Our most recent acquisition is Arthur Lismer's painting, Lake O’Hara, Canadian Rockies, 1928. For purposes of composition, in order to capture the majesty of the peaks set against the sky, Lismer eliminated all but a sliver of the lake itself. Arthur Lismer himself contributed simply the title “Lake O’Hara, Canadian...

The A.Y. Jackson “Sugar Shanty” painted near his brother Harry’s farm at St. Aubert in Quebec’s L’Islet is a particularly fine composition of the 1940s.

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...

On May 7, 1920, the first exhibition of the Group of Seven opened at the Art Museum of Toronto (today the Art Gallery of Ontario). On May 7, 2020 we will celebrate the centenary with a dedicated presentation including for sale an outstanding selection of more than 30 paintings by...

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.”

Lawren Harris' iconic painting, A Row of Houses, Wellington Street, 1910, is among the works featured in our April 1 sale, Lawren Harris & Canadian Masters: Historic Sale Celebrating Canada's 150 Years. In new research for Alan Klinkhoff Gallery to be published soon, Dr. Adamson describes A Row of Houses,...

Carving a long and distinguished career, William I.M. Turner Jr. made important contributions to the spheres of business, community services, education and the arts. He grew up in Toronto, where he earned first a degree in engineering from t he University of Toronto and then an MBA from Harvard Business...

In the first half of the twentieth century, Arthur Lismer was a peer among an esteemed group of artists who were defining a distinctive nationalistic style of painting inspired by the wilderness of Northern Canada. For Lismer, the North presented an irresistible atmosphere that promised happiness and vitality, Georgian Bay...

On July 14, 2014, at the invitation of a distinguished colleague and friend of long standing, I flew from Montreal to Toronto and was driven to a commercial art gallery in Hamilton where I was to participate as an evaluator of a group of paintings to be donated to the...

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 Exhibition & Sale of Important Canadian and International Art will go online March 29 at approximately 12pm with select works on view at the gallery.

Back in week one at Galerie Alan Klinkhoff, we finalized our first acquisition and for Jon, Craig and I, it was as exciting as it was appropriate that it was a painting by Arthur Lismer , a founding member of the Group of Seven and an artist with whom we...

Continued discussion regarding our discovery of the important canvas by A.Y. Jackson, 'Night on the Skeena River', 1927, has prompted me to write a few additional comments. Prior the re-emergence of 'Night on the Skeena River', 1927, the available evidence led us to believe that Jackson had 'worked up' six...

Featuring works by James Wilson Morrice, A.Y. Jackson, Philip Surrey, Adrien Hebert and others. On Thursday, July 25, [] will be opening an online exhibition of our latest releases of Important Canadian Art. This special exhibition and sale will be posted on klinkhoff.com at approximately 12pm, with select works on...

Featuring works by Claude Tousignant, Lawren Harris, Alfred J. Casson, Frederick S. Coburn, John Little and others. On Thursday, March 28, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff will be opening an online exhibition of our latest releases of Important Canadian Art. This special exhibition and sale will be posted on klinkhoff.com at approximately...

I will begin this retrospective with the comment that in my career I cannot recall a holiday season as vigorous as this. Contemporary art, the market arguably most affected by global economic concerns, surged to levels we have not recently seen. I am as delighted to report this to our...

The highlight of the fall season for me had to be 'Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven', the McMichael Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario, hosted brilliantly under the relatively new leadership of Dr. Victoria Dickenson. This was the same presentation that fortunate spectators had previously enjoyed in London...

In Canadian art, the number of collectible artists is limited and, at least as concerns the 19th Century greats and those up to the pre-World War ll period, their most celebrated works have generally long been in the collections of the major museums, never to return to the marketplace. The...

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It is my opinion that a gallery which provides a genuine and market respected expertise is a gallery that serious collectors should pursue to assist in the vetting of their art collection. The only obvious alternatives that comes to mind as I write these musings is that if the venue...