Alex Janvier

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Alex Janvier Artist Bio: Alex Janvier, CM, AOE, RCA, LLD (b. 1935) Alex Javier is an established name and pioneer in contemporary First Nations art, and his artistic career spans 40 years. He is one of the three remaining members of the Indian Group of Seven. Janvier...

Alex Colville

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Alex Colville Artist Bio: Alex Colville (1920-2013) Alex Colville is one of the few Canadian artists to have achieved international status. The German art critic, Heinz Ohff, described him as perhaps “the most prominent, indeed the most important realist painter in...

Carl Beam

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Carl Beam Artist Bio: Carl Beam, RCA (1943-2005) Carl Edward Migwans, the first artist of Native Ancestry (Ojibwe), to have his work purchased by the National Gallery of Canada, and is one of Canada’s most influential artists who succeeded in eliminating the...

Alan Wylie

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Alan Wylie Artist Bio: Alan Wylie, AWCS, CIPA, SFCA (b.1938) Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Wylie studies mural design and mosaics at the Glasgow School of Art (B.F.A. 1960). He moved to Nova Scotia in 1967 before settling in British Columbia in 1974. Working in oil,...