Hanging on the wall at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the painting is believed to depict a black woman in Europe sometime in the 1700s. It's a piece of art the gallery found so striking that even ...

By Roald Nasgaard. Douglas & McIntyre/Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 432 pp, $85, hardcover. Abstract Painting in Canada meets most of the demands of a discerning coffee table: lavish illustrations ...

1700s painting enriches Norton’s collection. Scott Eyman. Claude-Joseph Vernet’s “The Fishermen” was painted in 1746, and in one sense it’s typical of the landscape and marine painters ...