The Montship Collection (formerly Montreal Shipping)

Many of Adrien Hébert’s most sought after paintings are his compositions of the port of Montreal, painted in the 1920s. On Hébert’s works that depict the port as their subject, scholar Esther Trépanier wrote: “When he first began depicting the port, it had been just acclaimed the fourth year running as the world’s largest exporter of grain. [...] The port of Montreal, with its connection to a vast railway network, had become Canada’s main transport hub, rivalling America’s greatest Atlantic ports. Like the huge steel-hulled...

The Foundation Josephine is an outstanding painting by Jack L. Gray who is among the foremost maritime artists in North America of the post WWII era. The tug boat Foundation Josephine was one of the kind of marine wreck salvage vessels that has become legend in the writings of Farley Mowat’s 'The Serpent's Coil'; “‘She wasn't no boat at all by then,’ a mariner on the sea-rescue tug called the Foundation Josephine recalls -- ‘she was a bloody airplane what couldn't quite take off. I...