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"Canada's most famous living portrait painter", Eclectic Art 2010

Canadian Author Series

Not supported in any way by the CANADA COUNCIL (over a dozen plus rejections)

Four of at least six oil portraits which will be in Canada’s Portrait Gallery, Ottawa, Canada – the Gallery is slated to open in the spring of 2004 or 2005 (the two other portraits that I know of are of Robert Weaver, and Group of Seven artist A.Y. Jackson – painted from a meeting in May of 1970

  • W.O.Mitchell & France Itani
  • Pierre Berton
  • Paul Gross
  • Northrup Frye
  • Marie-Claire Blais
  • Leon Rooke
  • Mordecai Richler, priv. coll.
  • Jack Hodgins
  • David Adams Richards
  • Hugh MacLennan
  • Robertson Davies
  • Robertson Davies, priv. coll.
  • Timothy Findlay
  • Adele Wiseman
  • George Bowering
  • Hugh Hood
  • Antonine Maillet
  • Earle Birney
  • Gérard Bissette
  • Mavis Gallant, priv. coll.
  • John Gray, Nat. Portrait Coll., A gift in memory
    of Frank Nowosad
  • Margaret Atwood, Nat. Portrait Coll., A gift in the name of Beatrice & William Nicholson
  • Irving Layton, Nat. Portrait Coll., A gift in the name of Blake Proudfoot
  • Hugh MacLennan, Nat. Portrait Coll., A gift in memory of Douglas R. Doyle
  • The artist with John Gray and his portrait, upon presenting to Canada’s National Portrait Collection
  • Gérard Bissette (Graphite Pencil)
    25 small drawings remain, at $3000 each
  • Mavis Gallant (Graphite Pencil)
    25 small drawings remain, at $3000 each
Canadian Author Series Completed
In Progress
Other Author correspondence
(All correspondence at Mount Allison University Archives)

Mavis Gallant
Robert Weaver
George Bowering
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Robertson Davies
John Gray (playwright)
Irving Layton
Margaret Atwood
Hugh MacLennan
Timothy Findlay
W.O. Mitchell
Marie-Claire Blais
Dorothy Livesay
Pierre Berton
Paul Gross (playwright)
Robertson Davies (2nd composition)
Matt Cohen
Mordecai Richler
David Adams Richards
Antonine Maillet
Earle Birney
Norman Levine
Leon Rooke
Northrup Frye
Adele Wiseman
Gérard Bissette
Hugh hood
Jack Hodgins
W.P. Kinsella
 

W.D.Valgardson
Joy Kogowa
Miriam Waddington

And 80 small drawing

Maragaret Lawrence
Marion Engel
Alice Monroe
Michel Tremblay
F.S.Scott
Leonard Cohen
Michael Ondaatje
George Woodcock
Sharon Pollock
David Godfrey
David Helwig