BERNARD MENDELMAN THE SUBURBAN Wednesday, September 9, 1998 'This is our tribute to dad', commented Alan Klinkhoff on Homage to Walter Klinkhoff, Part 1. Alan and his brother Eric have selected about 25 exceptional pieces, prior to 1950, that are amongst the cream of Canadian art. They were chosen from...

Returning from a brief vacation, I was saddened to learn of the death of Walter Klinkhoff, the founder of the prestigious art gallery, bearing his name, on Sherbrooke near Drummond. Mr. Klinkhoff, a long-time resident of Hampstead, originally an engineer, started selling art in 1949, from a second floor duplex...

Walter Klinkhoff, who died last Friday at the age of 78, left his indelible mark on the city he loved, Montreal. The gallery that bears its founder’s name lives on, one of Montreal’s oldest, having outlived numerous other art spaces and countless trends. The Klinkhoff, which focuses largely on Canadian...

The story goes something like this: During a 1966 exhibition of his works, AY Jackson , the great Canadian painter and founding member of the Group of Seven , who loved to talk about his work, stood next to one of his paintings surrounded by an adoring crowd, which was...

William Raphael (1833-1914) was the first Jewish professional artist in Canada. He was respected enough by his peers to have been appointed as a charter member of the Royal Canadian Academy, employed by William Notman's photography studios and sought after as a teacher. Raphael was also considered a significant enough...