Frank Hennessey is an important , yet underrated artist of the Ottawa region of his generation. A full member of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts where he showed regularly in the RCA exhibitions at the Art Association of Montreal and The Art Gallery of Toronto , a member...

This intimate and intense watercolour offers a missing link for our understanding of how Emily Carr developed her imagery of First Nations culture. In 1993, when I compiled my catalogue of all her paintings and drawings of First Nations villages, I listed the sketch of this subject as ‘lost.’ I...

In a showing of enthusiasm that recalled the time when gallery vernissages brought hours-long line-ups and even the occasional shoving match, buyers, friends and supporters crammed into Galerie Walter Klinkhoff on Monday night to attend Laurie Campbell's inaugural exhibition and sale .

Late in the summer of 2009, while in the ancient imperial city of Fès, Morocco, I stood in a carpet shop staring at the dozens of Berber and Rabat carpets stacked and hanging all around me. I had gone to Morocco with the hope of bringing home a good quality,...

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...

From November 16 through 28, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff is pleased to be hosting an exhibition and sale of recent works by the newest addition to our line-up of contemporary Canadian artists, Laurie Cambell . The exhibition features an impressive selection of thought provoking and atmospheric oil paintings of Montreal, selected...

We are delighted and proud to be hosting our first solo exhibition for Laurie Campbell who we have known for several years but only recently begun showing her paintings. Although Laurie's painting place is a familiar one which has inspired any number of predecessors and contemporaries one must acknowledge that...

Percy Woodcock was one of the accomplished Canadian artists that Sir William Van Horne (called “the greatest of all Canada’s art collectors” (1)) engaged, offering complimentary transportation and some expenses. Van Horne 'inaugurated an unusual promotional scheme when he decided that the Canadian Pacific should scatter paintings of the Rockies...

From October 26 to November 7, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff is pleased to be hosting an exhibition and sale of recent works by the exciting contemporary Canadian artist Danielle Lanteigne . The exhibition features a dazzling and powerful series of colourful acrylic paintings, selected from the artist's studio. Danielle Lanteigne was...

Those of you who have read Reminiscences of an Art Dealer, published by my father in 1993, will recall his enthusiasm for the painterly ability of Sam Borenstein and his frustration at not being able to sell them as he would have wished, especially in his early days and at...

On September 26 our Paul Vanier Beaulieu retrospective ended after an exceptional two weeks. Almost 1500 people took advantage of this unique opportunity to see 40 privately held masterworks by this underestimated artist. Bolstered by positive reviews in La Presse , The Westmount Examiner , The Westmount Independent and The...

Klinkhoff Gallery retrospective BERNARD MENDELMAN THE SUBURBAN September, 2009 The work of Paul Vanier Beaulieu is on exhibit until Sept. 26 at Galerie Walter Klinkhoff on Sherbrooke Street W. With the show, the gallery continues its long tradition of holding an annual after-Labour Day retrospective for a major Canadian artist....

Whereas a commissioned portrait would imply certain restraints or inhibitions, insofar as Millette would have had neither the financial ability nor interest to commission her and more likely posed for her at the expense of the artist, Lilias Newton has accomplished for her own account a composition capturing the psychology...

Paul Vanier Beaulieu was a Montreal native who spent the post-World War II years painting in Paris and rubbing shoulders with such luminaries as Picasso and master printer Georges Leblanc. His work was celebrated by his contemporaries, but as part of the European art movement he hasn’t had the recognition...

Paul Vanier Beaulieu's career as a young painter took shape at a time when a dynamic current of revitalization was sweeping Quebec's cultural scene. The movement ultimately fostered the advent of modernity in art owing to the initiatives of its main proponents: John Lyman, Alfred Pellan and Paul-Émile Borduas.

In appreciation of the painterly virtues of Après la tempête, it must be said that this pochade demonstrates Clarence Gagnon at the height of his artistic powers.

Paul Vanier Beaulieu is an important artist who for several years now we have been preparing to celebrate with a non-selling, loan exhibition. Although our gallery's professional appreciation of his work developed well after the artist had cemented fine professional art dealing relations with colleagues, the context of his paintings...

When Suzor-Coté returned to Arthabaska in June of 1894 after three years of art study in Paris it was clear that he was doing so as an artist truly accomplished in his field. In fact it is noteworthy that he was honoured with the acceptance of work to exhibit at...

I cannot recall an auction season when two salesrooms were unable to sell their catalogue cover picture! Certainly, an overview of the results of four auction sales of Canadian art held in May and June shows rather lackluster prices with some obvious exceptions that, although limited in number, were the...

On Saturday, August 1 Galerie Walter Klinkhoff will be hosting the latest in our series of Important Canadian Art sales. The exhibition will feature excellent paintings by important Canadian artists A.Y. Jackson , Randolph Hewton , Anne Savage , Frederick Hutchison , John Little , René Richard , John Fox...