Christian McKeil

Christian McKeil Artist Bio: Christian McKeil (1889-1978) Christian McKiel was born in 1889 in Pictou, Nova Scotia. From 1908 to 1911, McKiel attended Mount Allison University, graduating from the Ladies’ College with a teaching diploma in drawing. McKiel continued...

Clarence Alphonse Gagnon

Clarence Alphonse Gagnon Artist Bio: Clarence A. Gagnon (1881-1942) Clarence Gagnon was born in Montreal and studied first with William Brymner at the Art Association in Montreal and later with Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris. Gagnon was noted for his impressionistic...

Conrad Furey

Conrad Furey Artist Bio: Conrad Furey (1954-2008) Conrad Furey was a painter and sculptor whose work was largely inspired by his youth in an outport in Newfoundland. He is best known for his colourful paintings of men and women engaged in the everyday activities of...

David Silverberg

David Silverberg Artist Bio: David Silverberg David Silverberg was born in Montreal and took art classes with Arthur Lismer, after studying at McGill University in Montreal to become a geophysicist. Silverberg chose to pursue a career as an artist instead. In 1958 he...

David Whitzman

David Whitzman Artist Bio: David Whitzman, PSC (1915-2013) Nova Scotia artist David Whitzman was born in 1915 and was known mostly for painting in the plein-aire tradition in an impressionistic style through the genre of landscape. Whitzman showed an early aptitude...