The laureates of this year's Governor General’s Awards reflect the full mix of rich and diverse Canadian talent, their work encompassing all forms of visual and media art.
The beautifully executed books created by Canada’s small presses highlight the great enthusiasm and dedication these publishers have applied to workmanship and to every aspect of production.
Commissioned by the Canadian War Memorials Fund to capture the war effort in Halifax, British artist Harold Gilman created a series of diverse and deliberative drawings to construct the final painting.
At first an amateur photographer and then professional, Alexander Henderson dedicated his life to capturing the richness of Canadian life and landscape.
William Henry Fox Talbot's "The Pencil of Nature" is probably the most famous of the early photo-illustrated books and is the first to be commercially published with actual photographic prints.
Following the Halifax Explosion, Arthur Lismer painted "Winter Camouflage", based on sketches made along the Halifax shoreline, connected to his work for the Canadian War Memorials Fund.
Paul Klee is among the most innovative painters and draftsmen of his time, an artist who married abstraction and figuration in his own unique pictorial language.
Known to posterity as the father of art photography, the multi-talented Victorian artist Oscar Gustaf Rejlander remains one of the medium’s unsung heroes.
