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Klinkhoff in the news
09.25.2004
Klinkhoff in the news
Philip Surrey, at his best, presents a paradoxical, mystifying mixture of banality turning into violence
HENRY LEHMANN
THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL
Sep 25, 2004 – p. H2
Montreal painter Philip Surrey (1910-1990) is best known for his nocturnal scenes – at least by those relatively few members of the general public who have heard of Surrey at all.
With the recent [...]
09.22.2001
Klinkhoff in the news
David Milne paintings at Klinkhoff Gallery
HENRY LEHMANN – Special to The Gazette
THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL
September 22, 2001
The most delightful show now in town is David Milne (1882-1953) Retrospective Exhibition. This gem is the latest in Galerie Walter Klinkhoff’s commendable series of not for sale exhibitions that have featured , among others, Maurice Cullen and Marc-Aurele de [...]
09.23.2000
Klinkhoff in the news
HENRY LEHMANN
THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL
September 23, 2000
In the context of contemporary art, the work of Maurice Cullen (1866-1934) might seem incredibly conservative. Yet, in his time, the late 19th and a chunk of the 20th century, his work was quite radical. Cullen’s vision of reality was especially far out in a Canada still under the pall [...]
09.15.2000
Klinkhoff in the news
ARTSEEN
By Bernard Mendelman
September, 2000
When a major touring retrospective for Maurice Cullen was not shown in Montreal because the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts was closed for renovation, the late Walter Klinkhoff in September 1974 undertook the task of presenting his own show of Cullen’s art. His son Eric said, “My father did this because [...]
12.16.1999
Klinkhoff in the news
SHELDON KIRSHNER
CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS
Dec 16, 1999. Vol. 29, Iss. 49, p. 11
As a young, aspiring reporter in Montreal in 1964, one of my first stories was about Sam Borenstein, the iconoclastic painter.
After the piece appeared in the Westward News, the now-defunct weekly owned and edited by a rambunctious Irishman named John O’Meara, Borenstein gratefully gave [...]
09.12.1998
Klinkhoff in the news
A gallery founder’s sons pay homage to his memory, offering a rare, impressive look at Montreal’s past
DOROTA KOZINSKA – Special to the Gazette
THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL
Saturday, September 12, 1998
“Our todays and yesterdays are the blocks with which we build,” the poet Longfellow wrote. For Walter Klinkhoff, founder of one of the oldest art galleries in [...]
09.09.1998
Klinkhoff in the news
BERNARD MENDELMAN
THE SUBURBAN
Wednesday, September 9, 1998
“This is our tribute to dad”, commented Alan Klinkhoff on Homage to Walter Klinkhoff, Part 1. Alan and his brother Eric have selected about 25 exceptional pieces, prior to 1950, that are amongst the cream of Canadian art. They were chosen from deceased artists their father personally knew or made [...]
11.15.1997
Klinkhoff in the news
BERNARD MENDELMAN
THE SUBURBAN
November 1997
Returning from a brief vacation, I was saddened to learn of the death of Walter Klinkhoff, the founder of the prestigious art gallery, bearing his name, on Sherbrooke near Drummond. Mr. Klinkhoff, a long-time resident of Hampstead, originally an engineer, started selling art in 1949, from a second floor duplex on Van [...]
11.11.1997
Klinkhoff in the news
HENRY LEHMANN – Special to The Gazette
THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL
November 11, 1997
Walter Klinkhoff, who died last Friday at the age of 78, left his indelible mark on the city he loved, Montreal.
The gallery that bears its founder’s name lives on, one of Montreal’s oldest, having outlived numerous other art spaces and countless trends. The Klinkhoff, which [...]
09.06.1997
Klinkhoff in the news
Klinkhoff Gallery’s annual non-sale show pays tribute to Canadian master
DOROTA KOZINSKA
THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL
Sep 6, 1997 – p. K.2
The story goes something like this: During a 1966 exhibition of his works, AY Jackson, the great Canadian painter and founding member of the Group of Seven, who loved to talk about his work, stood next to one [...]
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