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Old Masters, Impressionists & Moderns
Post-War & Contemporary Artists Page
For over 60 years Galerie Walter Klinkhoff has specialized in the purchase and sale of fine art by important Canadian artists, including the following selection. To see a complete index, click here.
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William Brymner was born in Greenock, Scotland in 1855. He was the son of Douglas Brymner, the first Dominion Archivist, and Jean Thomson....
William Brymner artist page
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Franklin Carmichael (May 4, 1890 – Oct. 24, 1945), a Canadian artist, was born to Scottish parents in Orillia, Ontario. He studied at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto with William Cruickshank and George Reid, then at the Toronto Technical School with Gustav Hahn…
Franklin Carmichael artist page
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No one, perhaps, embodied a pioneering spirit more than Emily Carr. Her solitary and eccentric existence is the stuff of legends. To reduce her to a symbol would be to do a disservice to a great artist, and a fiercely independent being, whose work transcended time, gender, and national image making…
Emily Carr artist page
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Born in Toronto in 1898, A.J. Casson is best known for his depictions of landscapes, forests and farms in southern Ontario. He first studied art at Ryerson School, then at the Hamilton Technical School after his family moved to Hamilton, Ontario…
A.J. Casson artist page
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William Henry Clapp artist page
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Frederick Simpson Coburn’s paintings of horses hauling logs through snowy woodlands, and bright red sleighs down sunny country roads captured the spirit of an ear. Since the late 1920s his winter scenes have appeared regularly on Christmas cards and calendars because, as one collector remarked, “The title of his canvas is ‘Canada’.”…
Frederick Simpson Coburn artist page
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Assuredly the most reclusive member of the Beaver Hall Group, Emily lived with her family in Point St. Charles. Emily was the only one of the Group who was not a part of the Montreal Protestant elite. She was a devout Roman Catholic with strong opinions and of Irish heritage…
Emily Coonan artist page
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Maurice Galbraith Cullen was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland on June 6th, 1866. He was the only child of James Francis Cullen, a metal worker from Torbay, who had met his wife, Sarah Ward, on a visit to Montreal. They married there at St. Patrick’s Church on the 8th of August, 1865…
Maurice Cullen artist page
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Marc-Aurèle Fortin was amongst the first Canadian artists I visited regularly. He was living with his wife at the time, the mid fifties, in a house on St. Urbain Street near Laurier and he lived in a truly bohemian style. Nothing seemed to have ever been dusted and it was impossible to find a place to sit down…
Marc-Aurèle Fortin artist page
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Painter, engraver, and illustrator, Clarence Gagnon was born in Montreal November 8, 1881. From 1897 to 1900, he studied drawing and painting under William Brymner at the Art Association of Montreal....
Clarence Gagnon artist page
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Lawren Stewart Harris was born October 23, 1885 in Brantford, Ontario. He was a key figure in the creation of the Group of Seven, also a founding member and first president of the Canadian Group of Painters. …
Lawren Harris artist page
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Prudence Heward and her contemporaries began to paint when the international world of art was in ferment. In the nineteen twenties it was possible to observe and absorb a great variety in artistic style. Young Canadian artists were eagerly analyzing the work of the moderns and struggling to free themselves from academic rigidity. …
Prudence Heward artist page
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Randolph Stanley Hewton was born at Megantic, Quebec in 1888. At an early age his parents moved to Lachine near Montreal. His father became rector of St. Paul’s Church, to help his finances he also conducted a private school. …
Randolph Hewton artist page
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Frederick William Hutchison was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1871. He studied at the Art Association School of Montreal under William Brymner; at the Chase School in New York City under William Chase, and in Paris at the Julian Academy...
Frederick W. Hutchison artist page
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AY Jackson ends his memoirs, “A Painter’s Country”, with his move away from the famous Studio Building that Harris had built for the use of his artist friends in Toronto. He built a comfortable little house on a hill at Manotick, a few miles south of Ottawa, close to where his niece Geneva was living. …
A.Y. Jackson artist page
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Cornelius Krieghoff was perhaps the finest Canadian artist to describe Quebec life in the mid-nineteenth century. Born in Holland in 1815 and growing up in Bavaria, he sailed for North America in 1837, where he joined the U.S. Army and, apparently, was dispatched to a group fighting the Seminole Wars in Florida. …
Cornelius Krieghoff artist page
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Arthur Lismer was a world-renowned authority on children’s art and a great teacher. He also was a superb and very original artist and had been one of the founder members of Canada’s foremost art movement “The Group of Seven”. …
Arthur Lismer artist page
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Mabel Irene Lockerby was born in Montreal on March 13, 1882 – not 1887, as cited by MacDonald and other authorities. The error was due to the artist herself, who dismissed the five unwanted years when composing her curriculum vitae. ...
Mabel Lockerby artist page
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John Lyman was both a modern Canadian artist of enormous importance and a highly influential figure in the promotion of modernism among the artistic community in Quebec. Born to American parents in Biddeford, Maine in 1886 his father had already become a Canadian and was living in Montreal. He abandoned university after a couple of years at McGill and shortly thereafter chose to study art in Paris as well as in London…
John Lyman artist page
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James Edward Hervey MacDonald was a founding member of the Group of Seven. He was a member of the Ontario Society of Artists, the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts, and was active in the Arts and Letters Club, Toronto....
J.E.H. MacDonald artist page
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Pegi Nicol MacLeod was born in Listowel, Ontario in 1904. She studied under Franklin Brownell at the Ottawa Art Association, then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, where she met her lifelong friend, Marion Scott…
Pegi Nicol MacLeod artist page
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Henrietta Mabel May was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1977. She studied with William Brymner at the Art Association of Montreal from 1909-1912. …
H. Mabel May artist page
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Milne (1882-1953) was born in rural Ontario, the sixth and youngest child, surrounded by four older brothers and a sister. The Milnes lived a frugal existence from the produce of a small market garden and a home laundry. For all accounts, Milne was drawn to art at a very early age, an interest that was later revived while he was teaching. …
David Milne artist page
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James Wilson Morrice was born in Montreal in 1865, the son of a wealthy merchant. From 1882 to 1889, he studied in Toronto to become a lawyer. As a student he began to paint landscapes in the Adirondacks and…
James Wilson Morrice artist page
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Kathleen Moir Morris (1893-1986) is best known as a member of Montreal’s Beaver Hall Group, where she became part of a tightly knit community of women painters who chose art as their career, an audacious move in days when artistic pursuits were primarily a male occupation. …
Kathleen Morris artist page
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In many ways the story of Lilias Torrance Newton – portrait painter, art teacher, abandoned wife, and mother – reads like a story of the 1990s. But what seems banal today was exceptional sixty years ago when divorce was frowned upon and married women were not expected to work outside the home. …
Lilias Torrance Newton artist page
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In those exciting early years, I may first have met Robert Pilot through his fellow members of the Royal Canadian Academy, from whom I soon began to acquire paintings. Indeed, it is also just possible that the artist may have known of me and of my ambitions through a friend whose brother was married to Mrs. Pilot’s twin sister. Be that as it may, Pilot soon showed me considerable kindness and encouragement....
Robert Pilot artist page
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On November 3, 1951, the Sarah Robertson Memorial Exhibition opened at the National Gallery of Canada. As Sarah’s friends admired the paintings, fifty-four oils and one watercolour, they must have rejoiced that the artist had finally received the recognition she deserved. …
Sarah Robertson artist page
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Albert Robinson was born in 1881 in Hamilton, Ontario. Initially self taught, he obtained his first art-related job one summer after high school, Chief Illustrator at the Hamilton Times which payed him $5 a week as. By 1903 Robinson had saved enough to continue his schooling overseas. That year he moved to Paris where he studied at the Académie Julian and subsequently at the École des Beaux-Arts under Gabriel Ferrier. …
Albert H. Robinson artist page
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Savage was born into an upper-middle-class family at the end of the Victorian era. In this social milieu, women were encouraged to practice their talents within the family circle; and yet as McDougall and Braide have shown, Savage had a professional career. What prompted Savage to become a professional artist? What role models did she have? And how did she manage to combine the two careers of artists and teacher? …
Anne Savage artist page
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For over sixty years, Ethel Seath (1879-1963) was a familiar figure on the Montreal art scene. Selfless, earnest, and sincere, she was a pioneer among the artistic women of her generation. She implicitly challenged the conventions of Victorian propriety with a soft-spoken but resilient independence. …
Ethel Seath artist page
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Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté was a successful painter, sculptor and church decorator. Born in Arthabaska, Quebec on April 5, 1869, Suzor-Coté’s success was due to his exceptional talent, his outgoing personality, as well as his favorable circumstances. …
Marc-Aurèle Suzor-Coté artist page
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Tom Thomson was closely associated with the artists of the Group of Seven, but not a member. He was born in Claremont, Ontario (near Owen Sound) August 5, 1877. Sixth of ten children, Thomson was brought up in a creative family. He played both the violin and the mandolin, and he could draw and paint. …
Tom Thomson artist page
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Frederick A. Verner artist page
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