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Welcome to the Art Canada Institute | Art Canada Institute Art Canada Institute | Institut De L'Art Canadien Menu About About Our History Land Acknowledgement Diversity, Equity & Inclusion ACI Team Sara Angel, Founder and Executive Director Board of Directors Our Donors and Sponsors Institutional Partners Programs Praise for ACI Jobs at ACI Contact Books Books Canadian Online Art Book Project Print Books Submission Guidelines Education Education About Our Education Program Teacher Resource Guides Student Challenge Independent Student Learning Activities Frequently Asked Questions Education Newsletters Fellowship Fellowship About the Fellowship Inside the Fellowship Experience Fellowship Eligibility How to Apply Frequently Asked Questions Supported Research Explore Canadian Art Explore Canadian Art Spotlight The Essay Online Exhibitions Videos on Canadian Artists Glossary of Canadian Art History Living Histories Events Newsletters Donate Connect Follow ACI on Twitter Subscribe to ACI on Youtube Follow ACI on Instagram Watch ACI on Vimeo Follow ACI on Pinterest Fr Subscribe Donate X Launching April 1, 2026 REGINA ART & ARTISTS An Illustrated History By Philip Dombowsky Now Live Alex Colville Life & Work By Ray Cronin The Essay From Paris to Montreal Impressionism had a short life in Canada but Helen McNicoll played a key role in its arrival By Samantha Burton NEWS Call for Applications: The New Voices Publishing Fellowship Write the next chapter on art in Canada. LEARN MORE The Essay The Art of Words Language played a key role in Greg Curnoe’s work By Judith Rodger Previous Next Welcome to the ACI “Breathing digital life into Canadian art.” The Globe and Mail “Redefining the conversation about Canadian art history.” Maclean’s History Launched in 2013, the ACI is an indispensable resource on Canada’s visual heritage. LEARN MORE We want you to be a part of the conversation on Canadian art and its history regardless of your access to bricks-and-mortar museums or knowledge level. ACI offers an ever-growing online, open-source comprehensive bilingual library and a wide range of resources on the artists who have defined this country’s cultural landscape. We are committed to the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusivity in all aspects of our programming, staffing, and governance. We celebrate and support Canadian artists of all backgrounds, inclusive of all BIPOC and LGBTQ2S+ communities. Our library of open-source books and our K-12 education programs reach hundreds of thousands in Canada and abroad. Based at Massey College at the University of Toronto, the Art Canada Institute is a not-for-profit educational organization and a registered Canadian charity. LEARN MORE “Breathing digital life into Canadian art.” The Globe and Mail “Redefining the conversation about Canadian art history.” Maclean’s “The best news in Canadian art in a long time.” The National Gallery of Canada “A comprehensive, multi-tiered resource.” Canadian Art Magazine Our Mission We are dedicated to making Canadian art history a multi-vocal contemporary conversation. LEARN MORE Your Weekly Highlight of Canadian Art: Sign Up Now Subscribe to receive our topical newsletters every Friday on the nation’s groundbreaking art and artists. Sign Up Here Visit the ACI Library Marion Nicoll By Catharine Mastin Halifax Art & Artists By Ray Cronin Hannah Maynard By Elizabeth Anne Cavaliere Quebec City Art & Artists By Michèle Grandbois Alfred Pellan By Maria Rosa Lehmann Carl Beam By Anong Migwans Beam Sophie Pemberton By Kathryn Bridge Takao Tanabe By Ian Thom Margaret Watkins By Mary O’Connor Doris McCarthy By John G. Hatch Eli Bornstein By Roald Nasgaard Tim Whiten By Carolyn Bell Farrell Previous Next Spotlight The Weight of Absence Mary Pratt’s Eggs in an Egg Crate, 1975 transforms a tragic event into a moving still-life. View Now Spotlight Capturing the Lion How Yousuf Karsh took his most famous portrait. By Melissa Rombout Nostalgic narrative How Reid’s idyllic painting The Story cemented his reputation. By Brian Foss Setting New Boundaries How the art collective Kiss & Tell fought lesbian erasure in Drawing the Line. By Kristen Hutchinson Drifting through Meaning Giorgia Volpe recycled materials to create powerful commentary on culture and the environment. By Michèle Grandbois Glass Transformations Unpacking the layers of meaning in Tim Whiten’s Lucky, Lucky, Lucky, 2010. By Carolyn Bell Farrell Royal Representation How the iconic portrait of Queen Elizabeth II led to “a Karsh in every pocket.” By Melissa Rombout Breaking the Frame Exploring Tom Forrestall’s meticulous realism. By Ray Cronin Painting the Unseen How Takao Tanabe reveals more than meets the eye in Cormorant Island, Looking South. By Ian Thom The Face as a Canvas Suzy Lake’s The Natural Way to Draw came from her earliest artistic inspirations. By Erin Silver Boy in Blue How Little Boy Blue, 1897, marked a turning point for Sophie Pemberton. By Kathryn Bridge Unpacking Identity Norman Takeuchi’s Hastings Park and the echoes of Japanese Canadian internment of the 1940s. By Jim Burant Cutting Edge How Michael Snow’s Venus Simultaneous experimented with cut out figures and forms. By Martha Langford Previous Next The Essay The Patriotic Painter Greg Curnoe’s Canada Read Now Read Now Brush with Revolution Paraskeva Clark meets Dr. Norman Bethune By Christine Boyanoski From the Ear to the Eye Music guided the work of post-Plasticien painter Yves Gaucher By Roald Nasgaard Online Exhibition Prudence Heward’s Modern Women Curated by Julia Skelly View Now Online Exhibitions Close to Home Homer Watson’s Canadian Landscape Painting Curated by Brian Foss Through the Lens of C.D. Hoy How a Chinese Canadian Photographer Memorialized a Community CANADIAN SCHOOLS ART EDUCATION PROGRAM Our teacher resource guides facilitate the study of all subjects through Canadian art and artists for students in grades K to 12. LEARN MORE Download Teacher Guides Previous Next Glossary of Canadian Art History A comprehensive dictionary of art movements, styles, and persons who have shaped the Canadian scene. LEARN MORE Sharing Now @artcaninstitute In January 1927, a selection of Bertram Brooker’s most recent abstracts, like “Abstraction, Music,” 1927, were given a modest show at the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto, which was widely hailed as the first solo exhibit of non-objective work in Canada. This came near the beginning of an extraordinarily productive period of his artmaking, from 1927 to 1931, when he painted a series of masterful abstract canvases. View Post > Watch Art Fraud & The Group of Seven Jon S. Dellandrea, author and Chair Emeritus of the Art Canada Institute Board of Directors, discusses his new book, The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case. 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