Walter Klinkhoff, doyen of Montreal’s commercial art galleries, tells the story of a phone call from business tycoon E.P. Taylor: 'Can you remove the office portraits of my predecessors and replace them with good Canadian paintings? Nothing too expensive. I know horses and nothing about art, and you know everything...

Every year for almost two decades, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff has organized an exhibition that earns its owners no money and costs thousands of dollars to mount. The tradition was began to develop interest in a Quebec painter who many otherwise have been overlooked. This year's exhibition, which continues until Sept....

Like many of his contemporaries, Canadian painter Frederick Simpson Coburn (1871-1960) listened to the beat of the drum inside him, so his oeuvre reflects little, if anything, of the art movements that revolutionized 20th-century and late 19th-century art. Coburn, the subject of a retrospective at Galerie Walter Klinkhoff (1200 Sherbrooke...

The 82-year-old woman, handicapped since childhood, has left to posterity one of the finest testaments to the joy of Canadian life. Her love affair is declared with every bold brush stroke. The happiness and joie de vivre is brought is told with each robust splash of colour. From looking at...

A long lost painting by noted Canadian artist Cornelius Krieghoff bought by a New Zealand coal miner last year for $200, was sold at auction here last night for $27,000. The buyer, Walter Klinkhoff of Montreal, said delightedly after the auction that the 13th has always been his lucky day....