Harris painted in Algoma every year from 1918 to 1921, new travelling arrangements being made in 1919. 'The Algoma Central converted an old box-car into suitable living quarters, put in a few windows, four bunks, a stove, water tanks, sink, cupboard, two benches, and a table. We carried a one-man...

From correspondence, we know Harris painted around Banff in 1926 and around Lake Louise in 1928, yet there is little contemporary documentation about Harris’ trips to the Rockies after 1924. Nonetheless, it is clear from the volume of mountain paintings he exhibited in the late twenties that he frequently returned...

The first subjects Lawren Harris painted following his return from Germany in 1908 were street scenes in the older areas of Toronto. Harris explained that in his painting of Georgian houses, A Row of Houses, Wellington Street of 1910, “the endeavor was to depict the clear, hard sunlight of a...

LAWREN S. HARRIS, C.C., LL.D. (1885-1970) Sun, Fog and Ice, Smith Sound (Arctic Painting IV) , 1931 Oil on canvas 40 x 50 in. (101.6 x 127 cm.) Inscriptions: verso: top stretcher bar: in ink, by artist, “SUN, FOG AND ICE / SMITH 3865SOUND” / LAWREN HARRIS / 25...

It is not clear which of the two canvases, both identical in size, was shown in the April 1930 Group of Seven exhibition as Mountains, Moraine Lake, Alberta but they differ considerably. In both canvases the mountains, identified by Lisa Christensen, author of A Hiker’s Guide to the Rocky Mountain...

Beware of vendors who offer works of art without the current expertise and use only old labels of reputable galleries to support authenticity. NB. It appears that there is a fellow working primarily but not exclusively in the Toronto area who is affixing labels purportedly of reputable art galleries to...

Alan Klinkhoff, president of Alan Klinkhoff Gallery, describes some of the landmark Lawren S. Harris paintings featured in our historic April 1 sale.

Lawren Harris & Canadian Masters: Historic Sale Celebrating Canada’s 150 Years features 15 paintings by iconic artist Lawren Harris with a total value of over CAD$ 40 million. Fourteen of the Harrises, which have been in a single private collection for over 40 years, represent the most valuable single consignment...

From April 1, Alan Klinkhoff Gallery will present a historic sale of rare and important paintings by Lawren S. Harris and Canadian masters, including Clarence A. Gagnon, A.Y. Jackson, Frank H. Johnston, Jean Paul Lemieux, John Little, J.E.H. MacDonald, Kathleen Morris, Robert Pilot, Albert H. Robinson & more. Works are...

Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven were the most influential artists working in Canada in the first decades of the twentieth century. Their bold experimentation and engagement with Canada’s many landscapes were the tools to foster a uniquely Canadian art that would, in turn, further...

Lawren Harris' iconic painting, A Row of Houses, Wellington Street, 1910, is among the works featured in our April 1 sale, Lawren Harris & Canadian Masters: Historic Sale Celebrating Canada's 150 Years. In new research for Alan Klinkhoff Gallery to be published soon, Dr. Adamson describes A Row of Houses,...

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From April 1, Alan Klinkhoff Gallery will present a historic sale of rare and important paintings by Lawren S. Harris and Canadian masters, including Albert H. Robinson, J.E.H. MacDonald, Clarence Gagnon, A.Y. Jackson & others. Works are subject to prior sale.

Charles Gagnon stated, “The real content of a painting has nothing to do with what appears to be the painting…It’s whatever comes out of the process (of painting) which is important…The quality that transcends what we think life is, you know – what is left when nothing is left.”

Alan Klinkhoff Gallery presents an extraordinary selection of outstanding paintings by Albert H. Robinson and his contemporaries. The paintings, offered on behalf of the estate of a prominent Canadian art collector were acquired over the course of several decades and are of a superlative quality. This is an exceptional and...

Carving a long and distinguished career, William I.M. Turner Jr. made important contributions to the spheres of business, community services, education and the arts. He grew up in Toronto, where he earned first a degree in engineering from t he University of Toronto and then an MBA from Harvard Business...

Beginning November 26, Alan Klinkhoff Gallery will present an extraordinary selection of outstanding paintings by Albert H. Robinson and his contemporaries. The paintings, offered on behalf of the estate of a prominent Canadian art collector were acquired over the course of several decades and are of a superlative quality. This...

Alan Klinkhoff Gallery is pleased to announce that Sandra Paikowsky, celebrated Canadian art historian and authority on James Wilson Morrice's oeuvre in Venice, will offer a 90 minute lecture at the Toronto gallery.

Alan Klinkhoff Gallery is proud to announce a diverse program of events presented in our Montreal and Toronto galleries.