End of Summer is a generational painting and perhaps Surrey’s most important painting of this vintage. This painting served as the cover image on the catalogue of the Philip Surrey Retrospective Exhibition, September 18 - October 2, 2004, hosted at Galerie Walter Klinkhoff.

The title could be Impression, Dufferin Terrace, a fleeting moment captured at sunset. The Terrace, Québec City's outdoor salon, overlooks the basse-ville and the St. Lawrence river, with Lévis across, and Ile d'Orléans to the left. Morrice... Read more.

Morrice spent his whole working life in Paris, travelling endlessly to find new subjects. Hundreds of drawings and small sketches on wooden panels tell us what he saw, but not how he got there....Read more.

Read about an extremely rare Morrice painting of Montreal, sold by Alan Klinkhoff Gallery. Text by Lucie Dorais, author of the James Wilson Morrice Catalogue Raisonne.

Tom Thomson was always drawn to the subject of trees; trees with spreading foliage beside streams, trees blown by the wind and bent over lakes; trees that many people didn’t look at or saw only as objects to be removed or “tidied up.”

Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven were the most influential artists working in Canada in the first decades of the twentieth century. Their bold experimentation and engagement with Canada’s many landscapes were the tools to foster a uniquely Canadian art that would, in turn, further...

Guido Molinari is famous for his vertical band paintings. This one, dated 1968, is from a series that occupied him during the sixties. What is less known is what prompted him to adopt this vertical format, the complete elimination of the horizontal, and the absence of any suggestion of depth...

Joyeuses Facettes and a few other paintings are mentioned for the first time in a dispatch notice dated December 31, 1958 by Borduas to the Gallery owner G. Blair Laing, then situated at 140 Bloor Street West in Toronto.

On March 28, 2015, Galerie Alan Klinkhoff celebrated one full year at 1448 Sherbrooke Street West. It has been a very special one from a number of perspectives.

From the Conquest until the end of the 19th Century, British landscape artists, professionals and military topographers travelled to the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River to take advantage of the magnificent view of Quebec. From the mouth of the Etchemin River at the west, to Pointe-Lévy at the...

From the late 1950s, the village of Ste-Lucie as well as the neighbouring towns of Ste-Agathe and Val-David were to provide Borenstein with compositions which today are his most celebrated legacies.

In September, 1929, John Lyman attended the famous rowing regatta, which had been held since 1879 in the Bay of La Concha in San Sebastián, on the Basque coast of Spain. In May of that year, Lyman and his wife Corinne had moved into the La Chaumière villa in Saint-Jean-De-Luz,...

As carefree as Jack Bush’s paintings appear to be – in their handling of paint and ‘ad-libbing’ of colour – he was remarkably careful. The artist kept three tidy record books, which stood as an inventory of his fine art. He recorded matters such as titles, dates, dimensions, medium and...

James Wilson Morrice was born in Montreal, lived in Paris and travelled half the world, but each time he crossed the Atlantic he found time to visit Québec City and nearby Côte-de-Beaupré. Most of his Canadian subjects are winter scenes, since he usually came home for Christmas. Only one important...

On Sunday, November 9, 2014 as guests of the McMichael Collection's Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Victoria Dickenson, Jonathan, Helen and I, accompanied by two friends visited the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg for another viewing of 'Morrice and Lyman in the Company of Matisse'. This outstanding...

Yves Gaucher's “grey on grey” paintings have been described as 'one of the stellar achievements of Canadian painting (or international painting, for that matter).' Reviewing an exhibition of three grey on grey canvases at the 1968 Edinburgh Festival, British curator and art critic Bryan Robertson described them as 'possibly the...

Congratulations to the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) for the exhibition 'Morrice and Lyman in the Company of Matisse,' which opened yesterday. To borrow eleven works by Matisse is no simple feat and to see alongside them more than fifty outstanding paintings by Morrice and so many by...

On Saturday, March 29, Galerie Alan Klinkhoff will be celebrating the official opening of our new Montreal gallery in conjunction with an online exhibition of Important Canadian Art. The exhibition and sale will be posted on klinkhoff.com, with select works on view at the gallery. We will also be posting...

Our aluminium window display panels were installed yesterday and this is the result. An unintended but striking consequence, as I found out while leaving last night, is that the panels reflect the surrounding environment, blending in and allowing the paintings to 'pop' out.

Week two at Galerie Alan Klinkhoff... Huguette Simard sent an important selection of paintings by Claude A. Simard to offer for sale. The three decades showcasing Claude’s paintings have permitted my wife, Helen, and me to cement a friendship with Claude and Huguette, watch their children grow, now both mothers...