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...

Retrospective designed to attract people unlikely to visit an art gallery ANN DUNCAN THE GAZETTE Saturday, September 12, 1992 Each fall for the past 20 years, the Galerie Walter Klinkhoff has done something that is truly exceptional for a commercial gallery. It organizes a museum-quality exhibition at its own expense...

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...

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...