Françoise Pagnuelo [1918-1957] was a descendent of the historically prominent Pagnuelo family of Montreal, She lived most of her life in Westmount and Ste. Adele, Quebec. She studied art in Montreal under Edwin Holgate, Lilias Torrence Newton, T.R. MacDonald, Harold Beament, Adam Sheriff Scott, and Jean-Paul Lemieux. She exhibited regularly from 1940 to 1956 (Henry Morgan & Company Ltd. [1943], The Art Association of Montreal [1941], Montreal Museum of Fine Arts [1940-44 & 1953], Independent Art Association [1956], Art Gallery of Toronto [1950], Hamilton Art Gallery [1950, 1957] etc.). Throughout her career Pagnuelo received excellent critical acclaim and many of her exhibitions were reviewed in the local press. She was a painter of urban scenes, marines, still-lifes, portraits (including black subjects), and landscapes of Montreal, the Laurentians, Gaspé, and New England. A fine painter in the post-impressionist tradition, her career was tragically cut short when she died of cancer at the age of 39.

Sylvia Hahn [1911-2001] was a member of the prominent Hahn family of artists. Like her sisters she attended Havergal College in Toronto, where her artistic abilities were regularly noted. She studied at the University of Toronto for a year [1929-30] and spent four years at the Ontario College of Art [1929-32] under her father Gustav, her uncle Emanuel, J.W. Beatty, Frank Carmichael, A.G. Barns, Yvonne McKague Housser etc. Her years at the OCA were highly productive and she achieved honours and scholarship levels in design, still life, antique, costume, composition, modeling, and commercial art. At her graduation she won the Governor-General’s medal for the arts and was appointed an associate of the department of painting and drawing at the college. Starting in 1934 she worked at the Royal Ontario Museum as artistic designer, head of the art department, and keeper of the print collection. Her 11 murals and other gallery designs are still in place at the Museum. Sylvia Hahn’s most productive years were from the 1940s to the late 1960s. She taught metalwork, judged craft competitions and illustrated books. She was an active member of the Ontario Society of Artists, the Canadian Painter-Etchers, and various craft organizations (including the Toronto Metal Crafts Guild). She was given many commissions and her superb liturgical work (silver, altar pieces, paintings and sculpture) can be seen in as many as 15 churches across the country. Her murals also hang in Havergal College and Emmanuel College at University of Toronto. The artist was a proficient print-maker and was well known throughout her life for her wood engravings and woodcuts. She illustrated several books with her wood engravings, including “The Four Heads Lyre” poems by Lars von Hartnn, and “A Naturalist’s Guide to Ontario”. In later years she also wrote, illustrated and published books about nature and her cats. She was the last member of the Hahn family to live in the old summer home "Myrtle" (a subject of many of her works) located just outside Whitby, Ontario. In 1975, during the International Women’s Year, she was nominated as an outstanding woman of the Province of Ontario.

Aleen Aked [1907-2003] was born in Kildwick, Yorkshire, England and moved to Canada at age three. At fourteen she won an Arthur Lismer Junior Course Scholarship at the Ontario College of Art and later a fulltime scholarship. She studied under the Group of Seven members Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald, F.W. Varley, and A.Y. Jackson. She also studied under J.W. Beatty, George Reid, Fred Haines, Yvonne McKague Housser, Emmanuel Hahn, and Sydney March at the O.C.A. (her classmates included Doris McCarthy and Isabel McLaughlin). From 1929 until 1944 she spent Winters in Sarasota, Florida and Summers in Ontario. She exhibited regularly in Florida and became a member of the Southern States Art League and the Sarasota Art Association. In 1942 she served as president of the S.A.A. She also studied at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota and privately under American painters Abbott Graves (still-lifes) and Robert Brackman (portraits). She exhibited regularly in Canada at the Canadian National Exhibition, the Royal Canadian Academy, and the Ontario Society of Artists. In 1989 a major retrospective of her work was held at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario.

Artists include: Aleen Aked, Sylvia Bercovitch Ary, Molly Lamb Bobak, Elizabeth Lovitt Cann, Hazel Caverhill, Nan Cheney, Paraskeva Clark, Edith Grace Coombs, Gertrude Spurr Cutts, Viola Depew, Mary Dignam, Alma Duncan, Ruth Mary Eliot, Emily Elliot, Lillian Freiman, E. Galbraith-Cornell, Naomi Jackson Groves, Beatrice Hagarty, Clara Sophia Hagarty, Sylvia Hahn, Mary Riter Hamilton, Rae Hendershot, Bess Housser Harris, Barbara Cogill Haworth, Anne Smith Hook, Frances Anne Johnston, Rita Letendre, Mabel Irene Lockerby, Marion Long, Alexandra Luke, Jean MacLean, E. McGillivray Knowles, Rita Mount, Françoise Pagnuelo, Isobelle Chestnut Reid, Sarah Robertson, Charlotte Mount Brock Schreiber, Ethel Seath, Jori Smith, Dorothy Stevens, Emily Warren, Mary Evelyn Wrinch, Mary Zwicker etc.

Julius Edward Lindsay Griffith, FCA. CSGA. P-CSPW. OSA. RCA. was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He studied at the Vancouver School of Art under Charles H. Scott, F.H. Varley and J.W.G. MacDonald. After moving to England with his parents in 1928 he studied in London at the Slade School and Central School of Arts & Crafts. He also studied at the Royal College of Art under Sir William Ruthenstein, E.W. Tristram, Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious, and Gilbert Spencer. Further studies were interrupted by the outbreak of WWII. He worked with “Air-raid Precautions” for a time and eventually joined the Red Cross. In 1941-42 he worked in a country-house hospital in Sussex. With little to do, he taught art and learned Russian. He joined the Royal Navy as an interpreter under the rank of Sub-Lieutenant. From 1942 till the end of the war Griffith was stationed in Murmansk and Archangel. In November 1946 Griffith returned permanently to Canada. On his return he quickly established himself as a graphic artist and wood engraver. He later studied in Toronto at the Ontario College of Art with Frederick Hagen. In painting he was influenced by European modern artists and by the work of David Milne. He was given four watercolour exhibitions at the Picture Loan Society in Toronto. He also exhibited work at the Brooklyn Museum’s “20^th International Biennial Show of Water Colours” [1959] and at the “First International Biennial of Prints”, Tokyo, Japan [1957]. He held exhibitions of prints at the Art Gallery of Hamilton [1960] and of watercolours at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts [1962]. Griffith taught art in Toronto at the Western Technical School, Artists’ Workshop, Ryerson Polytechnic Institute, Ontario College of Art, and at Central Technical School. Julius Griffith was a painter in watercolour and oils, a graphic artist, illustrator, teacher, and fine print maker. His work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Canadian War Museum, Imperial War Museum (London), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto City Archives, Toronto Public Library, Art Gallery of Hamilton, McMaster University (Hamilton), Carleton University (Ottawa), Glenbow Museum (Calgary), Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (British Columbia), and numerous corporate and private collections.

Artists include: William Atkinson, Frederick Banting, Frederic Bell-Smith, André Biéler, Molly Bobak, Fritz Brandtner, Frank L. Brooks, Charles Comfort, Paul Caron, F.S. Challener, Edmond Dyonnet, Barker Fairley, L.L. FitzGerald, Clarence Gagnon, Joseph S. Hallam, Lawren S. Harris, Adrien Hébert, Randolph Hewton, A.Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, F. McGillivray Knowles, Arthur Lismer, John Lyman, Manly MacDonald, Mabel May, David Milne, James W. Morrice, Louis Muhlstock, Laura Muntz, Ernst Neumann, Kathleen D. Pepper, Goodridge Roberts, Charles Simpson, M.A. Suzor-Coté, Frederick Verner, Horatio Walker etc.

Ann MacIntosh Duff was born in Toronto. She studied with Peter Haworth and others at the Central Technical School [1943-46]. She also studied with André Biéler and Caven Atkins at Queen’s University Summer School, Kingston, Ontario [1944, 45]. She exhibited at the Picture Loan Society [1959, 61, 63, 64] and at many galleries in Toronto and across Canada. She has also participated in international exhibitions in the United States, Britain and Japan and is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. A painter in watercolours, of landscapes, interiors, and still-lifes. Duff is also a fine printmaker working in wood engraving and monotype. Her work is in the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, University of Toronto Art Centre, London Regional Art Gallery, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, and is held by numerous public and private collections in Canada, the United States, and internationally.

(Edgar, Frank) Dewitt Drake [1884-c1979] was born in Dunnville, Ontario, to a family of tradesmen. His Parents were very involved in the local Methodist Church (one sister became a missionary in Japan). In early life Drake traveled to northern Ontario, to Fort William (Thunder Bay), and New York State. In documents from the period Drake listed his occupation as “Printer”. In 1914 he married his wife Edith, and in 1919 his daughter Stella was born. Drake resided in Toronto for most of his life but was later committed to Whitby Hospital because of illness. He worked for the Toronto Telegram for many years as a type-setter and illustrator (in 1963 he received a 50 year medal from Typographical Union 91). He had extensive contact with Toronto artists and was a friend of J.E.H. and Thoreau MacDonald. It is believed that Drake studied at the Ontario College of Art (Carmichael, JEH. MacDonald, & Beatty would have been teachers). He painted in Toronto, the greater area, and Southern Ontario. Some paintings and drawings bear exhibition labels from Ontario Society of Artists Exhibitions in 1920 and 1921. Dewitt Drake was an accomplished etcher and showed with the Canadian Painters-Etchers in 1957, 59, 60, and 62. His graphic work was influenced by Modernist trends of the twentieth century and his paintings by the Post-Impressionism of the Group of Seven.

George Griffin

[1898-1974]

Exhibition, December 17 to January 5, 2006

Artists include: Ron Bloore, David Bolduc, Paul-Emile Borduas, Frederich W. Brandtner, Graham Coughtry, Lionel Lemoine Fitzgerald, Gerald Gladstone, Richard Gorman, Robert Hedrick, Tom Hodgson, Gershon Iskowitz, Jiri Ladocha, Alexandra Luke, Ray Mead, John Meredith, Gordon Rayner, William Ronald, Jorie Smith, Gordon Webber etc.

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Alma Mary Duncan, FCA. CSGA. PDCC. CAR. was born in Paris, Ontario. She studied in Hamilton, and at McGill University in Montreal. She also studied painting and drawing with Adam Sheriff Scott [1935-36] and took life studies with Ernst Neumann and Goodridge Roberts [1940-43]. In 1943 Duncan received permission to sketch Canadian war industries, and to document the life of the Canadian Women’s Army Corps. Often considered an unofficial war artist, she followed in the ranks of artists Caven Atkins, Dorothy Stevens, and Lilias Torrance Newton. Her interest in war and industrial images continued throughout her career and was useful in her later work at the Canadian War Museum and National Gallery of Canada.

Alma Duncan worked for a Montreal advertising firm from 1936-43 and for the National Film Board from 1943. At the NFB she designed posters and publications and worked for the animation department. Her first film “Folksong Fantasy” was shown at the Edinburgh Festival in 1951. She became a partner of photographer Audrey McLaren and together produced animated films under the name of Dunclaren Productions (their film “Kumak the Sleepy Hunter” was nominated for a British Film Award). She served on Canadian Film Award juries for many years, and herself won a number of Canadian and international honours. From the 1960s onward she devoted most of her time to painting and drawing. Her drawings of plants and rural landscapes were usually done in pen and ink on location, often in the woods near her studio.

Duncan participated in numerous Canadian and international exhibitions. She exhibited at the RCA, AAM. CSGA, CGP, The National Gallery of Canada, Le Cercle Universitaire d’Ottawa, Manitoba Society of Artists, Winnipeg Art Gallery, and London Regional Art Gallery. She also received solo shows at The Academic Hall, University of Ottawa [1947], Isaacs Gallery, Toronto [1967], and Galerie Anne Doran, Ottawa [1981]. In 1942 she won Honourable Mention at a poster competition in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She won the President's Award for Best in Show at the 4^th Rodman Hall Annual Exhibition [1964]; the Purchase Prize, at the International Exhibition of Drawings & Engravings, Lugano, Switzerland [1966]; and had a work selected, for the “IX Joan Miró International Show of Drawings”, Barcelona [1970]. She was also commissioned by Canada Post to design stamps and produced the popular "Maple in Four Seasons" [1971] and "Floral Aerogrammes" [1973].

She taught at Laval University, & MacDonald College [1949]; the Ottawa School of Art [1962-66], Rockcliffe Public School Art Club [1965], After Four Centre, Ottawa [1966], Lindenlea Community Centre, Ottawa [1971-73], and Arnprior Art Club [1978-81].

Through the years Duncan traveled to Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, Hawaii, the Caribbean, Costa Rica, and spent two months in the Canadian Arctic. She also traveled to Islamic countries on a 1968 Canada Council grant to study Islamic art and design.

She has work at The National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canadian War Museum, Canada Council Art Bank, External Affairs Department in Ottawa, London Regional Museum and Art Gallery, Il Museo Caccio, Lugano, Brooklyn Museum, and in many municipal galleries, universities, private and corporate collections. A fine modernist artist and filmmaker, who lived near Cumberland Ontario, Alma Duncan died on December 15^th, 2004 after a long illness.

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Montreal in Art

1850-1970

Exhibition April 1 to May 11, 2006

Artists include: Jack Beder, Alexander Bercovitch, Alfred Boisseau, Loren Bouchard, Frank L. Brooks, F.W. Brandtner, Rita Briansky, Ghitta Caiserman, Paul Caron, George Delfosse, Oscar de Lall, James Duncan, John Fox, W.F. Godfrey, Eric Goldberg, W. Goodridge Roberts, Joseph S. Hallam, Robert Harris, Adrien Hébert, Richard Jack, Henri Julien, Henry Martin, Bernard Mayman, Lincoln Morris, Rita Mount, Ernst Neumann, Françoise Pagnuelo, Albert H. Robinson, G. Horne Russell, Wladimir Schepansky, Ethel Seath, Harry Leslie Smith, Philip Surrey, Gentile Tondino, Richard D. Wilson, Jesus de Villalonga, Fanny Wiselberg, Rose Wiselberg etc.

CANADIAN WATERCOLOURS

1850-2005

Exhibition May 13 to June 22, 2006

Artists include: Frank Armington, James Barnsley, Jack Beder, Frederick Marlett Bell-Smith, Molly Bobak, Frederick Henry Brigden, Bertram Brooker, William Brymner, Georges Chavignaud, Paraskeva Clark, William Creswell, George Delfosse, Louis de Niverville, Ann Macintosh Duff, Lionel Lemoine FitzGerald, Daniel Fowler, Joseph Franchère, Albert Franck, Washington Friend, John Sloan Gordon, Richard Gorman, Thomas G. Greene, Julius Griffith, Gustav Hahn, Sylvia Hahn, George Harlow-White, Robert Harris, Barbara Haworth, Peter Haworth, Herman Heimlich, Jack Weldon Humphrey, Illingworth Holey Kerr, Thoreau MacDonald, Elizabeth McGillivray Knowles, Farquhar McGillivray Knowles, David Milne, Thomas Mower Martin, Edmund Morris, Henri Masson, Graham Norwell, William Ogilvie, Sarah Robertson, Joseph Rolph, Harry Spiers, Philip Surrey, Horatio Walker, Charles Jones Way, Arto Yuszbasiyan, Marguerite Zwicker etc.

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SCULPTURES BY CANADIAN ARTISTS

1910-1980

Works on Display from May 13 to July 13, 2006

Sculptors include: Reza Bassiri, Jack Beder, E. B. Cox, John William Culiner, Dora de Pedery-Hunt, Francois Dezeil, Frederick Alexander Turner Dunbar, Dale Dunning, Edward Falkenburg, Merle Foster, Gerald Gladstone, Edward Gheres, Olindo Gratton, Emanuel Hahn, Girhart Harpe, George William Hill, Arnold Jensen, Sybil Kennedy, Kosso Eloul, Alfred Laliberté, Knut Lund, Almuth Lütkenhaus, Hamilton Thomas Carlton MacCarthy, William Hadd McElchran, David Partridge, Robert Pelletier, Francine Richman, Robert Roussil, Peter Sager, Fred Taylor, Louis Temporali, Lauréat Vallière, Robert Vallière, Esther Wertheimer, Frederick Winkler, Florence Wyle, etc.

Julius Griffith’s

Julius Edward Lindsay Griffith, FCA. CSGA. P-CSPW. OSA. RCA. was born in Vancouver. He studied at the Vancouver School of Art under F.H. Varley and J.W.G. MacDonald. After moving to England with his parents in 1928 he studied in London at the Slade, and Central School of Arts & Crafts. He also studied at the Royal College of Art under Sir William Ruthenstein, Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious, and Gilbert Spencer. Further studies were interrupted by WWII. He joined “Air-raid Precautions” and eventually the Red Cross. In 1941-42 he worked at a hospital in Sussex. With little to do, he taught art and learned Russian. Griffith joined the Royal Navy as an interpreter and was stationed in Murmansk and Archangel. In November 1946 he returned to Canada and established himself as a graphic artist and wood engraver. He showed with the Picture Loan Society and held exhibitions at Art Gallery of Hamilton [1960] and at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts [1962]. He also showed work at the “International Biennial Show of Water Colours” N.Y. [1959] and “International Biennial of Prints”, Tokyo [1957]. Griffith taught in Toronto at Western Tech, Ryerson, OCA, and Central Tech. Julius Griffith was a painter, a graphic artist, illustrator, teacher, and print maker. His work is in the National Gallery of Canada, AGO, Canadian War Museum, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Glenbow Museum, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and numerous public and private collections.

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DEWITT DRAKE

Oil Sketches

Exhibition, September 2 to 28, 2006

(Edgar, Frank) Dewitt Drake [1884-c1979] was born in Dunnville, Ontario, to a family of tradesmen. His Parents were very involved in the local Methodist Church (one sister became a missionary in Japan). In early life Drake traveled to northern Ontario, to Fort William (Thunder Bay), and New York State. In documents from the period Drake listed his occupation as “Printer”. In 1914 he married his wife Edith, and in 1919 his daughter Stella was born. Drake resided in Toronto for most of his life but was later committed to Whitby Hospital because of illness. He worked for the Toronto Telegram for many years as a type-setter and illustrator (in 1963 he received a 50 year medal from Typographical Union 91). He had extensive contact with Toronto artists and was a friend of J.E.H. and Thoreau MacDonald. It is believed that Drake studied at the Ontario College of Art (Carmichael, JEH. MacDonald, & Beatty would have been teachers). He painted in Toronto, the greater area, and Southern Ontario. Some paintings and drawings bear exhibition labels from Ontario Society of Artists Exhibitions in 1920 and 1921. Dewitt Drake was an accomplished etcher and showed with the Canadian Painters-Etchers in 1957, 59, 60, and 62. His graphic work was influenced by Modernist trends of the twentieth century and his paintings by the Post-Impressionism of the Group of Seven.

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NEW ACQUISITIONS

1910-1990

Exhibition, September 30 to November 2, 2006

Artists include: Marcel Barbeau, Henri Beau, André Biéler, Ron Bloore, Molly Bobak, J. Archibald, Brown, Florence Carlyle, A.J. Casson, F. S. Challener, Paraskeva Clarke, F. S. Coburn, Louis de Niverville, Gertrude des Clayes, Barker Fairley, John Fox, John Colin Forbes, Joseph C. Franchére, Clarence Gagnon, Hortense Gordon, Clara Hagarty, Peter Haworth, Barbara Haworth, Lawrence Hyde, Illingworth Kerr, James Kerr Lawson, John Lyman, Medrie MacPhee, William McElcheran, Henri Masson, David Milne, Laura Muntz, Frank Panabaker, David Partridge, George Pepper, Mary Hiester Reid, Jack Humphrey, John Scot, P.C. Sheppard, Charles W. Simpson, Leslie J. Skelton, M.A. Suzor-Coté, Fred Taylor, Tony Urquhart, Fred Varley, Homer Watson, Florence Wyle, Arto Yuzbasiyan etc.

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DAVID SCOTT

Exhibition, November 4 to 30, 2006

David Michael Scott. A contemporary artist specializing in nude and figurative work in oils, charcoal and pencil. Born Toronto [1964]. Studied, Ontario College of Art, Figure Drawing [1986-87]. Exhibited: Becket Gallery Hamilton, Ontario [1981-85]; Bremner Fine Art Markham [1987]; Hollander York Gallery, Toronto, [1989]; Buckingham Fine Art, Unionville [1990-93]; Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto [2000]; D & E Lake Ltd. Fine Arts, Toronto [2006].

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Painted Panels

Small Oil Paintings

Exhibition, December 2, 2006 to January 11, 2007

Works from $500 to $1,500 by Artists: Aleen Aked, John Alfsen, Harold Beament, Jack Beder, Antoine Bittar, Lorne Bouchard, Harry Britton, J. Archibald Browne, Ralph Burton, Albert Edward Cloutier, Edith Coombs, Mary Dignam, Langley Donges, Dewitt Drake, Alma Duncan, Paul Earl, Ruth Eliot, Emily Elliot, Dick Ferrier, John S. Gordon, Hortense Gordon, E. Galbraith-Cornell, Jean Grant, Thomas G. Greene, George Griffin, Naomi Jackson Groves, Beatrice Hagarty, Sylvia Hahn, Joseph Hallam, William Hopkinson, Robert Hyndman, Frances A. Johnston, Minnie Kallmeyer, George Kulmala, Arthur Lidstone, Robert Lindsay, T. R. Macdonald, Jean MacLean, Alfred Mickle, Hutton Mitchell, Lincoln Morris, Rowley Murphy, Françoise Pagnuelo, Hal Perrigard, Gordon Edward Pfeiffer, Stuart Clifford Shaw, Charles W. Simpson, Harry Smith, David Seaton Smith, Owen B. Staples, Dorothy Stevens, Thomas Albert Stone, Philip Surrey, Fred Taylor, Ronald York Wilson, etc.

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INTERNATIONAL MASTER PRINTS

A Selection of Works from 1930-1990

Exhibition, January 13 to February 3, 2007

Artists include: Karel Appel, Arman, Leonard Baskin, Herbert Bayer, Max Bill, Mel Bockner, Bernard Buffet, John Chamberlain, Antoni Clavé, Constant, Salvador Dali, Niki De Saint Phalle Hans Erni, Johnny Friedlander, Eric Gill, Robert Goodenought, Red Grooms, Stanley W. Hayter, John Hoyland, Kitaj, Joseph Kosuth, Marie Laurencin, Bary LeVa, Sol Lewitt, Ben Nicholson, Robert Mangold, Matta, Malcolm Morley, A.R. Penk, Man Ray, James Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, David A.Siqueiros, Kieth Sonnier etc.

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CANADIAN MASTER PRINTS

A Selection of Works from 1960-1990

Exhibition, February 8 to March 8, 2007

Artists include:Iain Baxter, Aba Bayefsky, Paul Beaulieu, David Blackwood, Graham Coughtry, Jennifer Dickson, Etrog Sorel, Vera Frenkel, Albert Dumouchel, Richard Gorman, Frederick Hagan, Jacques Hurtubise, Yves Gaucher, Gershon Iskowitz, William Kurelek, Les Levine, Rene Marcil, Jean McEwen, Guido Molinari, Kazuo Nakamura, Jack Nichols, Toni Onley, Alfred Pellan, William Perehudoff, Jane Ash Poitras, Gordon Rayner, Moses Reinblatt, Jean-Paul Riopelle, William Ronald, Tony Scherman, Gordon Smith, Michael Snow, Harold Town, Tony Urquhart, Joyce Wieland etc.

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THE DECADES OF CANADIAN ART

1880’s & 1890’s

Exhibition, February 10 to April 12, 2007

Artists include:William Armstrong, William Edwin Atkinson, James Barnsley, Frederic Bell-Smith, William Brymner, Henry Bunnet, Georges Chavignaud, Charles Collings, M.A. Suzor Coté, Georgina M. de l'Aubinère, George Delfosse, John de Rinzy, Frederick Ede, Daniel Fowler, James Lillie Graham, James Griffiths, Gustav Hahn, Michael Hanaford, Robert Harris, Alfred Holdstock, Ludger Larose, James Kerr Lawson, Alexander Loemans, Thomas Mower Martin, Henry Nesbitt McEvoy, Elizabeth McGillivray Knowles, Farquhar McGillivray Knowles, Marmaduke Matthews, Charles Moss, Francois Xavier Rapin, Joseph Rolph, William Sawyer, Julien Seavey, Leslie Skelton, Russell Smith, Robert H. Whale, John H. Whale, George Harlow White, T. S. Winterbottom etc.

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THE DECADES OF CANADIAN ART

the teens & twenties

Exhibition, April 14 to May 10, 2007

Artists include:Frank Armington, Wilfred M. Barnes, Vital-Achille-Raoul Barre, Henri Beau, Archibald Browne, Peleg Franklin Brownell, Hazel M. Caverhill, Frederick Challener, Frederick Coburn, William Cullen, Mary Dignam, Paul Earle, John Colin Forbes, Joseph C. Franchère, Clarence Gagnon, John Sloan Gordon, Lawren Stewart Harris, Adrien Hebért, Frank Hennessy, Charles Huot, Lora Hyde, Richard Jack, Frank Johnston, John Y. Johnstone, Ozias Leduc, Onésime-Aimé Leger, Robert H. Lindsay, John Lyman, James Wilson Morrice, Edmund Morris, Rita Mount, Laura Muntz, Henry Ivan Neilson, Ross Reverdy Osgood, Hal Ross Perrigard, Marion Robertson, Arthur D. Rozaire, George Horne Russell, Carl Fellman Schaefer, Charles W. Simpson, Gertrude E. Spurr, Owen B. Staples, Dorothy Stevens, Sydney Strickland Tully, Fred Varley, Homer Ransford Watson, Robert Wickenden, Albert C. Williamson, William J. Wood etc.

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THE DECADES OF CANADIAN ART

the thirties & forties

Exhibition, May 12 to June 14, 2007

Artists include:Aleen Aked, Eric Aldwinckle, John Alfsen, Thérèse Allard, Jack Beder, Harold Beament, Alexander Bercovitch, André Biéler, Julia Biriukova, Bertram Brooker, Paul Caron, Nan Cheney, Charles Comfort, Ernest Cormier, Paraskeva Clark, C.E. Desautels, Helen J. Dow, L.L. FitzGerald, Helmut Gransow, A. Y. Jackson, Naomi Jackson Groves, Emanuel Hahn, Joseph Hallam, Bess Harris, Allan Harrison, Bobs Haworth, Peter Haworth, Laurence Hyde, Minnie Kallmeyer, Estelle Kerr, Thomas Leighton, Arthur Lismer, Marion Long, T. R. MacDonald, Pegi Nichol MacLeod, David Milne, Kathleen Munn, Ernst Neumann, Herbert Palmer, Isobelle Chestnut Reid, J. MacCombe Reynolds, John Eric Riordon, Walter Ruhman, Mary Schneider, George Thomson, Frederick Varley, Gordon Webber, Rex Woods, Elizabeth Wyn Wood, Florence Wyle etc.

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DEWITT DRAKE

Summer Sketches

Exhibition, June 16 to August, 2, 2007

(Edgar, Frank) Dewitt Drake [1884-c1979] was born in Dunnville, Ontario, to a family of tradesmen. His Parents were very involved in the local Methodist Church (one sister became a missionary in Japan). In early life Drake traveled to northern Ontario, to Fort William (Thunder Bay), and New York State. In documents from the period Drake listed his occupation as “Printer”. In 1914 he married his wife Edith, and in 1919 his daughter Stella was born. Drake resided in Toronto for most of his life but was later committed to Whitby Hospital because of illness. He worked for the Toronto Telegram for many years as a type-setter and illustrator (in 1963 he received a 50 year medal from Typographical Union 91). He had extensive contact with Toronto artists and was a friend of J.E.H. and Thoreau MacDonald. It is believed that Drake studied at the Ontario College of Art (Carmichael, JEH. MacDonald, & Beatty would have been teachers). He painted in Toronto, the greater area, and Southern Ontario. Some paintings and drawings bear exhibition labels from Ontario Society of Artists Exhibitions in 1920 and 1921. Dewitt Drake was an accomplished etcher and showed with the Canadian Painters-Etchers in 1957, 59, 60, and 62. His graphic work was influenced by Modernist trends of the twentieth century and his paintings by the Post-Impressionism of the Group of Seven.

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Albert Chiarandini

Works from the Bruce Smith Collection

Exhibition, August 4 to September 6, 2007

Albert Chiarandini was born in 1915 in Udine, Italy. He started drawing and painting early in life. At the age of fifteen he apprenticed to local sculptor L. Moro. In 1932 he emigrated to Canada, applied to the Ontario College of Art, and took classes under Frederick Challenger and John Alfsen. In 1938 he exhibited his first portrait at the Ontario Society of Artists. Wishing to portray people in their normal environment, the artist often took models from the parks at Allan Gardens and the area surrounding the Salvation Army shelter in Toronto. In 1967, he began to paint Yorkville and to document 1960’s Toronto. He received a number of significant portrait commissions, which included figures from the historic and cultural fabric of Ontario. Chiarandini also painted still-lifes and landscapes. He often depicted the rural landscapes of Richmond Hill, Aurora and Newmarket. He is a member of the Ontario Society of Artists and a Fellow of the International Institute of Arts and Letters. He exhibited at the RCA; OSA; Art Gallery of Hamilton; Frederick Horsman Varley Art Gallery, Markham; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Georgina Arts Centre, Sutton; and at commercial galleries. His work is in the National Archives, Ottawa; Art Gallery of Hamilton; Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa; City of Toronto collection; University of Toronto; and numerous private & corporate collections.
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MASTER DRAWINGS

1910-1960

Exhibition, September 20 to November 1, 2007

Artists also include: Caroline Armington, Frank Armington, Paul Vanier Beaulieu, Molly Lamb Bobak, Frederich Wilhelm Brandtner, William Brymner, Frederick Simpson Coburn, Maurice Cullen, Lionel Lemoine FitzGerald, Charles Goldhamer, George Delfosse, Edmond Dyonnet, John Fox, Albert Franck, Clarence Gagnon, Henry Glyde, Lawren Harris, Adrien Hébert, Edwin Headley Holgate, Yvonne McKague Housser, Leonard Hutchinson, Henri Julien, William Kurelek, Arthur Lismer, John Goodwin Lyman, Thoreau MacDonald, Henri Masson, James Wilson Morrice, Louis Muhlstock, Jack Nichols, George Pepper, Kathleen Daly Pepper, William Goodridge Roberts, Sarah Robertson, Albert Henry Robinson, Carl Schaefer, Philip Surrey, Frederick Varley, Horatio Walker etc.

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DAVID SCOTT

Exhibition, November 3 to 29, 2007

David Michael Scott. A contemporary artist creating figurative, gendre, and urbanlandscape art. Working in oil, watercolour, charcoal, pencil, and mixed media. Born in Toronto [1964]. Studied, at the Ontario College of Art, Figure Drawing [1986-87]. With exhibitions at: Becket Gallery Hamilton, Ontario [1981-85]; Bremner Fine Art Markham [1987]; Hollander York Gallery, Toronto, [1989]; Buckingham Fine Art, Unionville [1990-93]; Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto [2000]; and D & E Lake Ltd. Fine Arts, Toronto [2006, 2007].

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