Saturday, July 26 from 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. join curator Sandra Paikowsky for a tour of the exhibition John Fox: A Painter in Venice. This tour will focus on John Fox's ways of seeing Venice and his ways of working. Preferring subjects off the beaten path, he was fascinated by places best known to Venetians, small squares, quiet canals, enclosed gardens, and back streets. The colour and light of Venice was the true subject of his watercolours and canvases. Their tonalities capture the essence of the city and Fox's emotive response to its shimmering sensations.
Sandra Paikowsky, CM, is an art historian, curator, writer, and Professor Emeritus of Art History at Concordia University. She was a longtime director and curator at the Concordia Art Gallery (now Ellen Gallery), co-founder and editor/publisher of the Journal of Canadian Art History, and co-editor of the McGill-Queen’s University Press/Beaverbrook series, Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History. She is the author of numerous publications on themes in 20th century Canadian art including texts on art in the Maritime Provinces, and her most recent book, James Wilson Morrice: Paintings and Drawings of Venice. In 2015, she received the Order of Canada for her contributions to Canadian art history.
