Reference: see artist's website www.allensapp.com

see Cree Life - the Art of Allen Sapp, published by J. Warner, Douglas Ltd., 1977; Two Spirits Soar - The Art of Allen Sapp, The Inspiration of Allan Gonor, by W.P. Kinsella, published by Stoddart, 1990; Kiskayetum - Allen Sapp: - Retrospective, by Bob Boyer, published by MacKenzie Art Gallery, 1994; The Song Within My Heart, David Bouchard, published by Raincoast Books, 2002; Nokum is My Teacher, by David Bouchard, Red Deer Press, 2006; included in Time for Dialogue, by Joane Cardinal-Schubert, pg. 19, published by Calgary Aboriginal Awareness Society, 1992; biographies in Biographical Dictionary of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by Marketa Newman, pg. 223, published by Fifth House, 1994; Westbridge, Vol. 4, pg. 4; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: Schaeffer was a student at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He studied under professor Fernand Cormon who went on to establish his own atelier in Montmarte in 1883 that welcomed painters such as van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. Schaeffer was a member of the Salon des Artistes Francais from 1934 onwards. His early works were generally religious or architectural but he went on to paint atmospheric scenes of Paris.
biography found in Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, by E.Benezit, Tome 7, pg. 555

Reference: The Southam Building on the corner of 7th Ave and 1st Street SW in Calgary was built in 1913. It later became known as "The Herald Building" after its most prominent tenant, the Calgary Herald newspaper. It was an impressive structure ornamented with many grotesques. (A gargoyle is a decorated waterspout that projects from a roof and carries rainwater away from the walls of a building, protecting it from damage. A grotesque is a decorative carving that has no functional architectural purpose.) These grotesques were designed by Mark Villars Marshall and produced by Royal Doulton at their Lambeth Studio in 1912. The building was demolished in 1972 due to structural problems that could not be amended.

Reference: biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg. 11, Westbridge Pub., 2003; biography and another example in N.G.C., Vol.III, by R.Hubbard, pg.277; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.367 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.343; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

Reference: Shadbolt was born in England and came to Victoria, British Columbia as a child with his family. His work is represented in all the major galleries across Canada as well as in corporate and private collections. Shadbolt's numerous awards include the Order of Canada in 1972 and an Honorary Degree from the University of British Columbia. In 1987 he and his wife, art historian and curator Doris Shadbolt, established VIVA, the Vancouver Institute for Visual Arts, which supports and recognizes the achievement of artists in British Columbia.

For further biograhical information and scholarly essays see the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery website at shadbolt.belkin.ubc.ca and also artist listing at National Gallery of Canada; see In Search of Form, by J.Shadbolt, McClelland, 1968; Jack Shadbolt, by S.Watson, Douglas and McIntyre, 1990; Correspondences - Jack Shadbolt, by P.Ainslie, Glenbow Museum, 1991; Counterpoint: The Prints of Jack Shadbolt, by K.Henry, Burnaby Art Gallery, 1996; A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.417 and N.G.C. Vol.III, by R.Hubbard, pg.279; biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg.18, Westbridge Pub., 2003; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.371 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.348

Reference: Calgary born Shaw benefitted at an early age from the instruction of his mother who was an artist. He has worked as an illustrator for the federal government and as a teacher to Dene children along Great Slave Lake. Despite his love of the North, he resettled on Vancouver Island to work as an artist full time.

For more biographical information and examples of work see websites at White Rock Gallery and Webster Galleries

Reference: Raised in the mining town of Rosedale, Shelton felt a kinship with both nature and working class people which greatly influenced her art. She studied under such celebrated artists as A.C. Leighton, H.G. Glyde and Walter J. Phillips, and managed to appear regularly in Alberta art exhibitions despite raising a family during the 1950s and '60s. She was a master printmaker whose ouevre of vibrant and meticulous work has enriched the Canadian art tradition.

For detailed biography, articles, and examples of work see the artist's website margaretshelton.ca; see also Margaret Shelton: Block Prints 1936-1984, by P.Ainslie [MSBP#], Glenbow Museum [no date]; Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by B.Cochran, pg.132; Images of the Land, 1919-1945, by P.Ainslie, pg.90; included in Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, pg.28, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955; included in Alberta Society of Artists, the First Seventy-Five Years, by K.Zimon, pg.43, U of C Press; biographies in Westbridge,Vol.4, pg.507 and North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, ed.J.Heller, pg.507, Garland Pub., 1995

Reference: biography and other examples in N.G.C. Vol.III, by R.Hubbard, pg.281; and A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.419; biography in Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg.21, Westbridge Pub., 2003; exhibition list in R.C.A.A., pg.372 and M.M.F.A., pg.350, by E.McMann

Reference: Simard studied at Petit Séminaire de Québec and Académie de Québec then graduated in 1966 from Toronto’s Ontario College of Art in visual communications. He worked in advertising, commercial art, and graphic design, eventually founding his own firm, Groupe Communikart and winning several awards. He was a co-founding member of the Quebec Graphic Designers Society and became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1981. Despite a busy schedule of business and teaching he always maintained his own artistic practise and is represented in galleries and collections across Canada. He also published 3 books on his passions of gardening and painting.

For detailed biography and examples of work see the artist's website at Claude Simard; see also Claude A. Simard - Painting and Planting the Garden, by C.Simard, 2000; biography and another example in Guide Vallee, III Edition, by F.Vallee, pg.990, pub. Le Guide Vallee, 1992; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg.25, Westbridge Pub., 2003

Reference: see artist's website at www.sinclairart.com; see Mountains and the Sky, by L.Render, pg.206 for other examples of the artist's work in the collection of the Glenbow Museum; Biographical Dict. of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by M.Newman, pg.233, Fifth House Pub., 1994; Spaces and Places: Eight Decades of Landscape Painting in Alberta, by J.Ironside, pg.30

Reference: Born in Southern China, Mian Situ received his formal art training in his native homeland of Guangdong, formerly Canton. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Guangzhou Institute of Fine Art, and a few years later earned a Masters in Fine Art. He emigrated from China to the USA in 1987 and has worked in Los Angeles since 1998. Mian’s artistic versatility is evident in his portraiture as well as his more recent works inspired by western historical themes and American landscapes. During the 2003 Masters of the American West show at the Gene Autry Museum, he was honored with three major awards: the Thomas Moran Memorial Award (in recognition of exceptional artistic merit), Artists’ Choice Award and Patrons’ Choice Award.

For more biographical information and examples of work see the artist's website at www.miansitu.net and also American Legacy Fine Arts

Reference: Alberta artist Skinner has won many juried awards at exhibitions of Western Art.

See article at Calgary Herald; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website at CHIN

Reference: Skoracki emigrated from Germany to Canada in 1988 after a distinguished career in the European advertising industry. He studied at both the Alberta College of Art + Design and the University of Calgary, receiving a BFA with distinction in 1997. His works are held in numerous public, corporate and private collections in Canada and abroad.

For more biographical information and examples of artist's work see website at Kurbatoff Gallery and Gallery 133

Reference: see Gordon Smith Don't Look Back, by I.Thom, Black Dog Pub., 2014; Black and White, by Patrik Andersson, pub. Equinox Gallery, 2011; Gordon Smith by D. Coupland, pub. Equinox Gallery, 2003; Gordon Smith: The Act of Painting, by I. M. Thom and A. Hunter, Douglas & McIntyre, 1997; Gordon Smith Recent Work by K.Wallace, V.A.G., 1988; A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.423 as well as N.G.C. Vol.III, by R.Hubbard, pg. 283 for biography and other examples; 1975-76 The Canadian Canvas, by Time Canada Ltd., 1975; included in 7 West Coast Painters, by I.McNairn, Fine Arts Gallery, U.B.C., 1959; see also Westbridge, Vol.4, pg. 30; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website; brother of Donald Appelbe Smith; co-founder of Artists for Kids Trust in 1989, with Jack Shadbolt and Bill Reid; see website at www.smithfoundation.ca for ongoing charitable arts-related work of Gordon and his wife, Marion

Reference: Snow was born in Vancouver in 1911, lived in England during WW1 and with the family returned to Olds, Alberta in 1919. He had successful career for over 43 years with the Royal Bank of Canada and served with the Royal Canadian Air Force in WWII. After the war he and Maxwell Bates began a fruitful friendship that invigorated the art scene in Calgary and supported the modernist period of art in Alberta. As self-taught printers they began making lithographs with two old machine presses they rescued from an alleyway and this medium came to define Snow's work, though he also worked in watercolour, oil, mixed media, concrete sculpture, textiles, and intaglio relief. In addition to his talent in the visual arts, Snow was an accomplished musician who helped create the New Works Calgary Society and he also organized the Calgary Film Society in the late 1940s. He was inducted as a member of the Alberta Order of Excellence in 1996. His residence and studio is now registered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places; see John Snow House

For more detailed biographical information see Government of Alberta and Feckless Collection; see a comprehensive 2002 article written in Galleries West; see also John Snow: Four Decades, by M.Joslin, E.A.G., 1990; Founders of the A.C.A., by V.Greenfield, pg.101 and pg.65; Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by B.Cochran, pg.137 and A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.425; included in Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, pg.28, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955; included in Alberta Society of Artists, the First Seventy-Five Years, by K.Zimon, pg.42, pl.45a, UofC Press; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg.35, Westbridge Pub., 2003 for biography; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.383 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.360

Reference: see artist's website www.sopel.com

represented by Canada House Gallery, Banff and Kube Gallery, Fort Langley; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website at Artists in Canada

Reference: see Spirit Matters - Ron [Gyo-Zo] Spickett, Artist, Poet, Lay-Priest, by G.Simmins, UofC Press, 2009; Founders of the A.C.A., by L.Greenfield pg.102; A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.427; Permanent Collection, 1968, by F.Smith, cat.# 136, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1968; Biographical Dict. of Saskatchewan Artists - Men, by M.Newman, pg.238, Fifth House Pub., 1994; included in Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, pg.29, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955; retrospective exhibition at the Triangle Gallery of Visual Art, Calgary in 1999; included in Alberta Society of Artists, the First Seventy Five Years, by K.Zimon, pg.101, plate 41, UofC Press

Reference: see artist's website at Spina Art; also the author of Arctic Notes and Prairie Places: The Poetry and Art of Ferdinando Spina, Bayeux Arts, 2006; listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website at Artists in Canada

Reference: see W.L.Stevenson, 1926-1966: Painter of Light/Painter of Darkness, by M.Joslin, E.A.G., 1995; Founders of the A.C.A., by V.Greenfield, pg.103; included in Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, pg.29, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg. 45, Westbridge Pub., 2003

Reference: Vanessa Stockard was born in Sydney, Australia in 1975, and she continues to live and work there. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the College of Fine Arts in Sydney, Australia in 1998. Since the launch of her career shortly after graduation, her work has been exhibited in Hong Kong, Los Angeles, New York City, among others.

For more biographical information and examples of work see Wizard Gallery and A.K. Bellinger Gallery

Reference: Svob has been a full time artist/teacher since 1982. He studied at the University of Western Ontario and is a past president of the Federation of Canadian Artists.

For more biographical information and examples of work see artist's website at Mike Svob; represented by White Rock Gallery and Canada House Gallery