Krieghoff: Images of Canada

From June 22, 2001 to October 8, 2001

This first major retrospective of Krieghoff's work brings together more than one hundred oil paintings and prints from across Canada. The exhibition explores the importance of Krieghoff's role as an interpreter of nineteenth-century Canadian life and landscape, and particularly his distinctive and sensitive depictions of Native peoples and rural Québécois. A German immigrant to Canada in 1840, Cornelius Krieghoff painted the new world he encountered, filling his renderings of local habitant life with Bruegel-like satirical humour, ironical anecdote and brilliant colours. This traveling exhibition was organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and includes ten works by Krieghoff from the McCord's own extensive collection of documentary and historical art. The exhibit's presentation at the McCord Museum will include an exclusive viewing of a newly discovered Krieghoff canvas recently acquired by the McCord and entitled The Shakspeare Club.

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