Contributors

Dr. Béland recently retired as the Curator of Old Master Art after a distinguished 30 year career at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). During that time, he curated 40 exhibitions and published numerous papers and other communications. His research projects into Canadian sculpture and painting are known for their quality, rigor and passion, as are his artist monographs - including Louis Jobin and Eugene Hamel - and his reference books. In 2014 the Société des musées québécois (Quebec Society of Museums) honoured Dr. Béland with the Career Excellence Award for his outstanding achievements and contributions to the advancement of Quebec museology. Mario Béland holds a Ph.D. in art history from the Université de Laval in Québec.

Mark A. Cheetham, PhD, FRSC, is the author of books, volumes, and articles on topics ranging from Immanuel Kant and Art History to abstract art to Postmodernism in Canada. His two books on abstract art offer new understandings of this radical form over its 100+-year history (The Rhetoric of Purity: Essentialist Theory and the Advent of Abstract Painting; Abstract Art Against Autonomy: Infection, Resistance, andCure since the '60s.) Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature since the ‘60swas published in 2018. Active as a curator of contemporary and historical art, he recently presented Struck by Likening: The Power & Pleasure of Artworld Analogiesat the McMaster University Museum of Art (2017). He is a professor of art history at the University of Toronto.

Ms. Dorais did her M.A. Thesis on the early life and career of James Wilson Morrice (Univ

ersité de Montréal, 1980).  She had a promising career at the National Archives of Canada.  Now retired, she is considered by academics, collectors and art merchants to be a foremost scholar on James Wilson Morrice.  Ms. Dorais continues to compile information on the artist, including the Catalogue Raisonné of his oeuvre.

Conrad Graham was Curator at the McCord Museum of Canadian History for 39 years. During that time he managed the Decorative Arts Collection as well as the Paintings, Prints and Drawings Collection. The McCord has one of the largest holdings of early Canadian Art. He is a distinguished Montreal historian and an expert in objects of Canadiana. He is the only Canadian to have mounted an exhibition at the Courtauld Institute Galleries in London, with the exhibition "Mont Royal Ville Marie, Early Plans and Views of Montreal."

I am proud to be the third generation of my family to serve in the Canadian art business. At Galerie Alan Klinkhoff, we specialize in the purchase, sale and appraisal of Canadian art of the highest quality, from the 19th to the 21st century. From our locations in Montreal and Toronto, we advise our international clientele on all aspects of collecting and offer buyers and sellers an unsurpassed expertise and experience. Our opinions concerning quality, value and authenticity are regularly solicited by collectors, museums, other merchants, consultants and auction houses, and we are renowned for our art historical research, which includes collaboration with many of the foremost scholars.

Our expertise includes 19th century Canadian, Canadian impressionism, the Group of Seven, the Beaver Hall Group, abstract expressionists and Quebec's hard edge painters, including artists such as Cornelius Krieghoff, James Wilson Morrice, Clarence Gagnon, F.S. Coburn, David Milne, Tom Thomson, A.Y. Jackson, Arthur Lismer, Edwin Holgate, Emily Carr, Robert Pilot, Prudence Heward, Kathleen Morris, MA Fortin, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Paul-Emile Borduas, Jean Paul Lemieux, Philip Surrey, Claude Tousignant, Sam Borenstein and John Little to name a selection.

I am pleased to have advised many important collectors of Canadian art and have served a number of distinguished Canadians. I have also completed Cultural Property Review Board evaluations for the National Gallery of Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.

I joined my grandmother, Gertrude, my father, Alan, and my uncle, Eric, at Galerie Walter Klinkhoff in 1998. Galerie Alan Klinkhoff is an evolution of Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, which was founded by Walter Klinkhoff and Gertrude Klinkhoff in 1950.

I invite you to send me an e-mail regarding your collecting interests to info@klinkhoff.ca, or call my office at 416-233-0339. You can reach our Montreal gallery at the same e-mail address or call 514-284-9339.

Art dealer Alan Klinkhoff is the owner of the Alan Klinkhoff Galleries in Montreal and Toronto and a member of the Art Dealers Association of Canada. He began his career full time at the Walter Klinkhoff Gallery (1975-2013) and from 1981 became co-owner of the gallery, alternating with his brother between President and Chairman. He has co-organized many monographic exhibitions featuring the leading figures of Quebec and Canadian art. He has sat on many committees, including the Acquisition Committee for Early Art at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (1996-2009) and juries (Le Club des arts de Montréal, Société Radio-Canada, Association culturelle des femmes de Montréal and the Marion McCain exhibition-competition). He is regularly invited as a lecturer, is considered an expert appraiser by the federal Ministry of Justice and provides expert evaluations for the leading museums of Canada.

Anna served as the inaugural coordinator of the online education platform LEARN at the Alan Klinkhoff Gallery where she also held the position of gallery assistant and researchers between 2015-2016 and 2017-2018. Between her tenures at Klinkhoff, Anna obtained her master’s degree from the University of Chicago, specializing in Art History. For her master’s thesis, she wrote on french artist Eugène Fromentin and his approach to orientalist painting. Prior, she graduated from McGill University with a joint honors bachelor's degree in Art History and Anthropology. At McGill, Anna completed two honors theses, the first on museum repatriation policies in Canada and the second on the modern, Scottish potter Emma Gillies, a project written in conjunction with an exhibition at the University of Edinburgh. Her current interests relate to French art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, post-colonial theory and gender studies. In Fall 2018, Anna will pursue these interests at the doctoral level at the City University of New York in Manhattan.

Sandra Paikowsky is a Professor Emeritus in the Art History Department of Concordia University. She was the Director/Curator of the Concordia Art Gallery for from 1981 to 1992. Beginning in 1974, she was the co-founder and then the Editor and Publisher of the Journal of Canadian Art History for over 35 years. She is also the First Distinguished Fellow of the Yarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia. The most recent of her numerous publications include texts on Montreal women abstract painters, modernism in Canadian representational art and paintings of Venice by James Wilson Morrice.

Dr. Harold Waller is Professor of Political Science Emeritus at McGill University, where he served as Chair of the Department of Political Science and Associate Dean and Acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts as well as president of the McGill Association of University Teachers. He holds degrees from M.I.T., Northwestern, and Georgetown. Prof. Waller is co-author, with the late Daniel J. Elazar, of Maintaining Consensus: The Canadian Jewish Polity in the Post War World, which received the National Jewish Book Award in the United States in 1991. As well, he is the co-author with Brent Sasley of Politics in Israel: Governing a Complex Society, which was published in 2017. The
McGill Political Science Students Association honored him as Professor of the Year, also in 2017.