Cover Story
Wholesome Taboo
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