Shelley Lambe Fine Art

04/12/2023

Kingfisher dive

Photo: Gunarto Song

04/12/2023

A rare photograph of Vincent Van Gogh taken in 1873 when he was 19 years old. When the image was taken, Vincent worked for the Goupil & Cie art dealership in The Hague, shortly before being relocated to their branch in London, England. It is the only known photograph of Van Gogh's face. Credit: lori.follart.history_in_color

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04/05/2023

Today, on the first day of Passover, we highlight this remarkable painting by William Kurelek that we are fortunate to have brought recently into our permanent collection and that is on view now at the Gallery.

This image comes from a suite of 16 paintings titled Jewish Life in Canada that Kurelek painted in the 1970s to honour his friendship with the Toronto art dealer Avrom Isaacs, who offered the artist a framing job at his gallery before discovering his employee’s remarkable creative gifts. A devout Roman Catholic, Kurelek intended Jewish Life in Canada as a gesture across the cultural divide, implicitly demonstrating his open-mindedness toward Canadians of cultural and religious backgrounds different from his own.

If you're curious to learn more about Kurelek and these paintings, please join us on April 19 for a virtual conversation with Chief Curator Sarah Milroy, Executive Director Ian A.C. Dejardin, Associate Curator John Geoghegan, artist Natalka Husar and York University Professor of Canadian Jewish Studies David Koffman. And for a beautiful reproduction, you can buy our new book about the suite, available online at in the Gallery Shop!

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🖼 William Kurelek (1927–1977), Doctor's Family Celebrating Passover in Halifax, 1975, mixed media on board, 44.5 × 61 cm, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Photo: Michael Cullen, Dunnville, Ontario, © Estate of William Kurelek, courtesy of the Wynick / Tuck Gallery, Toronto

04/05/2023

04/05/2023

A.Y. Jackson, Yellowknife Forest, N.W.T., c. 1928, oil on wood panel, 21.4 x 26.7 cm. Gift of Mr. S. Walter Stewart

03/11/2023

Eight people face a total of 40 charges resulting from a police investigation into the forgery of artwork by Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau. The investigation began in Thunder Bay, Ont., and grew to include provincial police.

02/21/2023

Undergrowth || Toronto-based artist Sara Angelucci presents ten years of her art in one solo exhibition at the Varley Art Gallery of Markham.

https://ago.ca/agoinsider/undergrowth

Sara Angelucci, Nocturnal Botanical Ontario, July 30, 2021 – Bladder Campion, Teasel, Bindweed, Vetch, Daisy Fleabane, Aster, inkjet print, 85.3 x 118.8 cm. Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery