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Répertoire des artistes canadiens (Arts visuels)---Z

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Jan Zach, 1980, photographed by Robert Miller, image
reproduced from portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=
record;id=66373;type=101, accessed 6 April 2022.

Zach, Jan, 1914-1986, sculptor and painter (McKendry); site on the artist

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Zach, Vilem, 1946-, born in Prague, Poland (Sales Index 1989-90)

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Zach, Wilhelm, (Art Auctions 1976-1978)
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Zachariou, Dion, 1950-, (Art Auctions 1976-1978; Dictionary of Canadian Artists, vol. 1, pp. 632a-633a; artist's site


Dion Zachariou, Dion-Art in with all the Spirits, 2008, oils
on canvas, 101.5 x 76.5 cm; I would like to thank the artist for his
permission to reproduce (24 June 2018).

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Zack, Bandanna Bernice, 1943-, sculpt., (McKendry; Tippett; Art in Ontario;
------Art Gallery of Hamilton; Biographical Index of Artists in Canada;
------Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art)
Zack, David, 1938-1995, (Biographical Index of Artists in Canada; Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art)

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Zack, Étienne, 1976-, (RBC Canadian Painting Competition; Oh, Canada: Contemporary Art -- 2012;
------National Gallery of Canada -- Recent Acquisitions; Encan-bénéfice au profit des Éditions esse--2014)

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Zack, Gertrude Fouks, 1918-2011, (Biographical Index of Artists in Canada)

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Zack, Vernon, (Sales Index 1989-90)

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References in parentheses / Références entre parenthèses

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Zadak, Zdenek Anthony, 1918-1994, (Roundstone Council for the Arts; Biographical Index of Artists in Canada)

Zdenek Anthony Zadak, Head, oil on paper, 6 x 4" -- 15.24
x 10.16 cm, auction at Westbridge Fine Art Auction House,
Vancouver, 24 October 2020, lot 051, source of the image:
westbridge-fineart.com/site/item_user.php?lotID=19894&auctionID=439, accessed 7 April 2022.

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Zadden, Zanzara/Tanzara, Vancouver, (Roundstone Council for the Arts 2; Biographical Index of Artists in Canada)

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Zadorozny, Andreï M. (Andreï Michael), 1921-2001, (Artistes plasticiens par Comeau; Sales Index 1989-90;
------Magazin'art Biennial Guide 2006-2008);

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Zadowska, Barbara Bailey, 1948-, (Biographical Index of Artists in Canada)

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Publication by Arnold Zageris:

Zageris, Arnold, 1948-,  photographer(Collection Loto-Québec); artist's site



Arnold Zageris, In Torngat Caves, 2006, photographie, 1/15, 122 x 99 cm,
accompagnant l'article de Bernard Lévy, "La Collection Loto-Québec prend
la route", Vie des arts, numéro 233 hiver 2013-2014, pages 66-67, à la p. 67.
I would like to thank the artist for having given me permission to reproduce
here this image of his art (4 December 2022).

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Zaharichuk, Doris, 1917-, (Alberta Society of Artists)

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Zaharuk, Michael, 1965-,

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Zahlan de Cayetti, Sophie, 1968-, (Magazin'art, v. 5(3), printemps, 1993)
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Zahnd, Gérald, 1941-, (Vie des arts, numéro 221, vol. 45, hiver 2010-2011, p. 33; Québec en design: 75 ans de créations;
------Art public de la ville de Montréal)


Gérald Zahnd, "Becket en l'honneur de
Dieu, 1971 -- Sérigraphie/Serigraphy, 67,3 x
47 cm -- Don du/Donation by designer --
2006.279 --Présentation 1"; image and text
reproduced from the following book:
Arcand, Bernard, Université du Québec à Montréal, Centre de design, Musée national des beaux arts du Québec, Québec en design : 75 ans de créations
issues de la collection du Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec / rédaction, Bernard Arcand ... [et al.] = Québec in design : 75 years of works from
the collection of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec / rédactions, Bernard Arcand ... [et al.], Montréal : Université du Québec à Montréal,
Centre de design, c2007, 1 v. (pag. multiple), plate 178: ill. en coul. ; 23 cm. NOTES: Texte en français et en anglais. ISBN: 9782920496040.

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Zaid, Barry, 1938-,  born in Toronto (Great Canadian Posters) --en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Zaid


Barry Zaid, La petite Tonkinese, 1978, 11,5 x 9" --29 x 23 cm, en
vente chez Iegor, Succession Louis Negin, 30 mai 2023, lot 49
reproduit de live.iegor.net/voir/details/4-9X63R5/zaid-barry-1938- (site consulté le 30 mai 2023).

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Zaikoff, Danielle (ARTBOMB-- 1 August 2016; 16 July and  26 August 2017)
Zajec, Edward (Collection des livres d'artistes de la Bibliothèque nationale du Québec)
Zajfman, E. Pulver, 1948-, (Roundstone Council for the Arts; Biographical Index of Artists in Canada)
Zak, Kinga (Sheridan Institute's Illustration Program 2007 Graduating Class)
Zakharia, Camille, 1962-, (canadiens d'origine arabe)
Zakuta, Annette, potter (Allied Arts Catalogue 2)

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Zalan, Zoltan Steve, 1938-2023, (Biographical Index of Artists in Canada)

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Zamic, René, born in Thunder Bay, illustrator; artist's site 

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Zamierowski, Jersy (Jerzy, Gregor,) 1945-, (Vallée 93)

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References in parentheses / Références entre parenthèses

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Zammi (Zammitt), H. Norman, 1931-2007,  born in Toronto (Biographical Index of Artists in Canada); en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Zammitt

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Zander, Dik, 1943-, (Roundstone Council for the Arts; Biographical Index of Artists in Canada)
Zander, Hans, 1937-1998 (Toronto Dominion Bank Collection)
Zandmer, Ursula (Mrs. H.M.), 1917-2004, (Alberta Society of Artists)

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Zandorvaz (Christopher Loisel Montmagny), 1992-, né en Gaspésie; site de l'artiste

Zandorvaz (Christopher Loisel Montmagny), Tatamo, 2016, acrylique et gouache sur toile, 48" x 24";  nous remercions
l'artiste pour la permission de reproduire (8 novembre 2016).

Zandorvaz (Christopher Loisel Montmagny), Jalousie et amor,  CLM,
acrylik sur bois, 10 x 18"; nous remercions l'artiste pour la permission
de reproduire (6 juin 2016).

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Zane,  Yasmin (ARTBOMB--7, 10 and 18 May, 9, 14 and 26 June, 11, 15, 16 and 28 July, 24 September and
------13 October 2018; 7 and 26 January, 3, 4 and 24 February, 24 March and 21 April 2019)
Zangwill, Susan, (L'art au féminin)
Zaporzan, Shirley, 1937-, (Tradition ukrainienne au Canada)

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Zarand, Julius John, 1913-2011, (Biographical Index of Artists in Canada)

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Zaras, Irena, née à Varsovie, Pologne; site de l'artiste
Zare, Jacqueline, 1941-, (Artistes plasticiens par Comeau)
Zarov, Basil, 1913-1998, né à Victoria et mort à Toronto; photographe; fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Zarov

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Zarowsky, Michael (ARTBOMB--14 December 2013 and 17 April, 12, 31 May, 6, 8 and 29 June 2014;
-------5 February, 11 and 21 March, 17 June, 2 and 17 July, 5 August, 18 September, 9 and 23 November,
------17, 22 and 27 December 2015; 17 January, 3, 12, 20 and 24 February, 5, 8 and 31 March, 13 May,
------6  and 15 June, 28 September, 5 and 26 October, 4 and 20 November and 25 and 31 December 2016;
------28 January, 12 and 23 February, 10 and 23 April, 4 and 16 June, 11 August, 29 September and\
------22 December 2017; 3 January, 17 February, 1 and 11 March, 5 and 16 April, 27 May,  29 July, 24 and
------26 September, 12 and 24 October and 9 December 2018; 6 January and 16 February 2019); *artist's site

Google Image for Michael Zarowsky
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Zarski, Bogdan Kasimierz, 1949-, (Ontario Collection)
Zatzkoy, Catherine, born in Holland, fl 1960s, (Biographical Index of Artists in Canada; Artists of British Columbia) 
Zauhar, Lucille, 1932-, (Vallée 93)
Zavarella, Ashley (Sheridan Institute's Illustration Program 2007 Graduating Class)

References in parentheses / Références entre parenthèses
 
Zayed, Aimé, 1952-, (Vallée 93; Aberg)

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Zazulak, Peter, 1961-, (Caricatures 1992)

Zbitnew, Anne; Canadian Art Database by invitation of the CCCA (Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art) Academy

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Zebrowski, Ewa Monika, 1948- (Vie des arts, numéro 221, vol. 45, hiver 2010-2011, p. 79); artist's site

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Zednik, Jane, 1953-, (Biographical Index of Artists in Canada)

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Zegray, Lucienne Boucher, 1937-, née Montréal, (Magazin'art, v. 13(1), 2000,
------p. 86 and 124(E); Magazin'art Biennial Guide 98-99;
------Magazin'art Biennial Guide 2000-2001; Vallée 93; Bruens 88;
------Marché de la peinture au Québec 1991/1992; Canadian Pastels;
------Early Women Artists)


Lucienne Zegray, L'église à la Malbaie, 2002, pastel, 8 x 10", source de l'image: iegor.net/en/
catalog/101100?sold=&offset=150&max=50, site consulté le 7 août 2021.

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Zeidler, Eberhard H. (Heinrich), 1926-2022, (McMaster University; Biographical Index of Artists in Canada; Royal Canadian Academy of
------Arts Book of Days 1997); en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eberhard_Zeidler_(architect)  (accessed 6 April 2022).

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Zeidler, Frank Eric (ARTBOMB--22 February, 23 March, 21 May, 18 June, 10 July and 9 September 2017)
Zeigler, George (Art Auctions 1976-1978)
Zeigler-Sungur, Barbara, 1949-, (Alberta artists; University of Guelph; Biographical Index of Artists in Canada;
------Shell Canada Collection; Alberta Society of Artists)
Zeissler, William (Willly), 1902-1991, (McKendry)
Zeitouni, Nicolas, 1935-, (canadiens d'origine arabe)

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Publication sur Daniéla Zékina:
Delaunois, Angèle, Daniela Zekina, Galerie Jeannine Blais, Daniela Zekina : femmes intérieures = Daniela Zekina : interior women,
North Hatley, Québec : Galerie Jeannine Blais, [2006?], 68 p. : col. ill., ports. ; 28 cm., ISBN: 2980720550, 9782980720550;
source de l'image: galeriejeannineblais.com/zekina_fr/, site consulté le 16 décembre 2019.

Zékina, Daniéla, 1960-, (L'Artothèque; Illustrateurs et illustratrices du Québec 2000-2001)

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References in parentheses / Références entre parenthèses

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Zekoff, Ognian, 1964-, (Thompson Landry Gallery -- Contemporary Artists 2015)

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Zeldin, Gerald, 1943-2010, (McKendry; Roundstone Council for the Arts 2; Biographical Index of Artists in Canada;
------Toronto in Art; Celebration of Contemporary Canadian Art; Ontario Collection; Art in Ontario)

[Image and description of Gerald Zeldin's canvas are reproduced from the following book:
Parkin, Jeanne, William J.S. Boyle, Visual Arts Ontario, Art in Architecture: Art for the built environment in the Province
of Ontario, [Toronto] : Visual Arts Ontario, 1982, xii, 276 p., at p. 272: ill.; 31 cm. NOTES: Bibliography: p. 276, ISBN: 0920708048]

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[Photo and description of photo of Edward Zelenak reproduced from the following book:
[Aarons, Anita, ed., "Allied Arts Catalogue - Catalogue des arts connexes", Arts for Architecture
(Royal Architectural Institute of Canada), numbers 49-89, volume 1968, 48 pages, at p. 8, vol. 2, Oct. 1968.]

Zelenak, Edward (Ed) John, 1940-, sculpt., (Roundstone Council for the Arts;
------Sculpture Walks; McKendry; Burnett; Murray; Art Gallery of Hamilton;
------Allied Arts Catalogue 2; Biographical Index of Artists in Canada; Contemporary Canadian Artists;
------Ontario Collection; Art in Ontario; The Donovan Collection at St. Michael's College)

ZELENAK, Edward John

Born: 9 November 1940, St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada

Sculptor renowned in the 1960s and 1970s for large minimalist public art and in the
later decades of the 20th century, for his smaller, more introspective interior works,
Ed Zelenak was born in St. Thomas, Ontario. From 1957-1959, he studied at the
Ontario College of Art, and from 1960 to1961, at the Fort Worth Art Centre and the
Barsch Kelly Atelier, Dallas, Texas. On his return to Canada, Zelenak settled in West
Lorne, southwest of London, Ontario and taught for eight years at the University of
Western Ontario in London. Although he enjoyed his removal from large art centres,
he maintained connections with the vibrant London art scene, admiring in particular
the work of local artists Murray Favro and Paterson Ewen, as well as international
artists Cy Twombly and David Smith.

In the mid-1960s, Zelenak made large minimalist works that because of their
enormous size required an out-of-doors location. Stoatallos, 1966-67, a black
plywood structure that evoked a blunted pyramid, stood over two metres high with a
ten by three metre footprint. Its large scale demanded that the viewer move around the
work in order to appreciate its composition and irregular sides. After producing other
angular works, Zelenak then sought to soften the flatness of the planes and
experimented with fibreglass, attractive for its malleability and translucency. The
large reddish brown tubular Traffic, 1968, almost seven metres high with a footprint
of eleven by three metres, attracted wide public attention and controversy when,
following a commission from the National Gallery of Canada, it was installed in 1971
in a downtown Ottawa park. Writing in artscanada, John Noel Chandler observed, "It
is decidedly pneumatic, shaped like a giant inner tube, folded to thrust upward a large
arch…It catches and diffuses light, seems almost to generate its own
phosphorescence, its luciferous amber skin encased the lumen within." Writing later
of these very theatrical sculptures, Zelenak said, "The intent was to invite the viewer
to become one with the piece. Physically moving in, through and around the pieces…"
Reviewing his first solo exhibition in 1969 in Toronto of gallery-size tubular fibre-
glass sculptures, art critic Jared Sable dubbed the show "a knockout", and added that
the works were "minimal and Baroque, clinical and sexual, heavy yet light, and
mysterious yet factual…some of the best art now being shown…a very auspicious
debut…"

In the 1970s, Zelenak continued to make both large public and gallery-size fibreglass
sculptures that by the close of the decade were configured by the cutting, dividing and
reassembling of various large organic shapes, "worms, intestines, telephone cords and
bubbles" as they were labelled by the public and press. He also began to move
towards a more personal art, more metaphoric in meaning and where there was more
evidence of the artist's hand. By the mid-1970s, he started working in metal, liking the
way the shaping, casting, carving, and incising of the metal revealed the process and
history of the object. Building on his long-standing interest in mapping, Zelenak also
integrated the shape of the Cepheus constellation (linked to his astrological sign
Scorpio), into many of the metal works. "In looking at the heavens", said the artist,
"we aspire to the issue of where we are, who we are, and what world we are in." In
works such as Untitled No. 7, 1976-79, a solid steel plate with a lead surface and a tin
finish resembled an ancient tablet and was embellished with a shallow relief
composed of elongated house shapes that resembled the shape of the Cepheus
constellation.

In the 1980s, Zelenak continued to work in metal, creating both two and three-
dimensional works in which he used variations of the Cepheus constellation shape. In
works such as Wall Pieces, 1982-87, Zelenak straddled sculpture and drawing,
applying the tin shapes to paper enhanced with graphite. The artist's interest in myth,
mapping and travel was manifest in works such as Noah's Ark (6 Plane Curve), 1982-
86, in which twelve steel plates were welded together to form the walls of a
bottomless boat. During this period, he also created small multi-piece installations
consisting of cast metal vases and vessels along with geometric open and closed
forms. Central to Vessel/Vessel, 1984-86 was the theme of water; the artist explained,
"the vessel (vase) as a container, the two vessels (boats or arks) as objects which are
intended to float on the water."

In the mid-1990s and into the decade that followed, Zelenak continued to make three-
dimensional objects that made extensive use of imagery involving trees, branches or
divining rods, all of which have a close association with water. In addition to wall and
floor works that embodied this imagery, Zelenak also made works in the shapes of
tables with vessels embedded in their surfaces. For the artist, the table as art object
became a plane - like a canvas - on which he could explore ideas. In Table #1: Still
Life with Divining Rod, 1995-1996, the centre of a square metal table is punctuated by
a polished metal concave vessel whose top rim has been inset with cast metal tree
branches in the shape of a diving rod. "As a motif, literally and metaphorically,"
Zelenak stated, "the diving rod serves as a portal for philosophical meanderings." In
2004, Zelenak produced Concave #1 and Concave #2, large copper and bronze vessels
with cast metal branches fitted into their mouths. In 2005, these were exhibited at the
McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, along with other recent
work.

Selected Public Collections
Charlottetown, PE, Confederation Centre for the Arts
Chicago, IL, USA, Ukrainian Institute of Art
Edmonton, AB, Art Gallery of Alberta
Hamilton, ON, Art Gallery of Hamilton
London, ON, Museums London
London, ON, McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario
Lausanne, Switzerland, Musée Cantonale des beaux-arts
Montreal, QC, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University
Ottawa, ON, Canada Council Bank
Ottawa, ON, Carleton University Art Gallery
Ottawa, ON, Department of External Affairs
Ottawa, ON, National Gallery of Canada
Regina, SK, Mackenzie Art Gallery
Stratford, ON, Gallery Stratford
Toronto, ON, Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, ON, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1969 -1992, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, ON
1973, Milwaukee Arts Centre, Milwaukee, WI, USA
1979, 1980, 1984, 1985, Forest City Gallery, London, ON
1981, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
1983, Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto, ON
1989, Finding a Place, touring: London Regional Art and Historical Museums,
London, ON; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
1991, Brenda Wallace Gallery, Montreal, QC
1993, 1994, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, ON
1996, Seminal Sculpture of the School of London, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York,
NY, USA
1997, Water and Dreams, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, ON
2000, On the Face of It, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, ON
2005, Ed Zelenak: New Work, McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario,
London, ON

Selected Group Exhibitions
1962, Coffey Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
1966, Three Person Exhibition - Zelenak, Redinger, Boyle, University of Western
Ontario, London, ON
1967, Ontario Centennial Exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
1968, Heart of London, National Gallery of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, touring: 10
Sculptors, Rothmans Art Gallery, Stratford, ON; Survey '68, Montreal Museum of
Fine Arts, Montreal, QC
1969, A Plastic Presence, touring: Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA; Milwaukee
Arts Centre, Milwaukee, WI, USA; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco,
CA, USA
1970, Monuments '70, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
1970, Third International Pioneer Galleries Exhibition, touring: Lausanne,
Switzerland; Musée Cantonel, France; Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris,
France
1971, 49th Parallel, touring: Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL, USA; Contemporary
Museum of Art, Chicago, IL, USA
1972, Diversity Canada East, Norman Mackenzie Gallery, Regina, SK
1972, Recent Vanguard Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
1974, Contemporary Ontario Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
1977, Art Fiera, Bologna, Italy
1978, Aspects of Sculpture, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, QC; Ontario College
of Art, Toronto, ON
1984, Matter for Consideration, The Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto, ON
1990, Escape, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC
1993 - 2000, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, ON
2000, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, North York, Toronto, ON

Selected Awards
1963, Clinic Prize, Tarrant County Show, Fort Worth Texas, TX, USA

References
Artist's Documentation File, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives.
Buj, Lorenzo. Ed Zelenak. Chatham, Ontario: Thames Art Gallery, 2005.
Chandler, John Noel. "Redinger and Zelenak", artscanada, April, 1969.
Fleming, Marnie. Ed Zelenak Finding a Place Selected Work 1976-1988, London:
London Regional Art and Historical Museums, 1989.
McMann, Evelyn de R. Biographical Index of Artists in Canada. Toronto: University
of Toronto Press, 2003.
Sable, Jared. "Sensuous, Auspicious Debut", Toronto Telegram, June 7, 1969.

Anne Newlands
Compiled December 2008

[Source: Anne Newlands, "ZELENAK, Edward John", December 2008, 5 p., A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volume 9 (online only),
by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker, National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, document
obtained by François Lareau from the National Gallery of Canada under Access to Information Act Request A2024-007]

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Zelkine, Cilou, 1941-, (Collection numérique d'estampes de la Bibliothèque nationale du Québec;
------Artistes plasticiens par Comeau)
Zell, Marc (Collection d'art de la Ville de Gatineau -- 2019)
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Publication on Ludwig Zeller and Susana Wald:
Wald, Susana, Ludwig Zeller, 1927-, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Susana Wald & Ludwig Zeller : Art Gallery of Hamilton, October 4-November 11, 1979,
[Toronto : Oasis, 1979], [20] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.  NOTES: Cover title.  ISBN: 0888910169; image supplied to abebooks by book reseller: Roe and Moore
(London, United Kingdom).
Image source: abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=21391636422&searchurl=sts%3Dt%26tn%3Dwald%252C%2Bsusana%26sortby%3D17#&gid=1&pid=1, accessed 5 February 2017

Zeller, Ludwig, 1927-2019, (Biographical Index of Artists in Canada); en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Zeller (accessed 6 April 2022).

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Zellermayer, Ruben, 1949-, sculpt. (Biographical Index of Artists in Canada)

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Zema (MU 2015)

[image source: mumtl.org/en/artists/zema/, accessed 20 February 2022.]

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Book by:
Zeman, Ludmila,  The Last Quest of Gilgamesh, Montreal : Tundra Books, [1995],
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 30 cm, ISBN: 0887763286, 9780887763281,
9780887763809, 0887763804; image source: penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/195701/the-last-quest-of-
gilgamesh-by-ludmila-zeman/9780887763809, accessed 18 February 2020.

Zeman, Ludmila, 1947-, illustrator,

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References in parentheses / Références entre parenthèses

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Zen, Tommy, potter (Magazin'art, v. 14(1), 2001, pp.70-72 and 120-121(E); Thompson Landry Gallery -- Contemporary Artists 2015;
------Le Balcon d'Art -- artistes de la galerie)

Multi Art nous offre une recherche
                                      effectuée sur Tommy Zen, voir multiartmedia.com/
                                      (nous remercions monsieur Steve Pearson pour cette information,
                                      3 mars 2020).

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Zenith, Helen (Alberta Society of Artists)
Zentner, Lyne, 1950-, (Vallée 93)

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Zerafa, Ronald, 1951-, (Collection Lavalin du Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal); artist's site

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Zerini-Le Reste, Alice; site de l'artiste
Zéro Zoo, voir Bleau, François-Pierre
Zeweniuk, Garry, 1944-, Parksville, B.C., (Roundstone Council for the Arts 2; Biographical Index of Artists in Canada)
Zgodzinski, Rose, 1953-, (Art in Ontario)
Zhang, Betty (ARTBOMB--16 April 2014; 5 July 2015)
Zhang, Donghong Donna, 1958-, (Magazin'art Biennial Guide 2002-2003)

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Zhang, Liankui (Collection Lot-Québec)
Zhang, Nan, "immigrated to Canada in 2014"; see--voir: koymangalleries.com/artist/nan-zhang/
Zhao, Xiaomeng (ArtBombPHOTO--15 April 2014)
Zheng, Brian W.G., 1956-, (Alberta Society of Artists)

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Zhong-Yang, Huang (Corporate collections)

"Huang Zhong is one of the best-represented artists in the
University of Regina President's Art Collection, over
the past two decades, he has frequently been commissioned
to create the official portraits of the University's Presidents
and Chancellors.  Born in China, Yang moved to Canada in
the mid-1980s, completing a Master of Fine Arts degree at
the University of Regina in 1987.  The Last Supper, which was
selected by the University from Yang's graduate show, evokes
Leonardo's Last Supper in its depiction of a group of Buddhist
monks under a portrait of Chairman Mao.  The painting is now
on display in the Graduate Studies boardroom at the University,
where students sit in front of it while defending their theses and
dissertations--most without even realizing that a former student's
own graduate project is on the wall directly behind them."

Text and image are from the following book:
King, Stephen, 1947-, Timothy Long, 1961-, Jeremy Morgan, The vaults : art from the Mackenzie Art Gallery and the University of Regina Collections /
edited by Timothy Long and Stephen King; photography by Don Hall Art from the Mackenzie Art Gallery and the University of Regina Collections, Regina :
University of Regina Press, 2013, 109 p., at p. 71, col. ill. ; 29 cm NOTES: Includes bibliographical references. The original Norman Mackenzie bequest /
Timothy Long -- The Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina Collection, 1953-1990 / Timothy Long -- The University of Regina President's Collection /
Stephen King -- The Mackenzie Art Gallery Collection, 1990-present / Timothy Long -- ... and keeping them open / Jeremy Morgan.  ISBN: 9780889772892
and 0889772894.

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Zhou, Jack, 1965-; see--voir: koymangalleries.com/artist/jack-zhou/
Zhu, Junshan, 1934-, (Vallée 93)
Zhu, Lan (Collection Lot-Québec; Femmeuses 2001)
Ziegler, Alfred, act. 1960s-, (Folk Artists)
Ziegler, Anne Jaffray, 1897-1981 (Sales Index 1989-90; Early Women Artists; Canadian Women Artists History Initiative--Concordia University)
Zielinski, Ann (Senior member of the Federation of Canadian Artists -- 2012)
Zielke, Elizabeth Ursula, 1936-, (Biographical Index of Artists in Canada)
Zielke, Peter J., 1937-2012, (Roundstone Council for the Arts; Biographical Index of Artists in Canada)
Zielke-Statham, Elizabeth Ursula, 1936-, (Saskatchewan Artists)
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References in parentheses / Références entre parenthèses

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Zigby, Josette, 1932-, (Pluralisme au Québec)
Ziger, Joanne, 1951-, (Roundstone Council for the Arts; Artistes plasticiens par Comeau;
------Biographical Index of Artists in Canada)
Zilberberg, Alice (ARTBOMB--24 October 2013; ARTBOMBPHOTO--18 March and 1 April 2014; ARTBOMB--photo: 12 September 2014;
------9 April 2016)
Zilberman, Mala, 1920-2016, (200 Years of Botanical Art in British Columbia)
Zillig, Edith (Crafts from Canada's Four Atlantic Provinces 1982)

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Zïlon (alias Robert Pilon) , 1954-2023, (Magazin'art Biennial Guide 98-99; Bernier; L'Artothèque)

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Zimbel, George S., 1929-2023,  (Claridge Inc. catalogue; Children in Photography; Stephen Bulger Gallery Toronto)
Zimmer, Chris (Crafts from Canada's Four Atlantic Provinces 1982)
Zimmer, Morand Herman Joseph, 1925-, (Biographical Index of Artists in Canada)
Zimmerling, Bonnie (membre de l'Association des artistes du Pontiac -- 2012)
Zimmerman, Carl, photographer, (Smart; Stephen Bulger Gallery Toronto; Visual Arts Nova Scotia 1994)
Zimmerman, David; artist's site

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Zimmerman, Idessa (Idessa Caroline Eichler), 1913-1992, painter; see--voir obituary

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Zingone, Paul, (Being Scene 2007 Art Exhibition)
Zingone, Robert, born in Toronto (Contemporary Art--Halifax, 2006)
Zini, Dario, photographer (Stephen Bulger Gallery Toronto)
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Zinkan, Judith, born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan  (Treasured Moments: John and Monica Kurtz)

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Zip in Saskatchewan newspapers (History of Canadian Political Cartooning)
Zipp, Collin; Canadian Art Database by invitation of the CCCA (Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art) Academy
Ziraldo, Lorena, born in Italy; see--voir: koymangalleries.com/artist/lorena-ziraldo/
Zits, Johannes (Vie des arts, numéro 223, vol. 45, été 2011, p. 100; Katzman Contemporary art gallery in Toronto); *artist's site
Zivot, Rose, 1931-, born in Calgary (Senior member of the Federation of Canadian Artists -- 2012; Canadian Pastels;
------Alberta Society of Artists); *artist's site
Zolkower, Rick, 1950-, (Children in Photography)
Zollo (dit), see--voir Veilleux, Alain
Zoltak, Marec (Marek), 1951-, (Magazin'art Biennial Guide 98-99;
------Magazin'art Biennial Guide 2000-2001)
Zoltvany, Bela, 1892-1956, sculpt. (Artistes plasticiens par Comeau)
Zon, Sari, 1972-,  (ARTBOMB--14 March, 26 August, 10 September and 9 October 2014; 16 July, 19 September, 2 and 21 October
------and 3 November 2015; 15 February, 7 March, 30 September, 27 October, 8 November and 5 December 2016; 28 March,
------4 April, 10 May and 6 and 12 June 2017; 15 January 2018); *artist's site 1 ---artist's site 2
Zone (le groupe), photographe (Montréal au XX^e s.--photographes)

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Zontal, Jorge, 1944-1994 (Biographical Index of Artists in Canada; Biographical Index of Artists in Canada) see/voir General Idea;
------see also/voir aussi Saia, Jorge)

ZONTAL, Jorge

Born: 28 January 1944, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Died: 3 February 1994, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Based in Toronto, the artist trio of Jorge Zontal (aka Jorge Saia), AA Bronson (aka
Michael Tims, born 1946, Vancouver), and Felix Partz (aka Ronald Gabe, born 1945,
Winnipeg, died 1994, Toronto), worked collaboratively as an artists' collective under
the name General Idea from 1969 to 1994. General Idea created works in a wide range
of media, including mail-art, performance, video, photography, installation,
printmaking, painting, sculpture and printed media such as artist's books, mass
produced objects, and magazines. Their parodies and satirical critiques of the
artworld, mainstream society and mass media were informed by conceptualism, Dada,
surrealism, counter-culture ideology, and gay identity/rights. General Idea's AIDS
Project, 1987-1991, became one of their best known works.

Slobodan Saia-Levy (Jorge Saia) was born in 1944, in Parma, Italy. His parents were
Jewish Yugoslavian refugees who sought a safe haven in Italy during WW II. Saia's
father was captured by the Nazis in Italy and sent to a concentration camp at
Auschwitz; his mother escaped with her infant son to Switzerland. After WW II, the
family was reunited and returned briefly to Yugoslavia. They immigrated to Israel for
a few years, and then immigrated again to Caracas, Venezuela, where they settled, and
where Saia acquired his Spanish name, Jorge (which in Canada became George).

In the mid 1960s, Saia came to Canada to study architecture at Dalhousie University
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he graduated in 1968. While a student, Saia was more
engaged by his involvement with experimental film at the Film Society in Halifax,
experimental filmmaking and acting than his formal studies. His interest in
performance art led him to New York on a regular basis, where he also took acting
lessons. By 1967, he had discovered the Vancouver art scene and became involved
with Intermedia, the first artist-run centre in Canada. In 1968 Saia studied videotape
recording at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, and enrolled in choreography
workshops at the Intermedia Society. His many writings and scripts for films and
theatre reflect these dual interests. While living in Vancouver, Saia met Michael Tims
when he visited the west coast.

Saia was known to draw and doodle incessantly. His early drawings,
including Collage Series, 1967, indicate his interest in combining found photographic
images with word fragments from newspapers and visual puns referencing male
sexuality. Another of Saia's individual works, Shoe Journal, 1971, a collection of
drawing, doodles and studies of women's shoes, was inspired by an illustration on
how to draw legs.

In mid-1969, Saia went to Toronto intending to produce a film for Theatre Passe
Muraille at Rochdale College. However he re-encountered Tims, and met Ron Gabe -
both of whom were involved in Toronto's 'underground' theatre scene - and remained
in Toronto when they formed an artist's collective. By 1970 the collective had begun
to work under the name General Idea. Each artist assumed an alternative artistic
identity and a pseudonym: Jorge Saia became Jorge Zontal, a pun on the
pronunciation of Jorge (Hor-hay), Tims became AA Bronson, and Gabe became Felix
Partz.

AA Bronson traced the concepts and ideas that fed General Idea's formative years in
the late-1960s in his essay Myth as Parasite, Image as Virus, 1997. He observed, "We
considered ourselves a cultural parasite and our method was viral. …We turned to the
outsider queer methods of William Burroughs…whose invented… espionage
archetypes provided the ironic mythmaking model we required. … We realised that
the structure and surplus of our society was such that we could live, like parasites, on
the body of our host, off the excess…We could infect the mainstream with our
mutations, and stretch the social fabric."

Zontal's obsession with television, including talk shows, game shows and other TV
programs fed the group's involvement with video that began in 1970. Their videos
ranged from performance documents to narratives and mock TV shows,
including Blocking, 1974, in which they declared, "General Idea is basically this: a
framing device within which we inhabit the role of the artist as we see the living
legend." Test Tube, 1979, where they stated, "We don't want to destroy television as
we know it. We want to add to it, stretch it until it starts to lose shape..." and Shut the
Fuck Up, 1985, which discredited the media's position that only gossip and spectacle
make artists interesting to the public, and where Zontal quipped, "When there is
nothing to say, shut the fuck up."

General Idea's first major performance work, The 1971 Miss General Idea Pageant
Entries, a satirical event, was staged at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. It took
the form of a spectacular beauty pageant with limousines, TV cameras, master of
ceremonies, glamorous audience and a speech by the former Miss General Idea, with
the aim of critiquing and appropriating notions of glamour, artworld celebrity,
including the myth of the artist as a 'star' as created by the media for public
entertainment.

General Idea's publication FILE megazine, another subversive foray into the world of
mass media, began in 1972 and continued till 1989. They published a total of 26
issues of FILE on thematic topics ranging from artist's projects slanted towards
popular culture, such as 'Glamour' and 'Punk', to performance art themes including
Vancouver's 'Mr. Peanut', 'Manipulating the Self', and '1984'. FILE was a parody
of LIFE, a popular American photo-journalism magazine from the 1950s and 1960s.
Bronson cited FILE as an example of "a parasite within the world of magazine
distribution, positioned to infect newsstands, schools and libraries in urban centres."
General Idea's 'megazine' was intended to be "a cross-Canada art organ, by artists, for
artists", functioning as an extension of the mail-art network where artists could
operate outside of art institutions and galleries.

In 1974, General Idea founded Art Metropole in Toronto, an alternative artist's
organization dedicated to publishing and distributing artist's projects, including
printed materials, performance documents, books, audio cassettes, posters, and mail/
correspondence art by artists who worked in a conceptual manner.

In 1977, General Idea's The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion extended their fictitious
pageant concept to include a futuristic architectural ruin, presented in their solo
touring exhibition Reconstructing Futures, which opened at Carmen Lamanna Gallery
in Toronto, and toured to London, England, and Paris. Two further exhibitions toured
in Europe and Canada, The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, from 1984 to 1985
and The Armoury of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, from 1986 to1987.

Beginning in the 1980s General Idea produced several photographic self-portraits
which satirically explored their ever-changing group identity and played on their
sexuality. These works ranged from Baby Makes Three, 1984, depicting three babies
with the faces of Zontal, Bronson, and Partz tucked up in a communal bed, P is for
Poodle, 1983, showing the trio wearing make-up and hats to simulate their appearance
as poodles, Mondo Cane Kama Sutra, 1983, a graphic design in neon colour depicting
three copulating poodles, and Playing Doctor, 1992, where dressed as three doctors in
white lab-coats they hold stethoscopes to one another's hearts.

In 1986, General Idea moved to New York to participate more fully in the
international art scene. By the mid 1980s the AIDS-HIV epidemic was inflicting
severe illness and early death upon many, including those in the art world, as medical
treatment was still underdeveloped. By 1987, General Idea's artistic focus shifted to
the AIDS crisis; they created the AIDS logo by appropriating the design of Robert
Indiana's 1966 painting LOVE, and began a street level publicity campaign called
ImageVirus. Their intent was to creating public dialogue about the disease through
public art that included posters on street hoardings and public transit systems in
Toronto, San Francisco, Berlin, New York and Amsterdam. Their AIDS design also
appeared as an outdoor metal sculpture, postage stamp, paintings, and an animation
for the Spectacolor Board in Times Square, New York. In 1989 Partz was diagnosed
with HIV, and in 1990 Zontal was also diagnosed with the disease.

From 1992 to 1993, General Idea's Fin de siècle, an international retrospective
exhibition of their work since 1984, toured in Europe and the United States. It
included two sculptural installations, Fin de Siècle, 1990, comprised of three fake seal
pups posing on Styrofoam ice floes that portrayed the artists as innocent victims,
and One Year of AZT / One Day of AZT, 1991, replicating the white and blue striped
AZT drug capsules on a giant scale from vacuum-formed fiberglass plastic. The AZT
medication was an HIV drug treatment taken by Zontal and Partz.

In the early 1990s General Idea returned to live in Toronto, compelled by Zontal's and
Partz' health care needs and high medical costs. Zontal died of AIDS-related illness in
January 1994, in Toronto and Partz died in July 1994. Zontal is survived by AA
Bronson who continues to work in New York as an individual artist.

In 1997, the Art Gallery of Ontario presented a major retrospective about General
Idea's early years, The Search for the Spirit: General Idea 1968-1975. In 1999, Art
Metropole's international collection of alternative artists' projects and publications,
including the General Idea Collection, was donated by Jay Smith, Toronto, to the
National Gallery of Canada. In 2008, Annette Mangaard's feature length documentary
film General Idea: Art, Aids and the Fin de siècle was released at the Toronto
International Film Festival.

Selected Public Collections
Amsterdam, Netherlands, Stedelijk Museum
Baltimore, MD, USA, Baltimore Museum of Art
Burnaby, BC, Simon Fraser University Gallery
Chicago, IL, USA, Museum of Contemporary Art
Eindhoven, Netherlands, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum
Hamilton, ON, Hamilton Art Gallery
Kingston, ON, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University
Montreal, QC, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University
Montreal, QC, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Montreal, QC, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
New York, NY, USA, Museum of Modern Art
Ottawa, ON, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
Ottawa, ON, National Gallery of Canada
Paris, France, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris
Philadelphia, PA, USA, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Regina, SK, MacKenzie Art Gallery
Ridgefield, CT, USA, Aldridge Museum of Contemporary Art
San Francisco, CA, USA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Saskatoon, SK, Mendel Art Gallery
Toronto, ON, Art Gallery of Ontario
Vancouver, BC, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Vancouver, BC, Vancouver Art Gallery
Winnipeg, MB, Winnipeg Art Gallery
Zurich, Switzerland, Kunsthaus Zurich
Selected Solo Exhibitions by Jorge Zontal
1968, performance, Intermedia, Vancouver, BC
1970, Good Enough to Eat, Rochdale College Art Gallery, Toronto, ON
1982, General Idea's Jorge Zontal, A Space, Toronto, ON; curated by AA Bronson
and Felix Partz

Selected Solo Exhibitions by General Idea
1971, The 1971 Miss General Idea Pageant, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON; A
Space, Toronto, ON
1972, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, Carmen Lamanna Gallery,
Toronto, ON
1974, General Idea at the Western Front, Western Front, Vancouver, BC
1977, The 1971 Miss General Idea Pageant Entries, Parachute Centre for Cultural
Affairs, Calgary, AB
1977, The Frame of Reference, Western Front, Vancouver, BC
1977-1978, Reconstructing Futures, touring, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, ON;
Canada House Gallery, London, England; Centre culturel canadien, Paris, France
1979, Colour Bar Lounge, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1979, General Idea, Modern Art Gallery, Vienna, Austria
1979, Ménage à Trois, Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1982, Colour Bar Lounge, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, NS
1984, General Idea, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
1984, Caniche à la Mode, Language Plus, Alma, QC
1984, Mondo Cane Kama Sutra, Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1984, General Idea's 1984, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1984-1985, The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel,
Switzerland; touring, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; Art
Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, ON; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal,
QC
1986, P is for Poodle, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
1986, Cornucopia, Forest City Gallery, London, ON
1986, General Idea, Galerie Montenay-Delsol, Paris, France
1986-1987, The Armoury of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, touring, Albright-
Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA; 49th Parallel Gallery, New York, NY, USA;
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA;
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, USA; Stegaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1988, The Public and Private Domains of the Miss General Idea Pavillion, Artspace,
San Francisco, CA, USA
1988, AIDS, YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, ON
1988, AIDS, New Museum of Contemoprary Art, New York, NY, USA
1991, Black AIDS Paintings, Grey Art Gallery and Study Centre, New York
University, NY, USA
1992-1993, General Idea's Fin de siècle, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart,
Germany; Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain; Kunstverein, Hamburg,
Germany; The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, ON; Wexner Center
for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA; San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
1993, The Armoury of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion and Related Works, Art
Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
1994, General Idea: Drawings 1989-1994, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
1994, One Day of AZT/ One Year of AZT, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
1994, General Idea: The Showcard Series from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pageant
Pavillion, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON
1994, General Idea: Showcase, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1996, General Idea: One Day of AZT / One Year of AZT / Projects 56, Museum of
Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1997, The Search for the Spirit: General Idea 1968-1975, Art Gallery of Ontario,
Toronto, ON
1997, General Idea, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
2002, A Day Without Art, World AIDS Day, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
2003-2005, General Idea Editions 1967-1995, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton,
ON; Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, QC; Mount
Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON;
Museum London, London, ON; Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, MB; Dunlop Art Gallery,
Regina, SK; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, AB; Charles H. Scott Gallery,
Vancouver, BC; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC; Luckman Fine Arts
Complex, Los Angeles, CA, USA: Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA; Andy
Warhol Museum, Pittsubrgh, PA, USA
2006, General Idea/ Selected Retrospective, Project Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Selected Group Exhibitions
1977, X Biennale des Jeunes, Musée d'art moderne, Paris, France
1978, Another Dimension, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
1980, Venice Biennale, Canadian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
1980, Pluralities, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
1982, O Kanada, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
1982, Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
1982, Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
1987, Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany
1998, XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Selected Awards (General Idea)
1974, Best Glossy Zine, Hollywood, CA, USA
1978, Arton's Industrial Award, Arton's, Calgary, AB
1981, Portopia Award, International Festival of Video Art, Kobe, Japan
1988, Gershon Iskowitz Prize, Gershon Iskowitz Foundation, Toronto, ON
1993, Lifetime Achievement Award, Toronto Arts Awards, Toronto, ON
1993, National Arts Award, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB
1994, Jean A. Chalmers Award for Visual Arts, Toronto, ON
2001, Bell Canada Award for Video Art, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, ON

References
AA Bronson, artist's website, includes General Idea's CV, http://www.aabronson.com
(accessed 14 January 2009).
Artist's Documentation File, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives.
Bayer, Fern and Peggy Gale. Art Metropole's Publications and Events History with
Related Ephemera, January 1971 - April 2006, Digital Occasional Paper No. 1,
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, 2006.
(http://www.gallery.ca/files/artmetchron_e.pdf, accessed January 12, 2009)
Contemporary Canadian Artists, Toronto: Gale Canada, 1997.
Fischer, Barbara. General Idea: Editions 1967-1995, Mississauga: Blackwood
Gallery, 2003.
General Idea: Fin de siècle, Stuttgart: Würtemburgischer Kunstverein, 1992.
General Idea 1968 - 1984, Eindhoven: Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, 1984.
The Search for the Spirit; General Idea 1968-1975, Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario,
1997.
Zontal, Jorge. "Jorge Zontal, 50, Partner in Canadian Art Group", New York Times,
Obituaries, February 8, 1994.

Judith Parker
Compiled January 2009

[Source:Judith Parker, "ZONTAL, Jorge", January 2009, 8 p., A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volume 9 (online only),
by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker, National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, document
obtained by François Lareau from the National Gallery of Canada under Access to Information Act Request A2024-007]

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Zoo, Zéro, voir Bleu, François-Pierre

References in parentheses / Références entre parenthèses

Zoppo, Del, weaver (Art and Craft of Nova Scotia; Crafts from Canada's Four Atlantic Provinces 1982)
Zorzi, Bianca (Sheridan Institute's Illustration Program 2007 Graduating Class)
Zouche, George-C. de, fl 1868-96, (Biographical Index of Artists in Canada)
Zoudis, Panagiotis (Peter), 1952-, (Biographical Index of Artists in Canada)
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Zsako, Balint, 1979-, né à Budapest (Foire d'art contemporain d'oeuvres sur papier 2014)

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Zsolt, Tom, 1958-, photographer

Book by Tom Zsolt:
Zsolt, Tom, 1958-, Country matters / Tom Zsolt; with an introduction by Roger Boulton, Toronto : Kearns Vander Meersch
& Boulton, c1999, xiv, 97 p. : ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.  ISBN: 0968461107.

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In his own words, Ted lived life to the fullest and lived it his way! A skydiver,
motorcycle rider, painter, photographer, teacher, guitar player, ultra-lite pilot,
inventor, veteran (infantry, paratrooper, sniper, war artist), father, husband,
brother and friend.  In addition to his magnificent landscape paintings, Ted
was Canada’s last official war artist and was named a Canadian Heritage Painter
with many of his remarkable works displayed within the Canadian War Museum
in Ottawa. His work was commissioned and displayed in many Countries around
the world, most notably South Korea where his painting “Kwong San 355” is the
only artwork outside that of Korean Nationals to be on permanent exhibit within
the hallowed halls of the Korean War Memorial, a Museum dedicated to preserving
and honoring the sacrifices of war.  Ted was the only surviving Canadian Veteran
to hold four (4) medals from battles including Korea and the Gulf War. Additionally,
Ted received an Ambassador for Peace medal by the Republic of Korea, His work
was featured in the book, “Deadlock in Korea”, written by the highly acclaimed author,
journalist and broadcaster, Ted Barris. Ted’s work is also featured in the book “Triumph
at Kapyong” written by the late CBC Correspondent and author, Dan Bjarnason.  Ted
was a teacher of Art and Photography at St Lawrence College in Kingston and Brockville,
Ontario.
[Source of excerpt text: Obituary of Ted Zuber, available at stkingston.simplertimes.com/book
-of-memories/3641337/zuber-edward-ted/service-details.php, accessed 10 November 2022.]

Zuber, Edward (Ted), 1932 and died on 30 October 2018 (McKendry)

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Zubi, Sami, 1956-, (canadiens d'origine arabe)
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Zuck, Tim, 1947-2022, (Newlands; McKendry; Reid; Burnett; Balkind;
------Swain; Canadian Drawings; Abstract Painting; Art Gallery of Hamilton;
------Corporate collections)


Book on the artist Tim Zuck:

Cook, Ramsay, 1931-, Tim Zuck : paintings and drawings / edited by Ramsay,  Cook ; essays by Ramsay Cook ... et al.,
Canmore, Alta. : Altitude Pub. Canada, c1997, 178 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.  Includes bibliographical references: p. 170.  ISBN:  1551539179.

ZUCK, Tim

Born: 18 November 1947, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA

Tim Zuck's realist paintings first came to prominence in the mid 1970s when he lived
in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A trademark of his meticulously rendered images is the
tension between abstraction and representation, and the atmosphere of stillness and
silence. Zuck distils subject matter from his local and personal surroundings,
including maritime scenes and objects, mountain landscapes, nudes, and still-life
compositions of fruit or geometric shapes.

Timothy Zuck was born in 1947, in Erie, Pennsylvania. His grandfather was a still-life
painter. In his youth, Zuck attended Quaker meetings with his parents, which he
described as meditative gatherings where people "tell little stories about something
they feel strongly about, without a hook, or ending, or meaning." From 1966 to 1969,
he attended Wilmington College, Ohio, a Quaker university where he majored in
philosophy and psychology, and took courses in art history and sculpture. For one
academic year, 1967-1968, Zuck joined his parents on a year-long mission in India,
where he studied at Madras Christian College, and travelled the continent on his own.

In 1969 he came to Canada and studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
(NSCAD); he graduated in 1971 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. While at NSCAD,
Zuck created process oriented and conceptual projects, including performance art,
film, video and photographic works. Important works from this period include a
film, Walk on a Frozen Lake, 1970, and series of performance art pieces. While in
Halifax, Zuck married Robyn Randell a librarian from Newfoundland. He went on to
study in California, earning his Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the
Arts, Valencia, in 1972.

After completing graduate studies, Zuck returned to NSCAD in late 1972, to accept a
position as Assistant Professor, remaining until 1979. Zuck continued to work on
conceptual projects while teaching at NSCAD, which was a bastion of conceptual art.
In 1975, dissatisfied with conceptualism's limitations, he began to make small
paintings, a radical move within this context.

Zuck's earliest painted images derive from his personal environment and home in the
village of Purcell's Cove, near Halifax. They display a child-like simplicity in their
treatment and subject matter - a house, fishing boats, aerial views of the land and sea -
which is echoed in the monochrome colours and flat spaces. The works are small, 76
centimetres square or 35 centimetres square, with titles that record their date of
creation, June, 1976, and September, 1976. In 1979, Zuck resigned from NSCAD to
devote himself full-time to painting. His work continued to include still images of
maritime objects such as a buoy, a moored boat, or a bird - but were now imbued with
a soft atmospheric light, depth and subtle shifts in tone. Zuck became associated with
the New Image painters that included New York artist Eric Fischl, who also taught at
NSCAD during the early 1970s.

From 1982 to 1984 Zuck lived in Kingston, Ontario. From 1984 to 1986 he lived in
downtown Toronto, where his daughter, Anna, was born in 1985. Zuck then moved to
the rural town of Midland, Ontario, and a couple of years later moved to a ranch house
nearby. During this period he taught part-time at Georgian College in Barrie, Ontario.
In 1985, Zuck won a poster competition for the XV Olympic Winter Games (1988) in
Calgary, Alberta.

Zuck's Beacon series of the early 1990s reprised boating imagery seen in earlier work.
His painting Beacon #212, 1993, contrasts the sparse, horizontal Georgian Bay
landscape of flat rock, lake and distant island balanced on the horizon line, with a
vertical navigation marker, and its shadow, moored onto the rock in the harsh light of
a hot summer day. Zuck's has interpreted this image, "It is almost like a timeless icon
of stability, a straight thing in the midst of all this potential chaos," while curator
Jeffrey Spalding observes, "Zuck purveys a world illuminated by cool, rational,
constant, calm, eternal, northern light " and cites Zuck's painting Beacon as a
depiction of an object "transmuted by divine light''.

Zuck has often returned to images of transportation including boats and the iconic
image of a northern float plane in his painting Yukon, 1994. He remarked on its
significance, "it was a powerful image in that landscape… it's a transitional image, an
image that takes you from one world to the other in some ways."

In 1997-1998, a major two-part exhibition featuring Zuck's art was organized
collaboratively by the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, which presented a retrospective
of drawings Tim Zuck: Still Life in Landscape, and the McMichael Canadian Art
Collection in Kleinburg, simultaneously presented an overview of his paintings Tim
Zuck: A Decade of Painting.

In 2002, a major touring retrospective exhibition Tim Zuck, Learning to Talk: 20
Years, was circulated by Museum London, London, Ontario. In 2002, Zuck moved to
Calgary to teach at the Alberta College of Art and Design, where he was appointed to
the position of Chair, first year Foundation Studies.

Zuck's series of charcoal drawings of single, simple objects bathed in a mysterious,
shadowy darkness, including an airplane wing, an envelope and a Thermos flask,
commenced in the late 1990s. In 2005, he produced two black and white photogravure
etchings based on this series; Envelope, depicting a single white envelope with the
back flap slightly raised created a dark v-shaped shadow. Zuck has commented on his
imagery, "I really try to slow down time by trying to take simple things and actually
tear them down, peel away at it. I basically try to reduce the object to its essence..."

Selected Public Commissions
Barrie, ON, Georgian College
Calgary, AB, Glenbow Museum
Guelph, ON, MacDonald Stewart Art Gallery, University of Guelph
Halifax, NS, Nova Scotia Art Bank
Hamilton, ON, Art Gallery of Hamilton
Kleinburg, ON, McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Lethbridge, AB, University Lethbridge Art Gallery
London, ON, Museum London
Ottawa, ON, Canada Council Art Bank
Ottawa, ON, Carleton University Art Gallery
Ottawa, ON, National Gallery of Canada
Owen Sound, ON, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery
Sudbury, ON, Laurentian University Museum and Art Centre
Toronto, ON, Art Gallery of Ontario
Vancouver, BC, Vancouver Art Gallery
Winnipeg, MB, Winnipeg Art Gallery

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1976, Recent Works, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
1976-1977, Tim Zuck, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS; touring, Owens Art
Gallery, Sackville, NS, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS
1979-1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2002, Tim Zuck, Sable-
Castelli Gallery, Toronto, ON
1980-1981, Tim Zuck: Paintings, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB, touring, Art
Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, MB, Mount Saint
Vincent University, Halifax, NS
1984, Tim Zuck: Paintings, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University,
Kingston, ON
1989, Tim Zuck: Architectonics, Concordia Art Gallery, Concordia University,
Montreal, QC
1993, Tim Zuck - Paintings, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON
1994, 1997, Recent Works, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, AB
1995, Tim Zuck, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, ON
1997-1998, Tim Zuck: Still Life in Landscape, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON,
touring, Canadian Embassy Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; University of Waterloo Art
Gallery, Waterloo, ON; The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, AB; Winnipeg Art
Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
1997-1998, Tim Zuck: A Decade of Painting, McMichael Canadian Art Collection,
Kleinburg, ON; Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, AB; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg,
MB
1997, Tim Zuck, Recent Work, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, AB2002-03, Tim Zuck,
Learning to Talk: 20 Years, Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida, USA, Leonard
and Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Art Gallery of Nova
Scotia, Halifax, NS; (circulated by) Museum London, London, ON
2006, Tim Zuck, New Drawings and Paintings, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, ON

Selected Group Exhibitions
1976-1977, Atlantic Coast: An Illustrated Journal, National Gallery of Canada,
Ottawa, ON
1978, Coasts: the Sea and Canadian Art, Gallery of Stratford, Stratford, ON
1979, Visual Record, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS
1980, Aspects of Canadian Painting in the Seventies, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
1981-1983, Correspondences, Walter Philips Gallery, Banff, AB; travelling
1987, Water Works, London Regional Art Gallery, London, ON
1988, Eighty/Twenty: 100 Years of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Art
Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS
1993, Reflecting Paradise, Expo '93, Taejon, Korea; 1994, touring, University of
Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB, Edmonton Public Library, Edmonton, AB,
Commonwealth Games, Victoria, BC
1994, Hidden Values, Atlantic Corporations Collect, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia,
Halifax, NS
1994, Contemporary Canadian Works, Art Gallery of North York, North York, ON
1994, Prosperity Returns: The Oral Tradition in Painting, Art Gallery of Hamilton,
Hamilton, ON
1994, Korean-Canadian Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Hee Ro Art
Gallery, Pusan, Korea
1994-1995, Canadian-Korean Exchange Exhibition, Back Sang Gallery, Seoul Korea,
Korea; travelling to Art Gallery of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON; Justina M. Barnicke
Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
1994-1995, The Kluane Expedition, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg,
ON; travelling, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YT
1995, Jim Reid, Richard Storms, Tim Zuck, "Artists with their Work", organized by
the Art Gallery of Ontario, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, ON
1995, Mysteries of the Flesh, adoration-narcissism-revulsion-sensuality-sexuality,
Dome Tower, Calgary, AB
1996, The Boat Show, Art Gallery of North York, North York, ON
2005,The McIntyre Ranch Project II, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB,
travelling, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, AB

References
Art Gallery of Ontario, E. P. Taylor Research Library and Archives, Tim Zuck Fonds
CA OTAG SC075, website,
www.ago.net/www/resources/research_lib/collections/special/pdfs/SC075.pdf
(accessed June 26, 2008).
Artist Documentation File, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives.
Burnett, David and Marilyn Schiff. Contemporary Canadian Art, Edmonton: Hurtig
Publishers Ltd., 1983.
Cook, Ramsay ed. Tim Zuck: Paintings and Drawings. Canmore: Altitude Publishing
Canada Ltd., 1997.
Tim Zuck: Learning to Talk. Halifax: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia - London: Museum
London, 2002.

Judith Parker
Compiled June 2008

[Source:Judith Parker, "ZUCK, Tim", June 2008, 6 p., A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volume 9 (online only),
by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker, National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, document
obtained by François Lareau from the National Gallery of Canada under Access to Information Act Request A2024-007]
 

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Zuniga, Francisco, 1912-1998 (Corporate collections)
Zunti, Sister M. Saleria, 1916-, (Roundstone Council for the Arts; Biographical Index of Artists in Canada)
Zurakowska, Malgorzata, 1988-, (L'art et le papier 2);
Zurek (Robert 83)
Zuro, William (Art Auctions 1976-1978)
Zurosky, Louise, 1942-, (Roundstone Council for the Arts; Toronto Dominion Bank Collection; Biographical Index
------of Artists in Canada; Ontario Collection)
Zver, Donn, craftperson in ceramics (Cutting Edge in Crafts)
Zwarts, Alice, (Carleton; 70 artistes / 70 estampes --2018)

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Zwicker, LeRoy J. (LeRoy Judson), 1906-1987,  (Nova Scotia; Dalhousie Art Gallery; Biographical Index of Artists
------in Canada; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Permanent Collection: Selected Works; Artists' Halifax Portraits through 250 years)

ZWICKER, LeRoy Judson

Born: 21 July 1906, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died: 1 August 1987, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

LeRoy Zwicker was a prominent artist in Halifax from the mid-1920s to the 1960s,
and created paintings in oil and watercolour, and etchings. His subject matter included
portraits, still-life, studies of Nova Scotian fishing villages, views of Halifax, Mexican
towns with their inhabitants, and later his cubist-influenced compositions of buildings
and landscapes.

LeRoy Judson Zwicker was born in Halifax in 1906. His father Judson Zwicker, a
British immigrant, operated a modest art print (reproductions of European art) and
framing business that he had established in 1886.

In the mid 1920s Zwicker studied at the Victoria School of Art and Design, Halifax,
(which became the Nova Scotia College of Art in 1925), with Elizabeth Nutt, Stanley
Royle and H.M. Rosenberg. He then continued his training at the Art Students League
in New York with Ashcan School realist George Luks, and worked in the etching
department of a local gallery. An early oil portrait made while he lived in New
York, Brudder Keeler, 1925, depicts a bespectacled African-American man in three-
quarter profile, seated beside the large organic leaf shapes of a potted cactus. In 1924,
the inclusion of one of Zwicker's paintings in the British Empire Exhibition in
England, allowed his work to be seen in an international context, while the acceptance
of his painting Oriental, 1930, for exhibition with the Royal Canadian Academy of
Arts ensured national exposure.

Zwicker was obliged to return to Halifax from New York when the gallery that
employed him closed due to the economic Depression of the 1930s. A letter from
Zwicker to Eric Brown, Director of the National Gallery of Canada, confirms his
residence in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1932.

In 1936, Zwicker's father relocated his Halifax art print and framing business, and
Zwicker seized the opportunity to establish a well organized gallery within the shop.
Beginning in the early 1930s, Zwicker also worked for Moir's Chocolates as a sales
man; he became a manager of three retail outlets by the time he left in 1959. Zwicker
continued his art training, taking evening classes at the Nova Scotia College of Art. In
1932 he met his future wife, artist Marguerite Porter, at a summer painting school run
by Stanley Royle. Zwicker and Porter eventually married on September 4th, 1937.

In 1942, when his father died, Zwicker inherited Zwicker's Gallery and with his wife
as gallery manager, greatly expanded its programs and impact by promoting modern
visual art within the Maritimes and across Canada, and actively supporting young and
established Canadian artists. It also became a gathering place for artists and artistic
debate. In 1942, Zwicker painted a posthumous portrait of Harry Piers, previously
curator of the Provincial Museum, which was donated to the Nova Scotia Museum of
Fine Art, in Halifax.

In 1940, Zwicker became the business manager of Maritime Art, Canada's first art
magazine, published by the Maritime Art Association until 1943. In 1944, the
magazine moved to Ottawa with its editor Professor Walter Abell (formerly of Acadia
University, NS), and became the national publication Canadian Art. In 1945, Zwicker
published an article, "Art in Nova Scotia" in Canadian Art, which provided a brief
overview of the development of visual art in the province, a summary of current
university and college art training programs, visual art associations, museum
exhibition programs and major artists. In the article Zwicker also bemoaned the "lack
of a real break with …[the] conservative past" and English academic painting.

In 1945, Zwicker presented a solo exhibition of twenty-eight oil paintings at the
Granville Gallery, in Halifax; most were Nova Scotian landscapes. The exhibition
brochure noted that Zwicker's paintings employed modernist compositional principals,
including the use of colour to model space, and stressed "spatial organization,…
colour, rhythm and the emphasizing of essentials, in a manner associated with the
'Canadian School' of painting."

Following the end of WW II, Zwicker spent a summer studying with Jack Levine at
the Skowhegan School of Painting, Madison, Maine, USA, (which opened in 1946).
He also undertook a period of training in Saint-Adèle, Quebec, with Canadian artist
Alfred Pellan, a renowned surrealist painter who used aspects of cubism in his work.
Zwicker's expressionist watercolour painting, Indian Harbour, Nova Scotia, a lively,
angular, representational work depicting fishermen's huts was included in an
exhibition at the Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, Ontario, in 1947. In 1948 he
travelled to Mexico, and produced a painting of the colonial architecture and
inhabitants of Taxaco, and other subjects.

In 1958, Zwicker's artistic development was elaborated in a pamphlet that
accompanied his solo exhibition at Dalhousie University, Halifax. It describes
Zwicker's early works including Old Houses, and his shift to the "the design - space -
colour relationships of the recent Waterfront, [c.1956]", and noted the influences of
cubism and abstraction in Church by the Sea, 1951, a semi-abstract composition in
which the angular shapes of the steep roof and spire are echoed in dynamic diagonal
lines and spaces that cut across the flat picture plane. Two of Zwicker's
paintings, Atomic Force, 1953, a dramatic composition of line and circular shapes
denoting industrial strength, circular movement and energy, and Toledo, Spain, 1956,
an angular composition depicting Spanish buildings bathed in a golden-hued light,
were noted for their "double image….that elusive quality sought after in modern
painting". Zwicker's painting Dutchman's Cove, Nova Scotia, c.1958, a semi-abstract
composition in oil and tempera, interwove flattened forms derived from the landscape,
buildings, cove and the sinuous motif of two loon's heads.

In 1960, Zwicker and his wife Marguerite travelled around the world, touring in Asia
for the first time, he began to collect Japanese prints. In the mid 1960s, Zwicker
painted several abstract works that acknowledge the influence of Japanese calligraphy
including Abstraction #1, 1965, a composition in which dark fluid lines and
brushstrokes are seen moving over organic, circular patches of colour in a flat space.

Around 1962, Zwicker's health and ability to paint began to be compromised due to
the onset of Parkinson's disease, and he ceased to paint around 1974. Zwicker sold
Zwicker's Gallery in 1968, though it continued to operate under its original name. In
1969, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia
College of Art and Design.

In 1975, Zwicker was honoured with a retrospective exhibition that doubled as the
inaugural exhibition of the Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts in its new location (the
name changed to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, later in 1975). The exhibition
presented eighty-seven paintings covering a fifty year span from 1925 to 1975.

Throughout his life Zwicker was prominent member of the Halifax art community,
engaged through his activity as an artist, as the owner of Nova Scotia's first and
largest commercial gallery from 1942-1968, and as a representative in provincial art
associations and as a member of the board of trustees, including Member of the Board
of Governors at the Nova Scotia College of Art, Halifax, founder of the Professional
Art Dealer's Association of Canada, and during the mid-1980s Chairman of the
Acquisition Committee at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Zwicker died in Halifax in
1987.

In a review of a 1989 retrospective exhibition held at Zwicker's Gallery, columnist
Elissa Barnard praised Zwicker's compositions and use of colour, "As a painter he
caught the excitement of colour, light and shape in Nova Scotia's fishing villages. …
Colours dart out - a red in a schooner, an orange wall on a shack, purple and yellow
for rocks. Zwicker, who used a lot of warm orange with cool blues, has a strong eye
for line and angles and zigzags."

Selected Public Collections
Halifax, NS, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Halifax, NS, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Government of Nova Scotia
Halifax, NS, Nova Scotia Art Bank
Halifax, NS, Saint Mary's University Art Gallery
Ottawa, ON, National Gallery of Canada
Sydney, NS, Cape Breton University Art Gallery

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1942, Exhibition of Watercolours by Ruth Wainright and Marguerite Zwicker, Lord
Nelson Hotel, Halifax, NS
1945, Paintings by LeRoy Zwicker, Granville Gallery, Halifax, NS
1958, Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolours by Marguerite Zwicker March 20 - April
4, 1958, and LeRoy Zwicker April 4- April 18, 1958, Dalhousie University, Halifax,
NS
1967, Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by LeRoy Zwicker, Saint Mary's
University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS
1970, LeRoy Zwicker: Retrospective, Zwicker's Gallery, Halifax, NS
1975, LeRoy Zwicker in Retrospect, Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts, Halifax, NS;
Touring
1982, Retrospective Exhibition and Sale of Paintings by LeRoy and Marguerite
Zwicker, Manuge Galleries Limited, Halifax, NS
1989, LeRoy Zwicker Retrospective, Zwicker's Gallery, Halifax, NS

Selected Group Exhibitions
Ontario Society of Artists, Toronto, ON
Canadian Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers
Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour
Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, QC
Canadian Graphic Society, Toronto, ON
Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, ON
1924, British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, England
c.1927, Paris Salon, Paris, France
c.1930, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Ottawa, ON
c.1942, Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, QC
1946, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Ottawa, ON
1947, Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, ON
1953, 27th Annual Exhibition of the Nova Scotia Society of Artists, Halifax, NS
1953, Annual Exhibition of Painting, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
1957, Biennial of Canadian Painting, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
c.1957, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Ottawa, ON
1963, Biennial of Canadian Painting, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
1965, Maritime Art Exhibition, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
1982, Retrospective Exhibition and Sale of Paintings by LeRoy and Marguerite
Zwicker, Manuge Galleries Ltd., Halifax, NS
1997, Diamond Jubilee: Nova Scotia Society of Artists, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia,
Halifax, NS
2001, Back to the Land: Early 20th Century Landscapes in the Permanent Collection,
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS

Selected Awards and Prizes
1953, Award of Honour (for painting Atomic), 27th Annual Exhibition of the Nova
Scotia Society of Artists, Halifax, NS
1965, Exhibition Winner's Prize (for painting Colour Bars), Beaverbrook Art Gallery,
Fredericton, NB
1969, Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design,
Halifax, NS

Selected Memberships and Affiliations
1929, Member, Nova Scotia Society of Artists; 1930, Secretary; 1950, President,
Halifax, NS
1929, Director, Fine Art Department, Nova Scotia Exhibition
Co-founder, Maritime Art Association, Halifax, NS; 1940, President
Member, Board of Governors, Nova Scotia College of Art, Halifax, NS
Founder, Professional Art Dealer's Association of Canada
1986, Chairman, Acquisition Committee, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS

References
Artist's Documentation File, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives.
Barnard, Elissa. "At the Galleries", Halifax Mail Star, March 17, 1989.
Biennial of Canadian Painting, Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1957 & 1963.
Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolours by Marguerite Zwicker March 20 - April 4,
1958, and LeRoy Zwicker April 4- April 18, 1958, Know Your Artist series No 3,
Halifax: Dalhousie University, 1958.
Garvey, Susan Gibson. Back to the Land: Early 20th Century Landscapes in the
Permanent Collection, Halifax: Dalhousie Art Gallery, 2001.
Hancock, Glen. "Zwicker's … Canada's pioneer art gallery", Halifax Mail Star, May
31, 1986.
Koehler-Vandergraf, Marie. Marguerite Zwicker: Watercolours, Art Gallery of Nova
Scotia, 1991.
O'Neill, Mora Dianne. Diamond Jubilee: Nova Scotia Society of Artists, Halifax: Art
Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1997.
Paikowsky, Sandra. Nova Scotian Pictures: Art in Nova Scotia 1940-1966, Halifax:
Dalhousie ArtGallery, 1994.
Zwicker, LeRoy. "Art in Nova Scotia", Canadian Art, Vol 3, No 1, October, 1945.

Judith Parker
Compiled October 2008

[Source:Judith Parker, "ZWICKER, LeRoy Judson", October 2008, 6 p., A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volume 9 (online only),
by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker, National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, document
obtained by François Lareau from the National Gallery of Canada under Access to Information Act Request A2024-007]
 

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References in parentheses / Références entre parenthèses

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Zwicker, Mary Marguerite Porter, 1904-1993,  (McKendry; Tippett; Nova Scotia;
------Dalhousie Art Gallery; Biographical Index of Artists in Canada; Early Women Artists;
------Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Permanent Collection: Selected Works;  Canadian Women Artists History Initiative--Concordia University)
------ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Porter_Zwicker

ZWICKER, Mary Marguerite Porter

Born: 28 November, 1904, Pleasant Valley, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died: 22 September 1993, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Marguerite Zwicker was a prominent watercolour painter in Halifax from the 1930s
onwards, known for her mastery of brushwork and draughtsmanship. She also
produced works in gouache, pastel, and linocut. Her subject matter included floral
studies, landscapes, seascapes, views of the Nova Scotian coastline, fishing villages
and street scenes, portraits, still life paintings, and views of Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

Mary Marguerite Porter was born and raised in a large family in Pleasant Valley, near
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. In her teen years she showed early promise as a painter.
From 1924 to 1928, Porter studied watercolour, oil painting and printmaking at the
Victoria College of Art in Halifax, (which became the Nova Scotia College of Art
(NSCA) in 1925), with Elizabeth Nutt and others, supported by a three-year
Lieutenant-Governor's scholarship. From 1928 to 1930, she was hired as an instructor
at the College, and in 1929 she obtained a teaching diploma from this institution.
From 1931 to 1933, during the Depression, Porter taught at Acadia University in
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, in exchange for room and board. From 1933 to 1937, she
established a studio and gallery in Yarmouth, where she sold her work.

During the summers Porter continued her training in painting, and in 1932 and 1933
attended workshops with Stanley Royle in Nova Scotia where she discovered the
watercolour medium. Under Royle's training she became liberated from the strictures
imposed by her academic art studies, as his approach stressed colour value theory and
the structure of composition through massed areas of light and dark. During the first
workshop, Porter met artist LeRoy Zwicker, her future husband, and in 1937 on
September 4th, they married in Halifax. Zwicker and her husband went on to become
leading members of Halifax's art community and owners of the prominent Zwicker's
Gallery, until it was sold in 1968.

One of her numerous flower studies, Calla Lilies, 1940, composed on two diagonals,
was described by curator Marie Koehler-Vandergraaf, as "velvety and warm [in
colour and tone]." Her portrait, Patricia, 1940, also painted by her husband at the
same sitting, depicts an elegantly dressed young woman.

A review of Zwicker's exhibition at the Granville Galleries in the Halifax Mail on
October 29, 1945, described her work as using a "fresh and vivid technique" and
noted that she "strives for detail in her paintings."

Zwicker continued her studies and attended summer training workshops in the USA.
In 1949 she went on a study trip to the American Southwest, including California, and
Western Canada. Her watercolour Glacier National Park, #1, 1949, painted during the
summer in the Canadian Rockies, is bold, fresh and dramatic, revealing ochre-tinged
mountain tops contrasted against diagonally shadowed slopes washed in indigo and
viridian.

Her lino-cut, The Merry-Go-Round, was reproduced in Maritime Art in 1942, and her
painting Things on a Wharf was included in the exhibition, Nova Scotian
Pictures, held in 1946, which toured the Maritimes.

From 1942 -1968, Zwicker and her husband operated the Zwicker's Gallery.
Marguerite Zwicker managed the Gallery due to her husband's employment with
Moir's Chocolates. She also worked behind the scenes at the magazine Maritime
Art as a proof reader, contributor correspondent and most importantly as the
subscription coordinator. Under Zwicker's management the magazine's subscription
list increased from twenty-five people in 1940, to one thousand in 1943. Maritime
Art was established in 1940 by her husband, LeRoy Zwicker and editor Professor
Walter Abell of Acadia University; in 1944, the magazine moved to Ottawa with
Abell, and became the national publication Canadian Art.

In 1952, Zwicker went on her first study and painting trip to Europe. Her memoir, On
My Own, self-published in 1959, describes her travels in Portugal, Spain and Italy.

Zwicker's watercolour Blue Rocks, 1956, depicting fishing shacks along the water's
edge, was described by curator Marie Koehler-Vandergraaf in 1991 as, "swiftly
painted, almost expressionistically drawn, its bleak sky and peaked buildings recall
the Newfoundland paintings of Lawren Harris twenty years before. … [it captures] the
feeling of damp air and… a specific place."

In 1961, Zwicker took a painting workshop with New England watercolourist, Eliot
O'Hara, whose style of combined dry and wet technique and the advice to paint
outdoors from nature inspired her. She also studied later with J.W.S. Cox in Rockport,
Massachusetts.

In 1991, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia held a solo exhibition of forty watercolors by
Zwicker dating from 1940 to 1991, curated by Marie Koehler-Vandergraaf. In
describing her watercolour Tulips and Daffodils, c.1970, Koehler-Vandergraaf
admired her approach, "… each flower is a small spontaneous painting of its own, rich
in an impressionistic range of colours: one tulip contains no fewer than seven
colours… Among the leaves and the background Zwicker has used a dry-brush
technique … [giving] 'sparkle', a surface diffraction... the hallmark of a fine
watercolorist."

Zwicker died a few years later in Halifax, in 1993, aged eighty-nine.

Selected Public Collections
Charlottetown, PE, Confederation Centre Art Gallery
Dartmouth, NS, Dartmouth Heritage Museum
Halifax, NS, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Halifax, NS, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Nova Scotia Art Bank
Sackville, NB, Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University

Selected Solo and Dual Exhibitions
1942, Exhibition of Watercolours by Ruth Wainwright and Marguerite Zwicker, Lord
Nelson Hotel, Halifax, NS
1945, Marguerite Zwicker, Granville Galleries, Halifax, NS
c.1946, New York, NY, USA
1958, Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolours by Marguerite Zwicker March 20 - April
4, 1958, and LeRoy Zwicker April 4- April 18, 1958, Dalhousie University, Halifax,
NS
c.1960, Halifax Memorial Library, Halifax, NS
1982, Retrospective Exhibition and Sale of Paintings by LeRoy and Marguerite
Zwicker, Manuge Galleries Ltd., Halifax, NS
1991, Marguerite Zwicker: Watercolours, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS

Selected Group Exhibitions
1929, 1930, Painters and Etchers Society
1929, International Salon, British Columbia
1930-1949, Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, QC
1935, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
1941, Maritime Art Association
1943, 1944, Nova Scotia Society of Artists
c.1949, Whittier Water Color Exhibition, California Society of Artists, California,
USA
Maritime Art Exhibition, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
1946, Nova Scotian Pictures, Halifax; touring provincial exhibition
1972, Painters of Nova Scotia, The Robertson Galleries, Ottawa, ON
1975, A Selection of Works by Women Artists in Nova Scotia 1850-1950, Centennial
Art Gallery, Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts, Halifax, NS
1997, Diamond Jubilee: Nova Scotia Society of Artists, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia,
Halifax, NS
2001, Back to the Land: Early 20th Century Landscapes in the Permanent Collection,
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS

Selected Prizes and Honours
1927, Lieutenant-Governor's Graduation Prize, Nova Scotia College of Art, Halifax,
NS
1972, Don J. Oland Prize, Watercolour Painting, Atlantic Winter Fair, Halifax, NS
1990, Honorary Governor, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS

Selected Memberships
1926, Member, Nova Scotia Society of Artists; Secretary; 1947, Treasurer
1947, College Art Association, Nova Scotia Branch
Chair, Membership Committee, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS; 1982, Board
of Directors

References
Artist's Documentation File, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives.
A Selection of Works by Women Artists in Nova Scotia 1850-1950, Halifax:
Centennial Art Gallery, Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts, 1975.
Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolours by Marguerite Zwicker March 20 - April 4,
1958, and LeRoy Zwicker April 4- April 18, 1958, Know Your Artist series No 3,
Halifax: Dalhousie University, 1958.
Koehler-Vandergraf, Marie. Marguerite Zwicker: Watercolours, Halifax: Art Gallery
of Nova Scotia, 1991.
Garvey, Susan Gibson. Back to the Land: Early 20th Century Landscapes in the
Permanent Collection, Halifax: Dalhousie Art Gallery, 2001.
O'Neill, Mora Dianne. Diamond Jubilee: Nova Scotia Society of Artists, Halifax: Art
Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1997.
Nova Scotian Pictures, Halifax: Department of Education, 1946.
Paikowsky, Sandra. Nova Scotian Pictures: Art in Nova Scotia 1940-1966, Halifax:
Dalhousie ArtGallery, 1994.
Zwicker, Marguerite. On My Own, Halifax: Marguerite Zwicker, 1959.

Judith Parker
Compiled October 2008

[Source:Judith Parker, "ZWICKER, Mary Marguerite Porter", October 2008, 5 p., A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volume 9 (online only),
by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker, National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, document
obtained by François Lareau from the National Gallery of Canada under Access to Information Act Request A2024-007]

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