Sandra Paikowsky is a Professor Emeritus in the Art History Department of Concordia University. She was the Director/Curator of the Concordia Art Gallery for from 1981 to 1992. Beginning in 1974, she was the co-founder and then the Editor and Publisher of the Journal of Canadian Art History for over 35 years. She is also the First Distinguished Fellow of the Yarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia. The most recent of her numerous publications include texts on Montreal women abstract painters, modernism in Canadian representational art and paintings of Venice by James Wilson Morrice.