Philip Surrey, at his best, presents a paradoxical, mystifying mixture of banality turning into violence HENRY LEHMANN THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL Sep 25, 2004 - p. H2 Montreal painter Philip Surrey (1910-1990) is best known for his nocturnal scenes - at least by those relatively few members of the general public...

In the context of contemporary art, the work of Maurice Cullen (1866-1934) might seem incredibly conservative. Yet, in his time, the late 19th and a chunk of the 20th century, his work was quite radical. Cullen’s vision of reality was especially far out in a Canada still under the...

When a major touring retrospective for Maurice Cullen was not shown in Montreal because the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts was closed for renovation, the late Walter Klinkhoff in September 1974 undertook the task of presenting his own show of Cullen's art. His son Eric said, 'My father did this...

As a young, aspiring reporter in Montreal in 1964, one of my first stories was about Sam Borenstein , the iconoclastic painter. After the piece appeared in the Westward News, the now-defunct weekly owned and edited by a rambunctious Irishman named John O'Meara, Borenstein gratefully gave me a print of...

A gallery founder’s sons pay homage to his memory, offering a rare, impressive look at Montreal’s past. BY DOROTA KOZINSKA - Special to the Gazette THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL Saturday, September 12, 1998 'Our todays and yesterdays are the blocks with which we build,' the poet Longfellow wrote. For Walter Klinkhoff,...