Reference: Nationally and internationally acclaimed artist, Joe Fafard, was born September 2, 1942 to French-Canadian parents in the small agricultural community of Ste. Marthe, Saskatchewan and passed away peacefully at home on his farm near Lumsden on March 16th, 2019. Joe attended the University of Manitoba (BFA 1966) and Pennsylvania State University (MFA 1968). He was at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina from 1968–1974 and visiting lecturer at the University of California at Davis in 1980-1981. During his lifetime, Joe Fafard was a distinguished full-time artist and sculptor who lived his entire life on the Canadian Prairie; for more biographical information and examples of his work see artist's website at www.joefafard.com
see A Souvenir Album of Joe Fafard's Pensees, published by Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1973; Joe Fafard, Cows and Other Luminaries 1977-1987, by Matthew Teitelbaum, published by Mendel Art Gallery, 1987; Joe Fafard: The Bronze Years published by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1996; Joe Fafard, by Terrence Heath, published by National Gallery of Canada, 2007; Joe Fafard: Retailles, by Jennifer McRorie and Kim Houghtaling, published by Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery, 2016; Joe Fafard, 'Til the Cows Come Home, by Terrence Heath, Slate Fine Art Gallery, 2017; included in Visions, Contemporary Art in Canada, edited by Russell Keziere, pg. 128, 1984; National Gallery of Canada Vol. 1 A-F, edited by Charles C. Hill, pg. 304, 1988; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by Anthony R. Westbridge, Vol. 1, pg. 108, published by Westbridge, 1999; biographies in Saskatchewan: Art and Artists, by Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, pg. 29, 1971; Biographical Dictionary Of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by Marketa Newman, pg. 86, published by Fifth House, 1994; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

Reference: see artist's website at joefleming.com; represented by Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: biography and other examples in
Founders of the A.C.A., by V.Greenfield, pg.81;
Shell Canada Collection, by B.Shammas, pg.16, Shell Canada, Calgary, 1977;
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.1, pg. 116, Westbridge Pub., 1999

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: To read an article in the Calgary Journal, click here. Flodberg exhibited his Matters of Denial series at the Art Gallery of Calgary in 2008.
For more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at www.chrisflodberg.com

see Chris Flodberg: Paintings published by Douglas and McIntyre/Masters Gallery, 2016;

biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by Anthony R. Westbridge, Vol. 1, pg. 116, Westbridge Publishing, 1999;

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: see artist's website at www.jonathanforrest.com;

Jonathan Forrest is an abstract painter who divides his studio time between Vancouver Island and small town Saskatchewan, Canada. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and immigrated with his family to Canada in 1977.
Forrest studied at the University of Saskatchewan receiving his BFA in 1983 and his MFA in 1991. Jonathan has participated in several artists’ workshops including The Emma Lake Artists’ Workshop (1985, 1988, 1991, 2001, 2003 and 2005), The Saskatchewan Invitational artists’ workshop, Emma Lake (2000), and Triangle Artists’ Workshop, Brooklyn, NY (2002).
His work has been shown in Western Canada in museums including the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, The Edmonton Art Gallery and The Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina. In 2021, the Art Gallery of Swift Current organized a survey exhibition, which followed the trajectory of Jonathan Forrest’s painting practice from 2002 to 2019.

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: see Fortin, by Jean-Rene Ostiguy, National Gallery of Canada, no date; Marc-Aurele Fortin en Gaspesie, by Jean-Pierre Bonneville, Editions internationales Alain Stanke Ltee, 1980; biography and other examples in N.G.C. Vol.1, A-F, ed.C.Hill, pg.384 and A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.117; Printmaking in Quebec, 1900-1950, by D.Martin, pg.82, Musee du Quebec, 1988; see Esso Resources' Canadian Art Collection: Historical Selections 1779-1962, pg. 30, Esso Resources,1988; exhibition list in R.C.A.A., pg.130 and M.M.F.A., pg.129, by E.McMann; biography in Dict. of Canadian Artists - Vol.1, by C.MacDonald, pg.223

Reference: biography and other examples in
Shell Canada Collection, by B.Shammas, pg.17, Shell Canada, Calgary, 1977;
Artists of British Columbia, by B.Morys-Edge, pg.45, Chartwell Pub., 1986;
Contemporary Western Artists, by P.Samuels, pg.198, Bonanza Books, 1982;
Visual Arts Newsletter, Vol.13, No.4, Dec. 1991, pg.14;
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.1, pg.123, Westbridge Pub., 1999;
Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, Band 44, pg. 317, K.G. Saur Verlag Munchen-Leipzig, 1983-2009

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

Reference: see N.G.C. Vol.2, G-K, by C.Hill, pg.3; A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.126; E.P.E.C., by R.Harper, pg.123; biographies in Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.2, pg.242 and Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.1, Westbridge Pub., 2000; included in From Ocean to Ocean: Nineteenth Century Water Colour Painting in Canada, by J.Adamson, pg.5, A.G.O., 1978; Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, by E.Benezit, Tome 4, pg.125; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.140 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.137

Reference: listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website; represented by Bugera Matheson Gallery, Edmonton

Reference: see artist’s website at debragarside.com

Reference: biography in Dict. of Canadian Artists - Vol.2, by C.MacDonald, pg.253; exhibition list in R.C.A.A., pg. 145 and M.M.F.A., pg.141 by E.McMann; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: see artist's web site https://mariannagartner.com; represented by Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: for biographical detail and more examples of work see artist's website www.robertgenn.com

see
Robert Genn: In Praise of Painting, by R.Genn, Merritt Publishing, 1981;
Love Letters to Art, by Robert Genn, Studio Beckett Publications, 2008;
Robert Genn The Twice-Weekly Letters, by Robert Genn, Studio Beckett Publications, 2010

Shell Canada Collection, by B.Shammas, pg.18, Shell Canada, Calgary, 1977;
Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.2, addendum;
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.8, Westbridge Pub., 2000;
Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, Band 51, pg. 337, K.G. Saur Verlag Munchen-Leipzig, 1983-2009

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

Reference: see artist's website terrygilecki.com; represented by White Rock Gallery, White Rock, B.C.

Reference: for biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at www.rolandgissing.com

see Roland Gissing, The People's Painter, by M.Foran, UofC Press, 1988

biography and other examples in Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.2 pg.278 Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.12, Westbridge Pub., 2000; The Alberta Society of Artists: Sixty Years, by M.Joslin, E.A.G., 1992 Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955 Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, Band 55, pg. 369, K.G. Saur Verlag Munchen-Leipzig, 1983-2009

exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., by E.McMann, pg.149 M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.145

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

Reference: see A Lifelong Journey, The Art and Teaching of H.G. Glyde, by Patricia Ainslie, published by Glenbow Museum, 1987; included in Founders of the Alberta College of Art, by Valerie Greenfield, pg. 82, 1986; National Gallery of Canada Vol. 2, G-K, edited by Charles C. Hill, pg. 35, 1988; Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by Bente Roed Cochran, pg. 33-34, 1989; Dictionary of Canadian Artists, by Colin MacDonald, Vol. 2 pg. 283; exhibition at the Glenbow Museum in conjunction with the Group of Seven in the West exhibition, fall 2002; exhibition lists in Royal Canadian Academy of Arts: Exhibitions and Members 1880-1970, by Evelyn McMann, pg. 149, 1981; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts formerly Art Association of Montréal Spring Exhibitions 1880 - 1970, by Evelyn McMann, pg. 146, 1988; biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by Anthony R. Westbridge, Vol. 2, pg. 13, Westbridge Publishing, 2000; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: see
Five Painters from Regina, by the N.G.C., 1961;
Ted Godwin, the Tartan Years 1967-1976, by A.Davis, Nickle Arts Museum, 1999;
Lower Bow, A Celebration of Wilderness, Art and Fishing, by T.Godwin, MacKenzie Art Gallery exhibition, 1991

biography and other examples in
The 75th Anniversary Edition, by A.Schmidt, University of Alberta Faculty of Extension, 1987;
N.G.C. Vol.2, G-K, ed.C.Hill, pg.37;
Founders of the A.C.A., by V.Greenfield, pg.83;
Biographical Dict. of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by M.Newman, pg. 99, Fifth House Pub., 1994;
Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.2, pg. 14;
Westbridge,Vol.2, pg.285

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

Reference: included on Alberta Foundation for the Arts website

Reference: biography and other examples in Art in Victoria 1960/1986, by N.Tuele, A.G.G.V.; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.19, Westbridge Pub., 2000

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

Reference: see artist's website at francinegravel.com; see Gravel, by J.Duciaume, B.Roed, Editions Marcel Broquet, 1988; Alberta Art: Works from the A.A.F., by the A.A.F., for biography and other examples; Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, B.Cochran, pg.75-76; Artists of the Okanagan, by J.Davis, pg.47, Okanagan Mainline Seniors Writers, 1988; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.21, Westbridge Pub., 2000; October 2002 exhibition at Scott Gallery, Edmonton; see Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, Band 61, pg. 35, K.G. Saur Verlag Munchen-Leipzig, 1983-2009; represented by Scott Gallery, Edmonton

Reference: represented by Masters Gallery, Calgary

Reference: born in Netherlands and immigrated to Canada in 1955. Haeseker received BFA [1966] from University of Calgary and diploma from Alberta College of Art [1968].She has also received Master of Arts degree in 1972 from the University of Calgary. Haeseker instructed painting, drawing and printmaking at ACAD from 1973-2003 and is now a Lecturer Emeritus at AUArts. Recent international exhibitions include The Elisabeth Anna-Palais in Germany [2015]; The Lamego Art Museum in Portugal [2016]; the Ardel Museum in Thailand [2017]; The Taoxichuan Art Museum in China [2018]; and Edinburgh Printmakers in Scotland [2020]; for biographical information and examples of work see gallery website at www.glenhyrst.ca/haeseker-alexandra
see Alexandra Haeseker, Twenty Years, by L.Smith, A.C.A., 1992; A Measure of Success: Graduates of the A.C.A., by V.Greenfield, pg.83, A.C.A., 1985; Artists of Alberta, by S.Baker, pg.57, U. of Alberta Press, 1980; Selected View: The Longstaffe Collection 1959-1984, by L.Farrell-Ward, V.A.G., pg.60; Western Untitled, by T.Heath, 1976; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.27, Westbridge Pub., 2000; included in the University of Calgary Millenium Portfolio, 1999 as alumna; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: Adeline Halvorson has exhibited for many years at the Calgary Stampede and her painting was selected for the Calgary Stampede 2014 poster.
for more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at adelinehalvorson.com

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

Reference: see
John Hammond Retrospective Exhibition, by L.Rombout, Owens Art Gallery, 1967;

biography and other examples in
N.G.C. Vol.2, G-K, ed.C.Hill, pg.82;
The Mountains and the Sky, by L.Render, pg.73;
E.P.E.C., by R.Harper, pg.144;
Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.2, pg.358;
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.33, Westbridge Pub., 2000;
Robson, pg.55

exhibition list in R.C.A.A., by E.McMann, pg.169 M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.159

Reference: see History of Batoche, Paintings by Hans Herold, by P.Wright, [no date]

biography and other examples in
Biographical Dict. of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by M.Newman, pg.118, Fifth House Pub., 1994;
Shell Canada Collection, by B.Shammas, pg.23;
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.48, Westbridge Pub., 2000

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

Reference: listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: biography and other examples in
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.61, Westbridge Pub., 2000;
Shell Canada Collection, by B.Shammas, pg.23

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

Reference: listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]