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Homer on the Range

From Sophocles to Danielle Smith

The Silver Scream

On heebie-jeebies past and present

Laura Brandon

Laura Brandon was the curator of war art at the Canadian War Museum for over twenty years.

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Laura Brandon

Art and Letters

A. Y. Jackson’s early years October 2022
I have always found it interesting that what Canadian artists write can be as remarkable as — sometimes even more memorable than — what they paint, draw, or sculpt. There are, of course, exceptions. Tom Thomson was apparently not much of a letter writer, but he was a spectacularly inspiring painter. Thankfully, his peers wrote to one another about…