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Love lost: tales of loss and despair

Artists and authors have often preferred to depict doomed and despairing love, for images of troubled and failed relationships are charged with compelling drama.

Tranquility and Harmony: Carl Moll's Painting of Family Life

Carl Moll's painting "At the Lunch Table" captures a quiet moment of daily life, a snapshot of serenity and calm expressed in his meticulous and illuminated style.

Stepping Stones: Expanding the Otherworldly Universe of M.C. Escher

With his incomparable printmaking skills, the graphic artist M.C. Escher created extraordinary visual worlds in his realist style. The latest donation by his son George Escher includes some of the rarest works...

The Great War: A Hundred Years On

During the First World War many Canadian and British artists confronted and recorded the devastation and horror of the 'War to End all Wars'.

Masks and metaphors: Rosalind Fox Solomon’s "Hallowe’en"

Photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon wants her images to evoke individual interpretation as well as draw a strong or unexpected emotional response.

How Collections are Made and Shaped: Deaccessioning de-mythified

The life of a public collection is marked by continual review, ensuring that it fulfills its mission and remains relevant.

Andrew Wright’s Photography and the Art of Trespassing

Wright’s photography can confound, turn askew, upset or even antagonize, but it always prompts a new perspective and perhaps greater clarity.

The Shaman’s Legacy: The Inuit Angakuq Coat from Igloolik

A Shaman's experience inspired a unique work of wearable art, as beautiful in technique as it is bold in design.

Expressive and refined: study for 'A Flood Scene' by Anne-Louis Girodet

An early drawing by Anne-Louis Girodet captures his earliest reflections on a subject that would continue to preoccupy the artist over many years.

Realism with an air of mystery: The life and art of Christiane Pflug

Esther remembers vividly the day her artist mother, Christiane Pflug, painted her portrait in the open doorway of their Toronto home.
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