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...

After a delay of fully 6 weeks, we are thrilled to announce that a highly important selection of artwork from The Collection of Mitzi & Mel Dobrin is available for your viewing and purchase in person at our Montreal and Toronto galleries.

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Reopening is perhaps a misnomer. Throughout the past several weeks, while the doors were closed, the portal at Klinkhoff.ca has remained open 24/7. Due to the investments in our digital platform and the support Jonathan, Craig and I offer from our home offices, it has never been easier for you...

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.

On May 7, 1920, the first exhibition of the Group of Seven opened at the Art Museum of Toronto (today the Art Gallery of Ontario). On May 7, 2020 we will celebrate the centenary with a dedicated presentation including for sale an outstanding selection of more than 30 paintings by...

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.

Since it's earliest days, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) has historically had a large footprint in the development of art in Canada. It is precisely and exclusively the CPR’s concept of promoting business in their hotels by organizing music and craft festivals that brought Arthur Lismer to the Rockies in...

Tom Thomson’s oil sketches were almost all painted in front of the motif and worked up into canvases during the winter in Toronto. The change of scale between the small sketch and large canvas posed new challenges and as sketches fed his canvases, the painting of the canvases also brought...

Emily Carr was one of Canada’s most innovative artists of the first half of the twentieth century. After periods of study in San Francisco, England and France, in 1912 Carr made a major trip to Alert Bay, the Skeena River and Haida Gwaii visiting Kwakwaka’wakw, Gitxsan and Haida villages. The...

If we compare Tribute to Tom Thomson with Thomson’s masterpiece The Jack Pine, we can see there is much that is similar. It is one artist's rendition of what there was about The Jack Pine that he admired. He chose to select the time of day as late afternoon or...

Our galleries are closed, but you can experience this remarkable collection online with our new immersive virtual tour. Sit back, relax and enjoy this collection from the comfort of your home. The tour is compatible with mobile devices, tablets, and virtual reality goggles.

Respecting the mandated health protocols and to protect our community, our physical galleries are closed. This closure implies the cancellation of our Montreal gallery vernissage and exhibition of The Collection of Mitzi & Mel Dobrin.

In spite of his all too brief career (approximately five years), Tom Thomson’s paintings left an indelible mark on Canadian art of the first half of the twentieth century. The remarkable history of his life and early death and the myths that developed around him inspired a whole generation of...

Images of the installation of the Collection of Mitzi and Mel Dobrin at Alan Klinkhoff Gallery in Toronto

My parents, Mitzi and Mel Dobrin, were a remarkable couple. Married 69 years, they were invariably together, be it on the golf course, tennis court or at their Laurentian retreat. While they both worked hard, they enjoyed life to the fullest – entertaining, travelling and involving themselves in community philanthropic...

The lovely pink house and leaning tree in the foreground frame the barns and sheds and the yellow and white houses on the left. The muddy road, still surrounded by the receding snow, is highlighted with pools of blue water. In the distance a wayside cross overlooks the distant white...

Mitzi and Mel Dobrin were important members of the Montreal community, part of the family that established and operated the Steinberg's supermarket chain in Quebec and Ontario, as well as noted philanthropists and art collectors.