Popsters and Celebrities :: Harold Town, O.S.A., R.C.A. (1924-1990) :: Gallery Gevik

Chaplin (City Lights), 1971 lithograph, ed. 100/132, 14" × 20"	Rudolf Valentino, 1971 lithograph, ed. 3/114, 14" × 20"	Chaplin (The Champion), 1970 lithograph, ed. 177/86, 20" × 14"
Clark Gable and Joan Crawford, 1971 lithograph, ed. 5/123, 14" × 20"	William S. Hart, 1970 lithograph, ed. 16/60, 20" × 14"	Mick Jagger, 1969 lithograph, 21" × 25"
Charles Ogle, The Frankenstein Monster, 1969 lithograph, ed. 27/80, 14" × 20"	Rudolf Valentino, 1970 lithograph, ed. 13/50, 20" × 14"	Pola Negri, 1971 lithograph, ed. 28/99, 20" × 14"
Chaplin (The Cure), 1970 lithograph, ed. 147/160, 20" × 14"

Popsters and Celebrities

Harold Town was a master of many mediums. As a draftsman, he is compared to Picasso. As a painter, his first abstract expressionist works garnered for him immense acclaim. His collages and assemblages are monumental. And it is as a printmaker that he won his first international art prizes.

A movie buff, Town created a series of drawings: Silent Stars, Sound Stars, Film Stars, many of which were included in a book by that title. Town also created a stunning suite of lithographs titled Popsters and Celebrities, of his all-time favourites: Joan Crawford; Charlie Chaplin; Clark Cable and pop icons: Yoko Ono; John Lennon; and Mick Jagger, among dozens of others.

— Iris Nowell, author of the upcoming Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art

Daphne Odjig, Canadian Indigenous Artist and Icon Dies at 97. Click here for more details.

Odjig is frequently referred to as the "Grandmother of Indigenous Art." She has been the recipient of many awards, honours and recognitions for her works, to name a few: The Order of Canada, the Governor General's Award, and eight Honorary Doctorates. Her works have been shown in the National Gallery of Canada, The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Art Gallery of Ontario.

She established the first native-run fine art print house in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1971. Known as 'Odjig Indian Prints,' this print house was so successful that it evolved into an Indigenous gallery space in 1974, called the New Warehouse Gallery, run by Odjig and her husband, Chester Beavon. She was also a founding member of the Indian Group of Seven. This artistic group's purpose was to promote Contemporary Indigenous art and artists.

Alex Janvier's major retrospective, "Alex Janvier: Modern Indigenous Master" was recently on display at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Alex Janvier is one of Canada's most acclaimed contemporary Indigenous artists. His career of sixty-five years has yielded thousands of paintings, and more than twenty-five murals and public commissions.

This exhibition has now travelled to the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan until September 10th. The retrospective will end off at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Toronto. No official dates have been announced as of yet. (Photo credit: Kim Griffiths)

Gallery Gevik congratulates renowned Canadian and International abstract painter, Rita Letendre, on her first major museum retrospective exhibition outside of Québec. Rita Letendre: Fire and Light is now open until September 17, 2017 at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

This exhibition, which covers Letendre's career from the 1960's to 2000's, is co-curated by Wanda Nanibush and Georgiana Uhlyarik. The retrospective features nearly forty large-scale paintings drawn from major national public and private collections.

Letendre was widely exhibited with the artistic groups, Les Automatistes and Les Plasticiens. She has received the Governor General's Award in Visual Arts, the Prix Paul-Émile Borduas, and the Orders of Canada, Ontario and Québec. Click here for more details.