Availability: This item has been sold. Emily Carr 1871- 1945 In 1898 Carr made the first of several sketching and painting trips to aboriginal villages on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The following year Carr traveled to London where she studied at the Westminster School of Art. While on holiday to Alaska with her sister Alice in 1907, Carr again came into contact with indigenous peoples in the remote villages of the northwest coast and determined to use her art to document the sculptural and artistic legacy of the aboriginal people that she encountered. In 1910 Carr returned to Europe, this time to Paris to study. Influenced by the post-impressionists and the fauvists, Carr returned to British Columbia and exhibited her French paintings. In the summer of 1912 Carr again traveled north, to the Queen Charlotte Islands and the Skeena River. Over time Carr's work had come to the attention of several influential and supportive people, including Marius Barbeau, prominent ethnologist at the National Museum in Ottawa. Barbeau, in turn, persuaded Eric Brown, Director of Canada's National Gallery to visit Carr in 1927. Brown invited Carr to exhibit as part of an exhibition on West Coast aboriginal art at the National Gallery. Carr sent 26 oil paintings east, along with samples of her pottery and rugs with indigenous designs. The exhibit, which included works by Edwin Holgate and A.Y. Jackson traveled to Toronto and Montreal. The following spring Carr herself traveled east, timing her journey so that she would be able to meet members of the Group of Seven, at that time Canada's most recognized modern painters. This encounter was to change the direction of Carr's artistic life, reinvigorating her sense of purpose and ending the terrible artistic isolation of the previous 15 years. Lawren Harris became a particularly important support. Carr continued throughout the late 1920s and 1930s with trips away from Victoria. Her last trip north was in the summer of 1928, when she made a trip to the Nass and Skeena Rivers, as well as to the Queen Charlottes. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Emily Carr please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item is sold. Sybil Andrews is primarily known for her dynamic, modernist colour linocut prints. Trained in England, she began working in linocuts in the mid-1920s and exhibited regularly until 1939. She came to Canada in 1947, settling in Campbell River, British Columbia. If you are interested in buying or selling original colour prints or paintings by Sybil Andrews please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item has been sold. William Kurelek 1927-1977 The oldest of seven children in an Ukrainian immigrant family, during the Great Depression moved to Stonewall, Manitoba. He developed an early interest in art which was not encouraged by his hard-working parents. He later studied at the Ontario College of Art and at the Instituto Allende in Mexico. In 1952, suffering from depression and emotional problems he was admitted to the Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital in England. There he was treated for schizophrenia. In hospital he painted, producing "The Maze", a dark depiction of his tortured youth. Originally Ukrainian Orthodox, Kurelek converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1957 and later painted a series of 160 paintings on the Passion of Christ, and re-imagined the Nativity as if Christ had been born in a small Canadian town. While living in Toronto he produced a series of classic children's books including his own artwork. Kurelek's art and writing were influenced by his childhood on the prairies, his Ukrainian-Canadian roots and his Roman Catholicism. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by William Kurelek please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com

Availability: This item is sold. Robert Wakeham Pilot 1898-1967, stepson of painter Maurice CULLEN. Pilot's best pictures are views of the St Lawrence River, such as Quebec from Levis. He studied in Paris in the early 1920s, then returned to Montreal. He was elected associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1925, and was president from 1952 to 1954. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings Robert Pilot please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item has been sold. Arthur Lismer 1885-1969 Lismer attended the Sheffield School of Art in the evenings on a scholarship 1898-1905. In 1906 he studied at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Antwerp. He returned to Sheffield, where he worked in a commercial art studio before moving to Canada in January 1911. Hired at the commercial art firm Grip Limited, and later at Rous & Mann, in Toronto, he met fellow artists J.E.H. MacDonald, Franklin Carmichael, and Tom Thomson. In 1913 he went on his first painting trip to Georgian Bay with his wife, Esther, and their baby daughter, and in 1914 to Algonquin Park. In 1916 Lismer became principal of the Victoria School of Art and Design in Halifax. In 1919 he moved back to Toronto and became vice-principal of the Ontario College of Art. Lismer was a charter member of the Group of Seven, and joined his fellow artists on painting trips to the Algoma region and north shore of Lake Superior. In 1928 he painted in the Rockies and from 1930 in the Atlantic provinces. Lismer resigned from OCA in 1927 and became supervisor of education at the Art Gallery of Toronto. He became a leading figure in child art education working in Toronto, South Africa, New York, and Montreal, where he moved in 1940. He taught at the Art Association of Montreal from 1940 until 1967. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Arthur Lismer please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item has been sold. Alexander Young Jackson 1882-1974 A native of Montreal, Jackson studied with William Brymner at the Art Association of Montreal, at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1906, and with Jean-Paul Laurens at the Academie Julien, Paris, in 1907. He painted in Europe frequently between 1906 and 1912. It was his painting The Edge of the Maple Wood (1910) that brought him to the attention of J.E.H. MacDonald and, when it was bought by Lawren Harris, Jackson visited Toronto and met other members of the future Group of Seven. Dr. James MacCallum, co-financier with Harris of Canadas first purpose-built studio building, sponsored him for a year in 1914. Jackson lived and worked at the Studio Building in Toronto until 1955. He travelled in Canada throughout his career, sketching outdoors and painting in his Toronto studio. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by A.Y. Jackson please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item has been sold. Anne Douglas Savage 1896-1971 artist and teacher who made a significant impact on Canadian art and education. She was one of the first women to participate actively in the creation of a Canadian school of painting, and an early exponent of child art and creative teaching. Trained as a painter, and a self taught teacher. She was part of the vital Canadian art movements of the 30's and 40's, closely linked to The Group of Seven and was associated with Arthur Lismer. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Anne Savage please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item has been sold. Franz Johnston (Francis Hans Johnston, known as Franz or Frank ) 1888-1949. He studied during the evenings at the Central Technical School and the Ontario College of Art under William Cruikshank, Gustav Hahn, and G. A. Reid, while working as a commercial artist with Brigdens. In 1911 he worked at the commercial art firm Grip Limited in Toronto, where he met future Group of Seven members J.E.H. MacDonald, Arthur Lismer, and Franklin Carmichael. The following year, he went to Philadelphia to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and then worked with the design firm, Carleton Studios in New York, returning to Toronto in 1915. In May of 1920, a group of painters including Johnston exhibited as the Group of Seven for the first time at the Grange in Toronto and were hailed as developing a truly Canadian movement. In December 1920, Johnson mounted the first of many independent exhibitions at the Eaton's of Canada Gallery where the press praised his handling of light. In 1921 he moved to Winnipeg to become the Principal at the College of Art and Director of the Gallery until 1924 when he returned to Toronto to teach at the Ontario College of Art, the same year that his formal associations with the Group of Seven ended. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Franz Johnston please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item has been sold. Charles Fraser Comfort, 1900-1994 Moved to Winnipeg in 1912 with his family. The following year he began work as a commercial artist at Bridgens studio in Winnipeg, and by 1916 Comfort started attending evening classes at the Winnipeg School of Art. Comfort saved money to attend the Art Students League of New York under Robert Henri and Euphrasius Tucker. Still working part-time for Brigdens commercial studio, he was temporarily transferred to Toronto in 1919. While in Toronto, Comfort joined the Arts and Letters Club, taking life-study classes and meeting members of the Group of Seven. Comfort visited the Groups inaugural 1920 exhibition, which inspired Comfort to work on landscape paintings, a theme he continued throughout his lifetime. Comfort returned to Winnipeg in 1922 for his first exhibition of watercolours at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. During this time, he met LeMoine Fitzgerald and Walter J. Phillips. It was not until 1925 that Comfort painted his first oil painting, when he returned to Toronto where he befriended Will Ogilvie, who may have influenced this switch to oil. Comfort regularly worked as a commercial illustrator as well as a teacher at the Ontario College of Art and Design from 1935-1938. He subsequently held by a teaching position at the University of Toronto, a post he continued after the war until 1960. Served as the Director of the National Gallery of Canada from 1959 until 1965. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Charles Comfort please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item is sold. Alfred Joseph Casson 1898-1992 Casson studied art in Hamilton Technical School in 1913, and central Technical School in Toronto from 1915-1917. He apprenticed with the artist Frank Carmichael at Rous & Mann in 1919, following him to Sampson & Matthews in 1927. Casson co-founded the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour in 1926, a medium he favoured until the 1950s. He worked in commercial art firms from the age of 15, becoming a full-time artist only when he retired in 1957, then Vice-President and Art Director of the Toronto firm of Sampson & Matthews. In 1926, Casson had replaced Johnston as a member of the Group of Seven. In the 1930s he concentrated on Ontario villages. The dramatic lighting of his mid-1940s landscapes gave way to superimposed forms and light broken into planes from the 1940s-1950s. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by A.J. Casson please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item has been sold. Lawren Stewart Harris 1885-1970. Lawren Harris with J. E. H. MacDonald financed boxcar trips for the artists of the Group of Seven to the Algoma region, 1918-1919. Another painting trip after Algoma was to Lake Superior's North Shore with A.Y. Jackson, he returned annually for the next seven years. There he developed the style he is best known for. Harris paintings in the early 1920s were characterized by rich, decorative colours that were applied thick, in painterly impasto. He painted landscapes around Toronto, Georgian Bay and Algoma. His first trip to the Rockies in 1924 soon became annual, too, for the next three years. In 1940 he moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, where Harris entered his abstract phase. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Lawren Harris please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item has been sold. Marian Dale SCOTT 1906-1993. The paintings of Marian Dale Scott are among the most exciting visual statements to have emerged from Montreal during the thirties and forties. As a friend and associate of artist John Lyman and a founding member of the Contemporary Arts Society of Montreal Marian occupied a central place within Montreal's English speaking intellectual circles. In 1926 Attends the Slade School of Art, London, 1936 now working with Bethune and Brandtner in Montreal, 1947 member of the Canadian Group of Painters, 1950 teaching at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School of Art and Design, 1973 elected RCA. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Marian SCOTT please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item has been sold. Sarah Margaret Armour ROBERTSON (1891-1948) Abstraction Exhibited: Sarah Robertson, 1891-1948 memorial exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, Nov. 3-29,1951 and circulated throughout Canada by the NGC, Feb. 16, 1952-Apr. 2, 1953. Listed in the catalogue as entry no. 5. Oil on panel, 16 x 20 inches. A rare example of a Beaver Hall Group abstract painting. Sarah Robertson spent most of life in Montreal. Studied William Brymner, Maurice Cullen, and Randolph Hewton, she joined the loosely-knit Beaver Hall Group, which included such artists as Edwin Holgate, A.Y. Jackson, and Kathleen Morris among its members. She exhibited with groups such as the Art Association of Montreal (1919-45), the Royal Canadian Academy (1920-23, 1925-27, 1934), the Canadian Group of Painters (1933-1934,1936-39, 1942,1947), and the Ontario Society of Artists (1927-30). If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Sarah ROBERTSON please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item has been sold. Rolph SCARLETT 1889-1984 born in Guelph, Ontario. In 1913 while on a trip to New York when he was 24, Scarlett saw the Armory Show. It would prove to be an important event in his artistic career and he came away fascinated with the modern and abstract art. The most important influence on Rolph Scarletts art came when he was in his forties through the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, founded in 1936 and later renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Scarlett became a close friend and confidant of the founding director Hilla Rebay. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Rolph SCARLETT please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item has been sold. Edna Tacon, O.S.A. 1913-1980. In 1941 Edna studied in NYC, she championed abstraction in Toronto from 1941-1947 with her exhibitions in the Fine Art Gallery at Eatons College St. She was a close friend of Hilla Rebay founding director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum where Edna volunteered as a docent. Also spent time with Lawren Harris when in New York. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by Edna Tacon please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.

Availability: This item has been sold. John William Beatty, 1869-1941. At the age of 31 and traveled to Paris to study painting. On his return to Toronto, he opened a studio and was a teacher of art. He returned to Europe in 1906-8 to revisit Paris and make sketching trips to Holland, Belgium Italy and Spain. He was appointed the official war artist for the Canadian War Memorials in 1917 and went overseas once again. In 1912 Lismer convinced Beatty to give up independent teaching and join the faculty of the Ontario College of Art. A lifelong colleague to the members of the Group of Seven, he often made sketching trips with the artists in Northern Ontario. If you are interested in buying or selling paintings by J.W. Beatty please contact us with details at: canadianart@rogers.com.