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...

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.

In Paris, Borduas was living in his studio where he had a mattress on the floor in the corner. He painted at that time enormous black and white abstractions and occasionally some of more manageable dimensions, which I bought. Obviously hard up for money, Borduas never tried to sell and...

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.

Edwin Holgate was a rather shy and private person. His father had been an engineer, building railways, principally in Cuba. He left Edwin well off financially. Holgate and Jackson had served in the first war and had remained friends. He was one of the members of the Group of Seven...

A.Y. was a marvellous person to know. Quite apart from the great artist he was, he had exceptional qualities of character. Great kindness, good sense of humour, always considerate of others.

Albert Robinson always spoke very highly of Randolph Hewton. A.Y. Jackson admired him also, saying he was the only one who could actually paint a 20' x 24' canvas from nature, working so confidently and quickly.

Marc-Aurèle Fortin was amongst the first Canadian artists I visited regularly. He was living with his wife at the time, mid 1950s, in a house on Saint Urbain street near Laurier where he lived in a truly bohemian style.

Arthur Lismer was a world-renowned authority on children's art as well as a great teacher. He was a superb and very original artist and had been one of the founding members of Canada's foremost art movement, the Group of Seven. Dr. Lismer's office was at the Art Centre of the...

How I first came to meet Robert Pilot I can now no longer recall. At first, certainly, we had little enough opportunity to encounter one another.

It is perhaps unnecessary to assert Lismer's importance in the history of Canadian art. As a founding member of the Group of Seven and as the creator of paintings that constitute a significant and lasting contribution to our culture, his status is secure.