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Before establishing himself as a pioneering member of the dada movement during and after World War I, Picabia experimented with various forms of modernist painting. Procession, Seville belongs to a group of works from 1912 in which the artist demonstrates a sophisticated and highly idiosyncratic assimilation of recent developments in cubism and futurism.[1] Fragmented planes, shallow space, and an allover pattern of flickering lights and darks are all associated with the analytic cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque;
Guggenheim Museum, New York; Cincinnati Art Museum; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Boulevard—Paris) 1897, Calcutta (no. 209, as A Wet Day on the Boulevard) 1897, Toronto

Vlaminck is often portrayed as the most unruly painter of the fauve school, an impression that reflects both on his personality (as it is revealed in his biography and writings) and his work. A self-taught artist, Vlaminck insisted that painting should be the unmediated expression of an artist’s temperament, „emotive, tender, ferocious, as natural as life itself.“ [1] Indeed, having been an anarchist sympathizer during the prewar period, he would later link the strident colorism and bold brushwork of his work to social and political dissent, a connection that was actually made by several art critics.
York; Minneapolis Institute of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Toronto

Minneapolis Institute of Arts; San Francisco Museum of Art; The Art Gallery of Toronto

Piet Mondrian intended his abstract or so-called „neo-plastic“ paintings to express his fundamentally spiritual notion that universal harmonies preside in nature. The horizontal and vertical elements of his compositions, assiduously calibrated to produce a balanced asymmetry, represented forces of opposition that parallel the dynamic equilibrium at work in the natural world.
Design, Providence, 1966, no. 112 Piet Mondrian 1872-1944, The Art Gallery of Toronto

Braque was raised in the Normandy port town of Le Havre, where he first studied art. His early work was characterized by a conservative impressionist manner derived from artists such as Eugène Boudin and Johan Barthold Jongkind.
York; Minneapolis Institute of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Toronto

In the spring of 1826, Thomas Cole met Robert Gilmor Jr., a highly knowledgeable and sophisticated Baltimore collector, who soon commissioned a view of Catskill Mountain House, a popular hotel overlooking the Hudson River Valley. After a summer spent sketching and painting in the area and corresponding with his patron concerning the selection of a new subject, Cole completed Sunrise in the Catskills in early December and had it delivered to Baltimore on Christmas Day.
Newark, London, and Toronto, 1988: 22, 43-45, pl. 2. 1990 Powell, Earl A., III

Women at work provided inspiration for Degas. In addition to ballet dancers and cabaret singers, he also painted milliners and dressmakers, laundresses and ironers—such as the young woman here.
Impressionism in the Age of Industry: Monet, Pissarro and More, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Hostilities between North American colonists and Britain were boiling over in the 1770s when Benjamin West painted this double portrait. The British wanted to ensure the loyalty of the Mohawk people, the easternmost tribe of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), in case of war.
1984 Georgian Canada: Conflict and Culture, 1745-1820, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

A ragtag group of people gathers around an elderly man holding a violin. He pauses, as if interrupted mid performance, and gazes directly at us.
Boston & Toronto, 1969: 168. Farwell, Beatrice.