Bruno Bobak: Love, Life and Death

Take a closer look at Bruno Bobak’s fascination with the human body and soul through his Expressionist images of lovers, family relations, life cycle, and portraits. His images contemplate our human condition from tender moments to despair.

Bruno Bobak
Lovers, 1980
oil on canvas
122.5 x 101.0 cm
Gift of the Artist
Beaverbrook Art Gallery
1998.58

Defiant Spirits:
The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven

October 2, 2010 to January 30, 2011

Examine the stylistic evolution in the landscape paintings of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, whose paintings were grounded in the elements of Canadian landscape but also took their cues from the modernist approaches to painting developed in Europe. This exhibition, organized by the McMichael, will show how the artists used a palette of modern techniques, blending Impressionism,Art Nouveau, and Neo-Impressionism, Synthetism and Fauvism.

Tom Thomson, (1877-1917)
Byng Inlet, Georgian Bay, 1914-1917
oil on canvas
71.5 x 76.3 cm
Purchase with the Assistance of Donors and Wintario
McMichael Canadian Art Collection