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Roberts, Tom K. (1908-1998)
BUArtColl · Person · 1908-1998

Tom Roberts was born in Toronto to an artistic family (his mother studied under J.W.L. Forster and his father was proprietor of the Roberts Gallery). He studied at the Central Technical School, Toronto, for three years (graduated 1929) under Haworth, Goldhammer, and Schaeffer. He studied for a year at the Ontario Collge of Art under Beatty, Housser and Haines. He began to work as a professional artist from 1928 onwards. Rous & Mann Ltd., Coutts Ltd., and A.S. Fysche Com. (Montreal) published Christmas cards of landscapes he painted. During World War II he served with the Royal Canadian Engineers [1942-43] and in his spare time made pencil and watercolor sketches of army life. In 1949 Roberts won the Ralph, Clarke, Stone Award at the OSA. He exhibited extensively and showed with the OSA [1942-68], RCA, CNE and at numerous public and commercial galleries. He is represented in many public & private collections all across Canada. A painter in watercolour, oils, and acrylics, his landscapes, urban and country scenes depict Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. Tom Roberts lived and painted in Port Credit, Ontario until his death at the age of 89.

Silverberg, David (1936- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1936-

David Silverberg, 1936-
David Silverberg was born in Montréal in 1936. By the age of seven, he was already studying art under Arthur Lismer (1885-1969) at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. In 1957, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University. That same year, he studied etching and engraving with William Hayter (1901-1988) at Atelier 17 in Paris and was influenced by those around him- including Max Ernst (1891-1976) Marc Chagall (1887-1985) and Roberto Matta (1911-2002).
In 1963, Silverberg was invited to set up a printmaking department at Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B. and taught there for 32 years before moving to Wolfville, Nova Scotia in 1995. Silverberg’s work is represented in over 25 Public, government and Corporate Collections. He has had over 200 solo shows in Canada, the United States and Internationally.

Merola, Mario (1931- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1931-

Mario Merola was born in Montréal in 1931 and attended the École des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1946-1952, where he studied decoration with painter Maurice Raymond (1912-2006), Stanley Cosgrove, (1911- 2002) Umberto Bruni. (1914-2021) He served as director of the Académie Internationale des Beaux-Arts du Québec In 1952 he went to France to take a set design course at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He then attended the Place-des-arts encounter work shop after which he was hired as a costume designer at Radio-Canada. Starting in 1957, Merola produced numerous murals integrated with architecture, including one in Canadian pavilion at the Brussels Work Fair and those in Sherbrooke and Charlevoix Metro stations.

BUArtColl · Person · 1910-1994

Lawren Phillips Harris was born at Toronto, Ontario in 1910. He was the eldest son of the Canadian artist Lawren Stewart Harris, (1885-1970) who was a founding member of the Group of Seven. Harris (Junior) studied at Toronto's Central Technical School and at the Museum of Fine Arts school Boston, Massachusetts. He worked as a teacher until February 1941 when he enlisted as an officer in the Canadian Armoured Corps. He served in Canada, the United Kingdom and Italy as a war artist.
Harris Junior left the military in June 1946 and became director of the Fine Arts department at Mount Allison University at Sackville, N.B., a position he held for over 30 years. He died in Ottawa in 1994.

Wolf, Joseph (1820-1899)
BUArtColl · Person · 1820-1899

Josef Wolf was born in the Eifel, Germany, on 22 January 1820 on a farm in Mörz in Münstermaifeld. As a child he was known for his artistic talent. After finishing school in Metternich he was trained in Koblenz from 1836 to 1839 as a lithographer.

Through the mediation of the Frankfurter explorer Eduard Rüppel (1794-1884) in 1840 he came into contact with Johann Jacob Kaup (1803-1873) at the Grand Ducal natural history collection in Darmstadt. He promoted the extraordinary talent of the young artist and recommended him to his colleagues Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884) in Leiden and John Gould (1804-1881) in London as an illustrator.

From 1848 onward Wolf lived and worked in London, where he quickly became the most important animal painter of the 19th century.

BUArtColl · Person · 1879-1954

Born at Savannah, Georgia. Studied at the Académie Julian, Paris, under Jean Paul Laurens, (1838-1921) and Lucien Simon, (1861-1945). De Molina lived for a time (c. 1915-16) at Lennoxville, Québec.

BUArtColl · Person · 1941- 2022

David Blackwood was born in Wesleyville, Newfoundland in 1941. He graduated in 1963 from Ontario College of Art with an Honours Diploma in Drawing and Painting.
Blackwood’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally with over 90 solo shows and scores of group exhibitions. He has been the subject of two major retrospective exhibitions and the National Film Board’s 1974 Academy-Award nominated documentary film BLACKWOOD. He passed away in 2022.

Toupin, Fernand (1930-2009)
BUArtColl · Person · 1930-2009

The Québec painter Fernand Toupin was born in 1930 in Montréal. At the age of 19, he attended evening classes at the École des beaux-arts in Montreal. From 1949 to 1953, he studied painting with Jean-Paul Jerome worked under artist Stanley Cosgrove. He a signatory with Jean-Paul Jerome, Louis Belxile and Jauran of the Plastic Artists manifestation of 1955. Plasticists are opposed to the spontaneous and impulsive spot of the automatists, and for a more rigorous pictorial construction focusing on the sharpness of the line and the purity of colour. Mr. Toupin died in at Terrebonne, Québec in 2009.

Harris, Tony (1964- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1964-

Tony Harris graduated from Bishop's University in the 80's with a BA in Fine arts. He has a successful career painting Canadian golf courses however now he is known more for his Hockey player portraits. He lives and works in Ottawa, Ontario.

Heeley, Desmond (1931-2016)
BUArtColl · Person · 1931-2016

Born in 1931 in Staffordshire, England, with a career rooted in Shakesperean theare, Desmond Heeley became an influential designer not only for the dramatic stage but also for ballet and opera. Having established his name in Britain as a notable emeging designer, in 1957 Mr. Heeley was hired to design "Hamlet" at the new Festival Theatre for the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario. Between 1966 and 1993, Mr Heeley designed the sets and costumes for seven productions for the National Ballet. He died in 2016.

Gagnon, Yechel (1973- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1973-

Yechel Gagnon was born in Longueuil (Québec) in 1973. She began her studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, then received a Master's degree in visual arts at Montréal's Concordia University in 2000. Since 1996, she has had many solo exhibitions and participated in many collection exhibitions in Québec, Ontario and France. Her pieces are in numerous private collections as well as Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts, the Gotland Museum of Fine Arts (Sweden), the Osler Hoskins & Harcourt collection in Toronto.
In 1996, while studying in Ontario, Gagnon discovered the infinite qualities that plywood's stratifications had to offer and the work of Paterson Ewen (1925-2002).

Warrot, Marie-Aimée
BUArtColl · Person · 1915-1971

Marie Aimeé Warrot was born in France on the 18th of February 1915. She gave her first piano recital at the age of seven. From the age of nine she attended the Conservatoire National de Musique in Paris, until the age of fifteen when she was awarded the first prize in piano. She worked with Robert Casadesus and Alfred Cortot, and also studied in Vienna, Austria with the great pianist Emil von Sauer, who had been a student of Franz Liszt and Nicholas Rubinstein. Marie Aimée Warrot's musical tour of Europe was interrupted by World War II, and recommenced in 1944, encompassing North America in 1955. She gave recitals for television and radio, and appeared with many of the great European orchestras playing all over Europe. In 1969 Marie Aimée Warrot came to live in the Eastern Townships with her husband Bishop's University Professor Claude Treil. Marie Aimée Warrot made two critically
acclaimed musical recordings, the first in 1970 and the second in 1971. In March of 1971 she gave a last recital in Centennial Theatre at Bishop's University. She died in September of 1971.

BUArtColl · Person · 1891-1960

Hal-Ross Perrigard was born in Montréal in 1891. Although he was mostly self-taught, he did take classes from Art Association of Montréal (now Montréal Museum of Fine Arts) with both William Brymner (1855-1925) and Maurice Cullen (1866-1934) . He was part of Montréal's Beaver Hall Group and participated in Royal Canadian Academy and Art Association of Montréal exhibitions, winning the Jessie Dow prize in 1921. (The Jessie Dow prize was awarded by the Art Association of Montréal at their Annual Spring Exhibitions for excellence in oil, watercolor, and sculpture.) He belonged to the Artist Run Centres Association, the Arts Club, the Artist Guild of Canada and the North Shore Arts Association of Glouchester, The Pen and Pencil Club and Rockport Art Association. He lived and decorated the corridors of Westmount Richelieu apartments. He died in Montréal in 1960.

BUArtColl · Person · 1881-1942

Clarence Gagnon was born in 1881 in rural Québec. He is known for his Québec landscapes; in particular, the Charlevoix region and the Laurentians. He began his study of painting in 1897 under William Brymner (1855-1925) at the Art Association of Montréal (now Montréal Museum of Fine Arts). He studied in Paris at the Académie Julian under French painter Jean Paul Laurens (1838-1921). While in Paris he met other Canadian painters such as James Wilson Morrice (1865-1924) where he picked up Morrice's technique of "painting quickly on the spot". He died in Baie St. Paul, Québec, in 1942.

Briansky, Rita (1925- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1925-

Rita Briansky, painter, printmaker-etcher and teacher, was born in 1925 in Grajewo, Poland. Together with her mother and two sisters, Bella and Becky, the family moved to Ansonville, Ontario in 1929. Here, they joined Briansky’s father and his family in Ansonville, which at the time had a small Jewish community. In 1939, the family moved to Val d’Or, Quebec and finally to Montreal in 1941. Then in her mid-teens, Rita Briansky was a keen student who nourished a continued interest in art. With the move to Montreal, the Briansky Family struggled financially and was unable to afford the fee for Rita’s high school education. It was the Yiddish poet Ida Massey who found Rita a job so she would be able to pay for her schooling. This encouragement served as the beginning of a valuable friendship, as well as helping foster Briansky’s artistic career. Massey later introduced Rita to Alexander Berkowitz who at the time was giving art classes at the St. Urbain Street ‘Y’. Her training and experience quickly expanded, taking the young artist through Montreal’s Ecole des Beaux-Arts and New York’s Arts Student League. In 1949, Rita married fellow painter, Joseph Prezament.The couple had two children together, Anna and Wendy. Briansky’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions both in Canada and internationally. Her body of work is diverse in both theme and subject matter, reflecting her interests in fields such as astronomy and the natural world, while remaining deeply rooted in her own experiences. Following her travels to her birth place and memorial sites in Poland in 1995, Briansky produced the ‘Kaddish series’ as her reflection on the trauma of the Holocaust. Other series have broadly used landscape, portraiture and still lifes as a passionate response to the world around her and that speak fundamentally to the human condition. Briansky has participated in multiple collaborative projects, for example the children's book “On Stage, Please” with dancer/ choreographer Veronica Tennant. Briansky is long-established within Montreal’s art community working and living alongside a tight-knit group of artists. In addition, she has worked as teacher, both of art history and studio arts. Briansky’s artistic practice has won her multiple awards and her work is included in the permanent collections of institutions such as the National Gallery in Ottawa, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Thomson, Tom (1877-1917)
BUArtColl · Person · 1877-1917

Tom Thomson was a Canadian artist born in Ontario in 1877. He was known for his colourful paintings of the Algoma region and he was the inspiration for Group of Seven painters. He died in Algonquin Park in 1917.

Carr, M. Emily (1871-1945)
BUArtColl · Person · 1871-1945

Born in 1871 in Victoria, British Columbia, she was educated there until the age of 16. In 1888 she went to San Francisco, California, to study art, returning to Victoria in 1895 to set up a studio to paint and teach art. She had great interest in the local indigenous people and their art. She associated with and was influenced by the Group of Seven artists from the East of Canada, particularly A. Y. Jackson, J.E. H MacDonald and Lawren Harris in Toronto. She was known for her love of the Pacific Coast. As she got older and her health failed, she turned to writing and published several books. She died in 1945.

BUArtColl · Person · 1873-1932

James Edward Hervey MacDonald was born in England in 1873. He arrived in Canada in 1887 and settled in Hamilton, Ontario. In 1890 the family moved to Toronto where MacDonald became an apprentice at the Toronto Lithography Company. In1893, while still working as an apprentice, he started taking classes at Central Ontario School of Art and Designs. In 1902 he became a member of the Toronto Art Students League. In May of 1920 the first exhibition of the Group of Seven took place, of which J.E.H. MacDonald was one of the founding members. He worked at the Ontario College of Art as an instructor of decorative and commercial design. He died of a stroke in Novemeber 1932.

BUArtColl · Person · 1917-2005

Born in 1917 in Montréal, Québec, de Tonnancour was mostly self taught but did attend Montreal's l'École des Beaux-Arts for three years. The tree was a very important source of subject matter for him. He was influenced by Picasso, Matisse and Goodridge Roberts, among others. His work is represented in many collections across Canada including, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, The Art Gallery on Ontario, The London Art Gallery, Ontario, Hamilton Art Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Lord Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Hart House, Toronto and Vancouver Art Gallery.

Buffet, Bernard (1928-1999)
BUArtColl · Person · 1928-1999

Born in Paris in 1928, Bernard Buffet was a painter, lithographer, and etcher who studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts and gained early critical acclaim and fortune through his prolific output – he painted more than 8,000 works in his lifetime – and immediately recognizable stylistic manner. Active during a time when abstraction was the predominant artistic style, Buffet defended representational art and was an active member of the anti-abstraction group L’homme Témoin (The Witness-Man). He died in 1999.

Wellge, Henry (1850-1917)
BUArtColl · Person · 1850-1917

Henry Wellge was a German born lithographer who immigrated to United States in 1871. His name first appeared in Milwaukee in 1878, and from 1879 to 1884, he worked for Joseph J. Stoner, lithographer and publisher. From 1884 to 1886, Wellge was in a partnership with George E. Norris, and that firm eventually became Norris, Wellge and Company. He was known for his "Bird's Eye View" maps of Québec and many cities in America. In 1886, he formed his own company, Henry Wellge and Company. He died in 1917.

BUArtColl · Person · ca. 1719-1771

Thomas Jefferys was a prolific map publisher, engraver, and cartographer based in London. Jefferys was apprenticed to Emanuel Bowen, a prominent mapmaker and engraver and he also had several collaborators and partners throughout his career. His first atlas, The Small English Atlas, was published with Thomas Kitchin in 1748-9. Later, he worked with Robert Sayer on A General Topography of North America (1768); Sayer also published posthumous collections with Jefferys' contributions including The American Atlas, The North-American Pilot, and The West-India Atlas.
Jefferys was the Geographer to Frederick Prince of Wales and, from 1760, to King George III. Mostly due to opportunities offered by the Seven Years' War, he is best known today for his maps of North America, and for his central place in the map trade—he not only sold maps commercially, but also imported the latest materials and had ties to several government bodies for whom he produced materials.
Upon his death in 1771, his workshop passed to his partner, William Faden, and his son, Thomas Jr. However, Jefferys had gone bankrupt in 1766 and some of his plates were bought by Robert Sayer. Sayer, who had partnered in the past with Philip Overton (d. 1751), specialized in (re)publishing maps. In 1770, he collaborated with John Bennett and many Jefferys maps were republished by the duo.

BUArtColl · Person · 1926- 2006

Kenneth Lochhead studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in 1950 became Director of the University of Saskatchewan School of Art in Regina. In 1955, Lochhead initiated the Emma Lake Professional Artists' Workshops, which attracted artists such as Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Jack Shadbolt and the critic Clement Greenberg. The summer workshops brought about a renaissance in Saskatchewan art and helped propel it onto the international scene. Lochhead also became known as one of the ‘Regina Five’ painters that first exhibited together at the National Gallery in 1961 and who were considered to be at the forefront of modernist art in Canada.

After Regina, Lochhead continued to teach painting and drawing at the University of Manitoba, York University and the University of Ottawa. He retired in 1990 to devote his time to working at his studio in the Gatineau hills. A ‘painter’s painter’, Lochhead’s work is known for its’ compositional finesse and often exuberant use of colour. A retrospective of Lochhead’s work, entitled ‘Garden of Light 1948 to 2002’, was shown last year at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina.

Lochhead was an Officer of the Order of Canada, a recipient of an Honorary Doctors of Laws, University of Regina, and a 2006 recipient of the Governor-General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. He died in 2006 at the age of 80 after a long illness.

Excelsior Glass Company
BUArtColl · Corporate body · 1878-1883

The Foster Brothers of the St. John, Québec (now known as Saint-Jean-sur Richelieu) glass factory was bought by the Yuile Brothers in 1878 and renamed the Excelsior Glass Company. In 1880 they moved the operation to Montréal and remained there until 1883. In 1883, they transferred to another location in Montréal and changed the name to the North American Glass Company, incorporated in 1883. The firm operated under that name until 1891 when it became the Diamond Glass Company. Operations were carried on under that name until 1902. In that year, the name was changed to the Diamond Flint Glass Company Ltd. The Diamond Flint Glass Company Ltd. acquired control of the all-important Burlington Glass Works, the Hamilton Glass Works, the Nova Scotia Glass Company of Trenton, Nova Scotia, the Lamont Glass Company, and, through its successor the Diamond Flint Glass Company, additional glass factories in Québec and Ontario.

Rosa, Salvator (1615-1673)
BUArtColl · Person · 1615-1673

Rosa was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, as well as a print-maker, poet and author of satires. He was active in Naples, Rome and Florence, and best known for his unconventional and romantic landscapes, as well as his rebellious nature. Rosa was indisputably a leader in that tendency towards the romantic and picturesque, called a proto-romantic. His landscapes avoided the idyllic and pastoral calm in the landscapes of Claude Lorrain (1600 – 1682) and Paul Bril (1554 – 1626), and created brooding, melancholic fantasies, awash in ruins and brigands. As a writer, Rosa was equally romantic in his descriptions and rebellious in his attitude towards convention.
Rosa began his training in Naples, notably with his future brother-in-law, Francesco Francanzano (1612 – 1657), who trained under the influential Spanish painter, Jusepe de Ribera (1591 – 1652), who Rosa may have trained with as well. It is also said that Rosa may have trained with the Naples painter, Aniello Falcone (1600 – 1665), who was also an apprentice to Ribera. After a brief trip to Rome, he returned to Naples and began painting his wildly romantic landscapes, eventually returning to Rome after 1638 painting one of his only altarpieces, Incredulity of Thomas.