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A selection of quotations — plucked from an array of sources to include comments from contemporaries and students of Maurice Cullen, art critics, and established scholars — are examples of the consistent praise that Cullen receives for his tenacity of colour, inimitable style of painting, and for his integral role...

Celebrating the centenary of the Armistice, we reflect on Canada’s involvement in the recapture of Hill 70 and the subsidiary attacks on the French city of Lens during World War I. Alan Klinkhoff Gallery is proud to have facilitated the sale of an ink sketch by Augustus John for his...

Alan Klinkhoff reflects on Molly Lamb Bobak's career and her role as a Canadian military artist in the Second World War. Bobak was the first female Canadian war artist. During her career in the Canadian Women's Army Corps, Bobak began a journal in which she depicted her military training as...

Franklin Arbuckle, “Archie” as he was addressed by friends, created a body of work over a career spanning 65 years. In the path of the Group of Seven, Archie painted Canada, east to west and north to south, beginning about the time the Group evolved into the larger Canadian Group...

Not to be missed in our Yorkville and Montreal galleries and at klinkhoff.ca is an outstanding selection of Classic Canadian art, from Cornelius Krieghoff & Maurice Cullen to Paul-Émile Borduas & Léon Bellefleur.

Read more about this re-discovered and exceptional James Wilson Morrice 'pochade', sold by Alan Klinkhoff Gallery. Description by Lucie Dorais, author of the James Wilson Morrice Catallgue Raisonne.

A look at a carved and painted linoleum panel by Fritz Brandtner and how this support served to complement the artist’s abstract and Cubist aesthetic as well as his interest in depicting modern industry.

Here are five of among the most memorable sales the Klinkhoffs have sold to prominent public collections and their significance to each collection.

In 1906, Clapp spent almost a year at Chezy-sur-Marne creating “his first body of Impressionist canvases” (Duval, 72). The location proved an idyllic location for his studies of light. At first sight, Chézy, Valley of the Marne recalls works like Les Meules à Giverny from Claude Monet’s iconic series of...

Paris , Venice, Brittany, then exotic places in North Africa or the West Indies: these were “painting places”, what we expect to see. Often a town, big or small, but never far from the water; so such a simple, pure landscape is rather rare, except for the early years of...

“I believe the export controls continue to do much disservice to the interest they were designed to protect.' (Walter Klinkhoff, Reminiscences of an Art Dealer, 1994, p. 26). Having been a major and distinguished participant in the art dealing trade in Canada for more than four decades, in 1994 my...

Careful draughtsmanship and a profound knowledge of the clean modernist aesthetic led Edwin Holgate to be a central figure in the development of Canadian art in the 1920s and 1930s and to be what the National Gallery calls 'instrumental in the revival of woodblock printing.' Holgate recognized the capacity of...

Unpublished and not seen in public since acquired from Carr by Dr. Max Stern of the Dominion Gallery in August 1944, Totems, Tanoo is in exceptional condition, its colour and vivacity as fresh as the day Carr painted it. Emily Carr 1871-1945, Totems, Tanoo 1912, watercolour on paper 29 ½...

Tom Forrestall, while in Toronto to attend his important exhibition at Mira Godard Gallery, stopped by Alan Klinkhoff Gallery.

In a society ravaged by the Great Depression and war, Fritz Brandtner sought to address contemporary social issues like poverty and health care in this important cubist-inspired composition.

The Green Necklace (1938), provides a rare case study of orientalist genre painting in Canada, helping to answer the question, what might orientalism look like in Canada?

During a sketching tour to northern Georgian Bay in September 1931, MacDonald painted Poplar Point, Sturgeon Bay. Using an open and fluid brush, his late summer painting depicts a rugged shoreline punctuated by a cluster of poplar trees. With an isolated foreground of trees on a rocky outcrop, a middleground...

Alan Klinkhoff Gallery is pleased to share with fellow art enthusiasts our research into a particularly fine Edwin Holgate painting and accompanying drawing, which we offered for sale.

Read about an extremely rare Morrice painting of Montreal, sold by Alan Klinkhoff Gallery. Text by Lucie Dorais, author of the James Wilson Morrice Catalogue Raisonne.