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...

No more than a few dozen visual artists in Canada have the privilege of supporting themselves these days solely from selling their art. Most artist have to cobble together a living teaching of doing odd jobs. And even then, Statistics Canada has shown that the average income of a visual...

As a favor to a hungry family friend in Austria, in the days following WWII, Walter Klinkhoff agreed to try and sell six of the man’s paintings on his return to Montreal. In short order Klinkhoff, a junior engineer at Canadian Liquid Air in Montreal, found an art dealer who...

Albert H. Robinson (1881-1956) was the sort of artist who was invited to participate in the Group of Seven ’s first collective exhibition in l920. He was even asked to join the Group, an offer that he turned down for philosophical reasons. He preferred to paint Quebec’s farms and villages...

Every September for the past two decades or so, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff does something unheard of in the world of commercial galleries: it puts on a museum-quality exhibition in which absolutely nothing is for sale. The idea behind these retrospective exhibitions is to take a look at a Quebec artist...