For all the estimable artistic talent that might have made him famous anywhere in the world, Fred Ross has held a deep connection to Saint John and its people. At 82, the work is still coming strong, and his love and admiration of the place, its people and a glass...

Having just returned from attending three auction sales held over a period of less than one week when two of the three houses left their catalogue cover paintings unsold and the third, although not the cover picture, the lot anticipated to be the most costly offering, did not meet its...

Overwhelming enthusiasm for an outstanding selection of new paintings by Quebec City-based artist Claude A. Simard , R.C.A. resulted in a remarkable sell-out show. Simard’s paintings were essentially of five different themes: The garden, migrations, interior scenes, travel, and the winter. In an uncertain economic climate, the quality of available...

Claude A. Simard Galerie Walter Klinkhoff would like to remind you that our exhibition and sale of paintings by Claude Simard begins Monday, May 11. You are cordially invited to the vernissage which takes place at 7:30pm. The exhibition can be previewed here. The paintings are available for purchase prior...

Souren Melikian, in The International Herald Tribune of March 20 2009, reported on the 239 art dealer supported Maastricht art fair, one which focuses primarily on Old Master pictures ... ''Business is blooming against all odds in the art market when the rest of the world economy shrinks. As the...

Included in this exhibition will be an outstanding painting by Cornelius Krieghoff , 'Ste. Anne River, Early Winter, Quebec North Shore' ca. 1863. This painting, discovered in a private collection in England, has a sister painting in the Art Gallery of Ontario, part of the generous donation of the late...

The application of this concept to unique works of art, paintings for instance, is self-evident and popularly accepted. When applied to works of art done in multiples, that is prints, photographs and sculpture for instance, 'authenticity' is more ambiguous. The fundamental issues are quality of supply and quantity of supply.

Would you phone your stock broker today and give him an irrevocable instruction to sell your $300,000 worth of shares of Company X 'at the market' on May 27, 2009 at 10:35 a.m.? No, I would not think that to be a prudent decision. So why would you deal with...

In 2004, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff hosted an Homage à Philip Surrey, a non-selling exhibition in his honour. The exhibition was accompanied by a highly informative catalogue written by Terry Rigelhof, a former neighbour of Margaret and Philip Surrey. Mr. Rigelhof's research and study of Philip Surrey is ongoing. To our...

Philip Surrey, at his best, presents a paradoxical, mystifying mixture of banality turning into violence HENRY LEHMANN THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL Sep 25, 2004 - p. H2 Montreal painter Philip Surrey (1910-1990) is best known for his nocturnal scenes - at least by those relatively few members of the general public...

C'est peut-être cette combinaison d'émotionnel et de visuel qui rend les œuvres de Kathleen Moir Morris si agréables à l'œil. En dépit de sa délicate constitution, elle peignait avec beaucoup de discipline et de force et a laissé derrière elle un impressionnant héritage artistique et personnel. Préférant se tenir loin...

Personne, sans doute, ne symbolise mieux cet esprit de pionnier qu’Emily Carr. C’est une artiste solitaire dont l’existence excentrique pourrait la faire entrer dans la légende. Cependant, limiter Carr à un simple symbole ne saurait rendre justice à cette grande artiste car il s’agit d’un être farouchement indépendant dont l’œuvre...

In the context of contemporary art, the work of Maurice Cullen (1866-1934) might seem incredibly conservative. Yet, in his time, the late 19th and a chunk of the 20th century, his work was quite radical. Cullen’s vision of reality was especially far out in a Canada still under the...

When a major touring retrospective for Maurice Cullen was not shown in Montreal because the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts was closed for renovation, the late Walter Klinkhoff in September 1974 undertook the task of presenting his own show of Cullen's art. His son Eric said, 'My father did this...

As a young, aspiring reporter in Montreal in 1964, one of my first stories was about Sam Borenstein , the iconoclastic painter. After the piece appeared in the Westward News, the now-defunct weekly owned and edited by a rambunctious Irishman named John O'Meara, Borenstein gratefully gave me a print of...

BERNARD MENDELMAN THE SUBURBAN Wednesday, September 9, 1998 'This is our tribute to dad', commented Alan Klinkhoff on Homage to Walter Klinkhoff, Part 1. Alan and his brother Eric have selected about 25 exceptional pieces, prior to 1950, that are amongst the cream of Canadian art. They were chosen from...

Returning from a brief vacation, I was saddened to learn of the death of Walter Klinkhoff, the founder of the prestigious art gallery, bearing his name, on Sherbrooke near Drummond. Mr. Klinkhoff, a long-time resident of Hampstead, originally an engineer, started selling art in 1949, from a second floor duplex...

Walter Klinkhoff, who died last Friday at the age of 78, left his indelible mark on the city he loved, Montreal. The gallery that bears its founder’s name lives on, one of Montreal’s oldest, having outlived numerous other art spaces and countless trends. The Klinkhoff, which focuses largely on Canadian...

The story goes something like this: During a 1966 exhibition of his works, AY Jackson , the great Canadian painter and founding member of the Group of Seven , who loved to talk about his work, stood next to one of his paintings surrounded by an adoring crowd, which was...

William Raphael (1833-1914) was the first Jewish professional artist in Canada. He was respected enough by his peers to have been appointed as a charter member of the Royal Canadian Academy, employed by William Notman's photography studios and sought after as a teacher. Raphael was also considered a significant enough...