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unusual facts about Canadian art



Endel Ruberg

Endel Ruberg’s artwork won over 50 awards and prizes, among them the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Jubilee Medal (1978) for his contribution to Canadian art.

Henrietta Shore

Henrietta Shore (1880–1963) was a post-impressionist Canadian painter who exhibited contemporaneously with Georgia O'Keeffe and influenced the photographer Edward Weston.


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Barker Fairley

Although educated and brought up in a strong European tradition and background, Fairley's important life's scholarship in German literature and art criticism was done in Canada and was about Canadian art and Canadian culture.

Reesa Greenberg

In addition to publishing numerous essays on contemporary Canadian art and artists, she has written extensively on the theory and practice of exhibition experience in the contemporary museum, most notably in the book Thinking about Exhibitions (1996), that she co-edited with Sandy Nairne and Bruce W. Ferguson.