Ontario, Nova Scotia / Canada, England. 1878 - 1958
Marine, landscape, figure, and portrait painting, teaching
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1925 - 1996. Known for: Painting.
Joe Norris is described as "the Dean of Nova Scotia folk painters" and "the Matisse of folk art". Joe spent most of his life in the small hamlet of Lower Prospect, Nova Scotia. After working in the... Read full biography
Joe Norris is described as "the Dean of Nova Scotia folk painters" and "the Matisse of folk art". Joe spent most of his life in the small hamlet of Lower Prospect, Nova Scotia. After working in the fishing and construction trades, Joe Norris started painting when a severe heart attack forced him... Read full biography
Joe Norris is described as "the Dean of Nova Scotia folk painters" and "the Matisse of folk art". Joe spent most of his life in the small hamlet of Lower Prospect, Nova Scotia. After working in the fishing and construction trades, Joe Norris started painting when a severe heart attack forced him into early retirement in 1972. By 1975, when he was "discovered" by antique dealer Chris Huntington, he was selling paintings to local people and to the occasional tourist. His work includes painted... Read full biography
Joe Norris is described as "the Dean of Nova Scotia folk painters" and "the Matisse of folk art". Joe spent most of his life in the small hamlet of Lower Prospect, Nova Scotia. After working in the fishing and construction trades, Joe Norris started painting when a severe heart attack forced him into early retirement in 1972. By 1975, when he was "discovered" by antique dealer Chris Huntington, he was selling paintings to local people and to the occasional tourist. His work includes painted chairs, tables and chests as well as paintings, and is found in the collections of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, and in many corporate and private art collections throughout North... Read full biography
Joe Norris is described as "the Dean of Nova Scotia folk painters" and "the Matisse of folk art". Joe spent most of his life in the small hamlet of Lower Prospect, Nova Scotia. After working in the fishing and construction trades, Joe Norris started painting when a severe heart attack forced him into early retirement in 1972. By 1975, when he was "discovered" by antique dealer Chris Huntington, he was selling paintings to local people and to the occasional tourist. His work includes painted chairs, tables and chests as well as paintings, and is found in the collections of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, and in many corporate and private art collections throughout North America. A hardcover book, Joe Norris - Painted Visions of Nova Scotia, was published in 2000, in conjunction with... Read full biography
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Impressionist genre, landscape, marine, figure, and cityscape painting
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Hard-edge, plasticien painting, sculpture, symbol and logo design
Quebec / Canada. 1930 - 2013
Modernist painting, sculpture, teaching
Canada. Born 1941
Painting
Canada. Born 1950
Painting, landscape
Ontario / Canada. 1904 - 1992
Landscape, figure, genre painting
Ontario / Canada. 1933 - 2000
Abstract expressionist painting
Canada. Born 1940
Painting
Canada. Born 1948
Painting
Canada. Born 1942
City scene, rural landscape
Massachusetts, Quebec / Canada. 1943 - 2014
Paintings, murals, illustrations, design, prints
Quebec / Canada. 1928 - 2006
Modernist painting
Ontario / Canada. 1931 - 1998
Abstract expression-grid painting
Ontario / Canada. 1898 - 1994
Modernist rural landscape and figure painting, illustration
Ontario, Manitoba / Canada, Poland. 1926 - 2008
Back yard row house view paintings
Quebec / Canada. 1917 - 2005
Abstract figure and landscape painting, teaching
British Columbia / Canada, England. 1903 - 1990
Abstract floral, animal, figural, and landscape painting-mountains
Ontario / Canada. Born 1942
Easel and mural painting, printmaking, sculpture, and teaching
Ontario, Alberta / Canada, England. 1887 - 1986
Portrait, landscape and still life painting, writing, teaching
Ontario / Canada. 1941 - 1986
Portrait and landscape painting
Ontario / Canada. 1927 - 1999
Designer, figure sculpture, carving
Quebec / Canada. 1929 - 1997
Painting, illustration, editorial cartoons
Newfoundland and Labrador, Massachusetts / Canada. 1931 - 2003
Landscape paintings, prints, art education
Quebec / Canada, Spain. Born 1927
Easel and mural painting, printmaking design, sculpture
Canada. Born 1950
Painting
Ontario / Canada. 1924 - 2006
Abstract expressionist painting, commercial art
Ontario, Quebec / Canada. 1944 - 1977
Bird and animal painting
Quebec / Canada. 1898 - 1979
Landscape, buildings, riverscapes and still life painting
Canada. Born 1941
Painting
Ontario / Canada, Russian Federation. 1898 - 1986
Self portrait, still life and landscape painting-social issues, drawing
Quebec / Canada. 1912 - 1945
Genre, interior, landscape and figure painting, rug hooking