Like many of his contemporaries, Canadian painter Frederick Simpson Coburn (1871-1960) listened to the beat of the drum inside him, so his oeuvre reflects little, if anything, of the art movements that revolutionized 20th-century and late 19th-century art. Coburn, the subject of a retrospective at Galerie Walter Klinkhoff (1200 Sherbrooke...

The 82-year-old woman, handicapped since childhood, has left to posterity one of the finest testaments to the joy of Canadian life. Her love affair is declared with every bold brush stroke. The happiness and joie de vivre is brought is told with each robust splash of colour. From looking at...