Clutching a blanket around her frame, Cornelius Krieghoff’s Moccasin Seller of c.1853–63 treks through a frozen landscape to sell her moccasins to the tourists and inhabitants of Quebec’s burgeoning cities.
Sophie Ristelhueber is known for her depiction of landscape in the aftermath of conflict. Her work "WB" speaks effectively to the role of art in contemporary geopolitics.
In the 1880s British photographer Peter Henry Emerson captured a series of atmospheric images of the landscape and the working people of Norfolk in eastern England.
In "remembering you (mute pictures)" Jayce Salloum combines photography, painting, audio and text in a format that enables the work to remain fluid and exist in different incarnations.
Associated with many avant-garde movements throughout his career, the artist and poet Francis Picabia never adhered to one movement. His sarcastic and playful view on life is a common theme.
The Brian Jungen retrospective on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario features sculptures, paintings, film, drawings and installation work that span the career of this internationally acclaimed artist.
J.E.H. MacDonald's seven trips to the Rocky Mountains proved a major source of inspiration. His 1928 painting exemplifies his fascination with the landscape of Yoho National Park.
In her paintings, Prudence Heward depicted women, whom she portrayed as self-contained, even defiant, and whose gazes often directly met that of the viewer.
