A.Y. Jackson ends his memoirs, A Painter's Country, with his move away from the famous Studio Building that Lawren Harris had built for the use of his artist friends in Toronto. A.Y. built a comfortable little house on a hill at Manotick, a few miles south of Ottawa, close to...

Our intentions here are to offer our ideas as to areas of study we think pertinent to a larger study of Philip Surrey, optimistically by a team of trained art historians. Our contribution is a personal one, written from the perspective of one who was acquainted with Philip Surrey, visited...

I never met LAWREN HARRIS. His wife Bess had taken charge of his business affairs although all his paintings had been incorporated in a trust for the benefit of his sons from his first wife.

In 1947, Fred Taylor was living on Oxenden, a street renamed as Aylmer, located not a great distance from Inspector St. Taylor was of a social and political consciousness. It is significant that in this work, he highlights three tiers of society; the working citizens, the power and influence of...

These important works, represented herein, represent a mature evolution of Lismer’s focus beginning some time after his return from west Africa in 1935. It is due to the generosity of Mom and Dad that Helen and I have three Lismer canvases in our home.