Hortense Gordon

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Hortense Gordon (1886 – 1961).  Hortense Mattice Gordon was a Canadian artist, arts advocate and educator : she was one of two female founding members (the other being previously featured Artist You Need To Know Alexandra...

Catherine Heard

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Catherine Heard. She is an artist, arts writer and educator. She holds an undergraduate degree from OCADU, and a Master of Visual Studies degree from the University of Toronto. Heard “is an interdisciplinary artist whose works...

Ruth Kaplan

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Ruth Kaplan. Ruth Kaplan (born 1955 in Montréal) is a Canadian “documentary-based photographer whose work explores a variety of themes such as the social behaviour of bathers in communal hot springs, congregants participating...

Alexandra Luke

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Alexandra Luke (1901 – 1967). Luke was a Canadian abstract artist who was essential to the group of artists known as Painters Eleven. Besides being one of the most significant artists of that group Luke was also a vocal...

Kathleen Munn

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Kathleen Munn (1887– 1974). Munn received little recognition during her life for her art, often being “on the periphery of the Canadian art scene during her lifetime. She imagined conventional subjects in a radically new...