William G. Hobbs (May 16, 1927) was born in Alderney in the Channel Islands and settled in Canada in 1959. Despite the substantial demands in time alone imposed upon him by his position of physician and doctor in a country community, he managed to expand good technical skill in painting that won him first prize in a major Canadian art show in 1978.

Hobbs was a long time practicing physician in the Southeast Saskatchewan and also at Southwestern Manitoba area. His home and hospital was at Gainsborough, Saskatchewan

He took the first interest at the Fifth Texas International Art Show in 1976 and second interest at the seventh in 1978. He has been honored with a number of one-man shows, plus having his work chosen for showing at the International Grand Prix of contemporary Art in Monte Carlo. His work was on show at the winter garden exhibition area in December, 1978, under the high support of Their Serene Highnesses, Sovereign Prince and the Princess of Monaco.

Much of Hobbs’ work reproduces the sway his colonization had on him, as is portrayed in a series consisting of six major works on that subject.

Lawren Stewart Harris, CC (October 23, 1885 – January 29, 1970) was a great Canadian painter. He was born in Brantford, Ontario and is famous as a member of the Group of Seven who forges a definitely Canadian painting style in the early twentieth century. A. Y. Jackson has been quoted as saying that Harris provides the incentive for the Group of Seven. During the 1920s, Harris’ works became more abstract and more simplified, especially his stark landscapes of the Canadian north and Arctic. He also stopped marking and dating his works so that people will judge his works on their own merit and also not by the artist or when they were painted.

In 1969 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.

History

Lawren Harris was born in Brantford Ontario into a rich family on October 23 1885. He was the first born of two sons. Lawren went to school at St. Andrew’s College in Toronto, then at age 19 (from 1904-1907) studied in Berlin. He was always interested in philosophy and other eastern thought. Later, Harris became involved in Theosophy and joined the Toronto Lodge of the International Theosophical Society. Lawren went on to marry Beatrice (Trixie) Phillips on January 20th 1910 and jointly had three children born in the first decade of their marriage. Soon after meeting and becoming friends with J. E. H. MacDonald in 1911, they formed together the Group of Seven. In 1913, he financed the construction of a Studio building in Toronto with friend Dr. James MacCallum.

Born in Abbotsford, British Columbia, in 1949, Rodney Graham is a great artist often linked with ‘photo conceptualism’, brand of the theoretical art, which has made Vancouver, British Columbia a significant city for worldwide art as the mid-to-late 1980s.

Work

He is most extensively known for his opulently produced dress dramas, his interest in the ‘pathology of the loop’ and also the aesthetics of duration, pictures of upside-down trees, which obtained by the use of a camera obscure constructed on site, and his appropriation of canonical Donald Judd-like makeup’s as bookshelves of modernist design fixtures. After having worked many years in the higher echelons of European artistic history (with works ‘devoted’ to Georg Buchner, Richard Wagner, Sigmund Freud and with Ferdinand de Saussure), Graham then turned his attention to American popular/folk art of late, and is now pursuing an intriguing career in pop music.

Works Cited

“Rodney Graham,” Lisson Gallery. 2004. Graham, Rodney. MOCA Exhibit and at promotional material for “A Little Thought.” 2004. Includes all Graham works cited. Hickey, Dave. “Rodney Graham.” From About place: new art of the Americas Edited by Madeleine Grynztejn, 2003. Parkett. 2004 Edition for Rodney Graham Exhibition at MOCA, 2004. Spira, Anthony. “Interview with the artist: Rodney Graham.” 2003.

Betty Roodish Goodwin (born March 19, 1923, Montreal) was a Canadian printmaker, sculptor, painter, and installation artist.

In 2003, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Art
Betty Goodwin used a large variety of media, including collage, sculpture, printmaking, painting and good drawing, assemblage, etchings. Her subject matter almost always revolves around the human form and fine deals with it in a great emotional way. Goodwin refers to her art as a power of ‘body suffering’. Many of her ideas come from bunches of photographs, stuffs or drawings on the walls in her studio. She also uses the “germ” of ideas that are left being erased from a work.

Prizes and awards
   •Governor General’s Award in Visual Arts in 2003
   •Prix Paul-Émile Borduas conferred by the Government of Québec in 1986
   •Gershon Iskowitz Prize in 1986

Eric Goldberg (1890-1969) was a Jewish-Canadian painter was born in 1890 in Berlin, Germany. Goldberg was prejudiced by the art of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, studied under Jean-Paul Laurens, and trained at the Berlin Academy of Art and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. He began working in Montreal in 1928 and favored the landscapes of Quebec’s Gaspésie region. In 1939, Goldberg was a founding member of the Society d’art contemporizing, a group of Canadian artists aims to sensitizing the public to modern art.

His work has been displayed in Europe, Asia, and North America. He married Quebec-born (1897) Regina Seiden - herself a well-respected artist - who studied under the Canadian traditionalist masters William Brymner and Maurice Cullen. Goldberg was a member of the Eastern Group of Painters, a group founded in Montreal to oppose the nationalism of the Canadian Group of Painters. He was well-represented by Max Stern’s Dominion Gallery in Montreal - see Max Stern (gallery owner).

Goldberg died in Montreal in 1969. His works are in the enduring collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Jewish Congress National Archives.

Gerald Gladstone (1929-2005) was a good Canadian sculptor and painter, born in 1929 in Toronto, Canada.

From an early age, Gladstone was epitomized as bold, precocious, and prodigious. As a child, he was as dedicated to his music as he was to painting. Gladstone taught himself clarinet and formed a ballet band. He soon, however, dedicated himself to new plastic arts, interested particularly sculpture for which he had a marked affinity and ability. He was soon earmarked a prodigy by curators and critics.

Gladstone was a member of the vital group of artists show by Toronto gallery owner Av Isaacs in the 1950s. The disparate group included artists such as Michael Snow, Gordon Rayner, Graham Coughtry, and Tony Urquhart. His sculptures of the period were noticeably modernist in a 1950s Toronto art scene noted for its traditional and traditionalism (with the exception of sculptors such as Sorel Etrog, for example). In 1959, he received his first Canada Council of the Arts grant and Gladstone re-located to London, England. He studied at the Royal College of Art School where he met and looked after the British sculptor Henry Moore. As a result of Moore’s influence, Gladstone began a long period of testing with figurative sculpture.

Gladstone was given a display by the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2003. He died on March 7, 2005.

Marcelle Ferron (January 29, 1924 – November 19, 2001), a Quebecoise painter and also stained glass artist, she was a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene.

Jacques Ferron, a famous Quebec writer, is her elder brother, while Madeleine Ferron, another writer, is also her sister.

One of her best famous stained-glass windows is at Champ-de-Mars metro station in Montreal. It was one of the first non-figurative works to be installed in the metro, in disobedience of the educational style present in other works of the period, and signaled a major shift in public art in Montreal between the policies of then-art director Robert Lapalme and the future art executive and fellow Automatist Jean-Paul Mousseau.

She was honored by an award in 1983 Paul-Emile-Borduas medal for the visual arts by the government of Quebec.

Paterson Ewen (1925-2002) (variant name William Paterson Ewen) was an good Canadian painter, born in 1925 in Montreal, Quebec. He attended McGill University from 1946-47 where he prolonged his studies in geology and fine arts with John Lyman. From 1948-50 he took many classes at the School of Art and Design at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, studying under Goodridge Roberts, Arthur Lismer, William Armstrong, and Jacques de Tonnancour.

His earliest works of the late 1940s disclose a range of interests and, chiefly, the influence of Goodridge Roberts. By the mid 1950s, he had started a 16-year exploration of abstraction, at first with gesticulates and then, by 1964, with geometric forms insecurely related to hard-edge painting. While in Montreal, he was imaginatively connected to the artists of the Automatist movement, and became a member of the Non-Figurative Artists’ Association of Montreal, founded in 1956.

Paterson Ewen is represented in chief museums and public galleries throughout Canada.

Marcel Dzama (born 1974 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is an artist top very famous known for his pen and ink drawings, which use large amounts of white space and bizarre, ambiguous, and normally unconnected subject matter. Indeed, in Dzama’s works you are as slightly to see a reference to late-Victorian children’s book illustrator, Beatrix Potter, as an unexpected appearance of Spider-Man. Dzama’s art has gained fame steadily since his introduction to an international network of galleries and institutions in Los Angeles in 1997. He may have had his broadest experience as the cover artist for Beck’s 2005 release Guero; he was also the cover artist for Winnipeg band The Weaker Hans’ album Reconstruction Site (2003).

In 1996, he founded the artist collective known as the Royal Art Lodge, in Manitoba. Dzama graduated from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, and moved to New York in November 2004.

Charles Daudelin (October 1, 1920 – April 2, 2001) was a Canadian artist and painter, a major Quebec artist.

Born in Granby, Quebec, he became a forge in integrating art between public place formed many public artworks, including:

Allegro cube, in front of the Palais de Justice in Montreal; the altar screen for the Sacré-Coeur chapel for Notre-Dame Basilica; works in Viger Square in Montreal and the Place du Québec in Paris; aluminum joints at Mont-Royal station and big sculptural grilles at Langelier station in the Montreal metro.

Charles Daudelin was awarded the Quebec government’s Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas in 1985, and also made a member of the Ordre national du Québec in 1998. He died in Kirkland, Quebec (now in Montreal); his last work, Le Passage du 2 avril, is named for the date of his death and it was fit in front of Kirkland’s former town hall.