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The only exhibition and catalogue John Little has authorized since his last one man show at Continental Galleries more than 30 years ago.

Artist John Little had been telling and preserving the story of selected neighbourhoods, often “unselfconscious” ones, drawing and then composing them on canvas from the early 1950s.

Although John Little’s painting places are primarily the neighbourhoods of Montreal and Québec City, they serve as an allegory for the neighbourhoods throughout North America failed by the forces of post-WWll suburbanization and the ensuing bulldozer approach to urban renewal prevalent from 1950 through the mid 1970s.

Little is a Canadian original in a narrative sometimes broached by Americans Reginald Marsh, Edward Hopper and John Sloan.  We are inclined to consider John Little as the Jane Jacobs of Canadian painting.