As a young, aspiring reporter in Montreal in 1964, one of my first stories was about Sam Borenstein , the iconoclastic painter. After the piece appeared in the Westward News, the now-defunct weekly owned and edited by a rambunctious Irishman named John O'Meara, Borenstein gratefully gave me a print of...

A gallery founder’s sons pay homage to his memory, offering a rare, impressive look at Montreal’s past. BY DOROTA KOZINSKA - Special to the Gazette THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL Saturday, September 12, 1998 'Our todays and yesterdays are the blocks with which we build,' the poet Longfellow wrote. For Walter Klinkhoff,...

BERNARD MENDELMAN THE SUBURBAN Wednesday, September 9, 1998 'This is our tribute to dad', commented Alan Klinkhoff on Homage to Walter Klinkhoff, Part 1. Alan and his brother Eric have selected about 25 exceptional pieces, prior to 1950, that are amongst the cream of Canadian art. They were chosen from...

Returning from a brief vacation, I was saddened to learn of the death of Walter Klinkhoff, the founder of the prestigious art gallery, bearing his name, on Sherbrooke near Drummond. Mr. Klinkhoff, a long-time resident of Hampstead, originally an engineer, started selling art in 1949, from a second floor duplex...

Walter Klinkhoff, who died last Friday at the age of 78, left his indelible mark on the city he loved, Montreal. The gallery that bears its founder’s name lives on, one of Montreal’s oldest, having outlived numerous other art spaces and countless trends. The Klinkhoff, which focuses largely on Canadian...

The story goes something like this: During a 1966 exhibition of his works, AY Jackson , the great Canadian painter and founding member of the Group of Seven , who loved to talk about his work, stood next to one of his paintings surrounded by an adoring crowd, which was...

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...

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...

Montrealer Robertson deserved a better fate ANN DUNCAN - Gazette Art Critic THE GAZETTE Saturday, September 12, 1991 Montreal painter Sarah Robertson has all but fallen through the cracks of history. After all, it has been 40 years since she was accorder her only solo exhibition. Organized by the National...

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...

Every year for almost two decades, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff has organized an exhibition that earns its owners no money and costs thousands of dollars to mount. The tradition was began to develop interest in a Quebec painter who many otherwise have been overlooked. This year's exhibition, which continues until Sept....

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...

Walter Klinkhoff thinks he got a great deal. At two art auctions in the past eights days, one in Toronto and one in Montreal, the Montreal art dealer picked up two Lawren Harris oil paintings for a mere $75,000. At the Toronto sale he bought 'Lake Superior, North Shore', number...

A long lost painting by noted Canadian artist Cornelius Krieghoff bought by a New Zealand coal miner last year for $200, was sold at auction here last night for $27,000. The buyer, Walter Klinkhoff of Montreal, said delightedly after the auction that the 13th has always been his lucky day....