Canadian art -

Making generalizations about the visual culture of any group of people is a crude endeavor, especially with a culture as diverse as Canada's. With this thought in mind, know that this survey, as any must be, is tremendously limited in its breadth and depth.

[Expect a more in-depth article to appear here soon.]

Examples:

Robert R. Whale (Canadian, 1807-1887), View of Hamilton, 1853, oil on canvas, 90.6 x 120.8 cm, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

Cornelius Krieghoff (Canadian, 1815-1872), The Ice Bridge at Longue-Pointe, c. 1847-1848, oil on canvas, 60.8 x 76.2 cm, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

Cornelius Krieghoff, Winter Landscape, Laval, 1862, oil on canvas, 57.1 x 88.7 cm, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

F.H. Varley (Canadian, 1881-1969), Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay, c. 1920, oil on canvas, 132.6 x 162.8 cm, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

Alexander Young Jackson (Canadian, 1882-1974), The Entrance to Halifax Harbor, 1919, oil on canvas, 64.8 x 80.6 cm, Tate Gallery, London. See Group of Seven.

Lawren Harris (Canadian, 1885-1970), North Shore, Lake Superior, 1926, oil on canvas, 102.2 x 128.3 cm, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

Arthur Lismer (Canadian, 1885-1969), A September Gale, Georgian Bay, 1921, oil on canvas, 122.4 x 163 cm, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

Alfred Pellan (Canadian, 1906-1988), On the Beach, 1945, oil on canvas, 207.7 x 167.6 cm, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

Alex Colville (Canadian, 1920-), Couple on Beach, 1957, casein tempera on Masonite, 73.4 x 91.4 cm, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

Jean-Paul Riopelle (French-Canadian, 1923-2002), Perspectives, 1956, oil on canvas, 80.6 x 100.0 cm, Tate Gallery, London. See impasto.

Other resources:

• Virtual Museum of Canada presents a virtual exhibit of French Canadian art and culture across Canada.
  
  
  
• Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  
  
• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario. European, Canadian, modern and contemporary art.
  
  
• Emily Carr House, Victoria, British Columbia. There's an online exhibition of her paintings, along with some of her writing, and information about her life and family.
  
  
• Glenbow Museum Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, focuses on the development of the West. It has historic, contemporary, western, native and Inuit art.
  
  
• The Mendel, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, has historical and contemporary Saskatchewan and Canadian art, and some international. Browse much of the collection by artist and title.
  
  
• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has more than 25,000 works in the collections of Canadian art, contemporary art, Inuit art, European masters, prints and drawings, and decorative art.
  
  
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, has information on current art exhibits on display at the National Art Gallery of Canada, as well as travelling exhibits, past exhibits and those coming up.
  
  
• Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, has Canadian heritage floor galleries, temporary exhibits of contemporary art, and more.
  
  
• Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, presents biographical information on Tom Thomson, along with some of his work.
  
  
• Canadian History Timeline.