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Klinkhoff in the news

A Raphael revival

09.07.1996 Klinkhoff in the news

ANN DUNCAN – Gazette Art Critic
THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL
September 7th, 1996
William Raphael (1833-1914) was the first Jewish professional artist in Canada. He was respected enough by his peers to have been appointed as a charter member of the Royal Canadian Academy, employed by William Notman’s photography studios and sought after as a teacher.
Raphael was also [...]

Lilias Newton: Portrait of the artist

09.09.1995 Klinkhoff in the news

Klinkhoff finds another undeservedly neglected talent
ANN DUNCAN – Gazette Art Critic
THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL
September 9, 1995
No more than a few dozen visual artists in Canada have the privilege of supporting themselves these days solely from selling their art.  Most  artist have to cobble together a living teaching of doing odd jobs.  And even then, Statistics Canada [...]

Klinkhoff: the art of the dealer

10.24.1994 Klinkhoff in the news

The Walter Klinkhoff Gallery will never sell you a ‘piece of rubbish’
ALAN D. GRAY – Special to the Gazette
THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL
Monday, October 24, 1994
As a favor to a hungry family friend in Austria, in the days following WWII, Walter Klinkhoff agreed to try and sell six of the man’s paintings on his return to Montreal.
In [...]

Here’s to you, Mr. Robinson

09.10.1994 Klinkhoff in the news

Klinkhoff Gallery pays well deserved tribute to undervalued master of Canadian painting
ANNE DUNCAN – Gazette Art Critic
THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL
Saturday, September 10, 1994
Albert H. Robinson (1881-1956) was the sort of artist who was invited to participate in the Group of Seven’s first collective exhibition in l920.
He was even asked to join the Group, an offer that [...]

Teaching takes precedence over selling at Klinkhoff show

09.18.1993 Klinkhoff in the news

ANN DUNCAN
The Gazette, Montreal
September 18, 1993 – p. J5
Every September for the past two decades or so, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff does something unheard of in the world of commercial galleries: it puts on a museum-quality exhibition in which absolutely nothing is for sale.
The idea behind these retrospective exhibitions is to take a look at a [...]

Galerie Klinkhoff honours Anne Savage

09.12.1992 Klinkhoff in the news

Retrospective designed to attract people unlikely to visit an art gallery
ANN DUNCAN
THE GAZETTE
Saturday, September 12, 1992
Each fall for the past 20 years, the Galerie Walter Klinkhoff has done something that is truly exceptional for a commercial gallery. It organizes a museum-quality exhibition at its own expense – there are no government handouts here – [...]

Klinkhoff honours overlooked painter

09.12.1991 Klinkhoff in the news

Montrealer Robertson deserved a better fate
ANN DUNCAN – Gazette Art Critic
THE GAZETTE
Saturday, September 12, 1991
Montreal painter Sarah Robertson has all but fallen through the cracks of history.
After all, it has been 40 years since she was accorder her only solo exhibition. Organized by the National Gallery of Canada, it took place three years after [...]

Landscape with Family

11.01.1989 Klinkhoff in the news

Art is a tradition for the Klinkhoffs
LAWRENCE SABBATH
MONTREAL MAGAZINE
November 1989
Walter Klinkhoff, doyen of Montreal’s commercial art galleries, tells the story of a phone call from business tycoon E.P. Taylor: “Can you remove the office portraits of my predecessors and replace them with good Canadian paintings? Nothing too expensive. I know horses and nothing about art, [...]

Mabel Lockerby retrospective

09.13.1989 Klinkhoff in the news

Work of forgotten artist resurfaces in exhibition
ANN DUNCAN
THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL
Wednesday, September 13, 1989
Every year for almost two decades, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff has organized an exhibition that earns its owners no money and costs thousands of dollars to mount.
The tradition was began to develop interest in a Quebec painter who many otherwise have been overlooked.  This [...]

Coburn collection: Looking back on winters past

09.13.1986 Klinkhoff in the news

Painter’s work evokes feelings of yesteryear
LAWRENCE SABBATH, Special to The Gazette
The Gazette. Montreal
Sep 13, 1986. p. C5
Like many of his contemporaries, Canadian painter Frederick Simpson Coburn (1871-1960) listened to the beat of the drum inside him, so his oeuvre reflects little, if anything, of the art movements that revolutionized 20th-century and late 19th-century art.
Coburn, the [...]

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