Mark Crozier: Painting Toronto Mark Crozier, 2023, Sunset on Parliament, acrylic on wood cradled panel, 16 in x 16 in, signed and dated. Price: $1400.00 Toronto artist Mark Crozier captures, in acrylic, the city in which he has lived for his entire life. Mark paints with a raw vibrant style that captures the vitality of place and shows us the city in a new and personal way.  Painting Toronto is a passion for Mark Crozier as he seeks to depict an ever-changing urban landscape while paying homage to its lasting beauty. We are excited to share Mark’s fantastic visual narrative ..read more

After a summer of renovations, a few hurdles and unexpected challenges we have opened our Toronto Art Gallery – James Rottman Fine Art. On October 1, we launched our inaugural exhibition, “Ideas on Nature“, featuring selected works by Tony Urquhart, Lauren Blakey, Henry Saxe, Biba Esaad, Douglas Haynes, Monica Morrill, Vincenzo Pietropaolo, Aidan Urquhart, Charles Sucsan, Graham Peacock, Jessica Levman and Lloyd Fitzgerald. We enjoyed a fantastic opening party with our guests, friends and community as well as a special “Artist’s Talk” event featuring Jessica Levman. Visitors have not only en ..read more

Daphne Odjig, My World, Their World, 1979, acrylic on canvas, 26 in. x 24 in., signed and dated recto. Titled verso. Price: $36,500.00 Daphne Odjig, (1919 – 2016) frequently referred to as the “Grandmother of First Nations Art in Canada”, was born in the village of Wikwemikong on Manitoulin Island. I really like this painting, (reproduced above), for its unique visual narrative, and the traditional Anishnaabe beliefs conveyed through out the composition. “My World, Their World” encompasses several important themes including the circle of life, recognized in the overall form of the painting ..read more

Aidan Urquhart, 2003, Five Easy Pieces #1, acrylic and collage on wood panel, 24 in x 24 in, signed. Price: $2,600.00 Introduction: Hi Mary, thank you for joining us to share your thoughts on Aidan Urquhart’s creations. Mary is the director/curator of the Woodstock Art Gallery in Ontario. Q: Mary, what was your initial reaction to Aidan’s work when you first came across it? A: I became aware of Aidan’s work way back in the early 2000s through his art bomb faxes. This was when fax machines were a still common feature in office settings. I always thought his Art bomb faxes were fun and fresh ..read more

Rita Letendre, Twilight Phase Series, c. 1971, oil on board, 17 in. x 28 in., signed recto. Price: $21,500.00 Rita Letendre, (1928 – 2021), was already considered to be one of the most promising Canadian artists by the late 1950s. She had found in the Automatiste movement the craving for self-expression. In this striking c. 1971 Letendre painting (reproduced above), we clearly recognize the artist’s command of colour and technical mastery. The colour registration and their saturation are extraordinary. Her new hard edge painting of the late 1960s involved itself with both light and speed ..read more

Tony Urquhart, My Garden with Rainbow, 1999, oil on masonite, 31 in. x 31 in., signed and dated, titled verso. Price: $14,500.00 Canada has lost one of its most talented visual artists this past January, our dear friend Tony Urquhart. Tony was a shape shifter, an image maker, always unconventional, he helped transform the way Canadians perceived landscape painting in the early 1960’s by re-shaping perspectives of the landscape using varied shaped supports for his paintings, including the tondos (circular paintings), as well as, the three dimensional format, including mixed media sculptures ..read more

Kazuo Nakamura, 1961, Summer Morning, oil on canvas, 25 in. x 31 in., signed and dated. Signed, titled and dated verso. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1926, Kazuo Nakamura was a teenager when he became one of the 22,000 Japanese Canadians interned during World War II at an internment camp in Tashme near Hope, B.C. After being discharged from the camp in 1944, the eighteen year old Nakamura made his way east, first to Hamilton and then to Toronto, Ontario, where he spent the remainder of his life. The young artist studied art at the Central Technical School in Toronto, as well as ..read more

Gordon Appelbe Smith, Wreck Beach, B.C., c. 1950, oil on board, 13.5 in. x 16.5 in., signed recto. Price: $8,500.00 Provenance: Collection of Norma Eldon Fetterly (1922 – 2020), sister-in-law to the artist Wreck Beach, B.C., c. 1950, by Gordon Appelbe Smith, reproduced above, is an exceedingly rare work from the artist’s early period of painting the west coast landscape. The tangle of debris is a subject that had continued to fascinate Smith throughout his life. This painting reveals aspects of the artist’s work that has been consistent throughout his career; a deep pleasure in and fascina ..read more

Charles Sucsan in 1966 at Radio-Canada interview We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of our friend and fantastic Canadian artist Charles Sucsan, who just missed his 90th birthday. The 89 year old artist had a youthfulness about him, Charles was a person full of passion and joy, and these terrific qualities were apparent in the artist’s lively compositions. Although we met Charles in his eighties, and started representing his work late in the artist’s life, we recognized that Charles continued to have the passion and curiosity of a young artist striving for his ultimate ..read more

Alexandra Luke, Rose Garden, c. 1953, oil on canvas, 14 in. x 18 in., signed recto, titled verso. Price: $8,400.00 The Rose Garden, c. 1953 (reproduced above) by Alexandra Luke is a symphony of brilliant colours and textures likened to an awakening of spring blooms in a magical garden. In this attractive painting Luke uses an arsenal of techniques; the pushing, pulling and scraping of paint layers, gestural brush strokes, tachism style mark making, techniques used to break up the picture plane in to shapes and forms that teem with energy. Alexandra Luke was born in Montreal in 1901 to an e ..read more