Ottawa Art & ArtistsAn Illustrated History

“Ottawa is more than the national capital. Politicians may come and go, but the living, breathing city is still there, filled with people who are proud to call it home, and with a thriving and vibrant artistic scene.”

– Jim Burant

Author Jim Burant introduces the reader to Ottawa as a thriving centre of Canadian art, a city of pivotal museums and galleries, groundbreaking national exhibitions, inspiring community leaders, and transformative artists. Ottawa’s artistic development has included many artists working in a variety of media, representing a tremendous diversity of backgrounds and interests. Burant guides the reader from pictographs created by Anishinaabe artists to vivid photographs of Canadian leaders in the era of Confederation, and from modern painters like David Milne and Pegi Nicol MacLeod to contemporary artists such as Annie Pootoogook, Jinny Yu, and Meryl McMaster. Journeying from Ottawa’s earliest days to the present, Burant deftly captures the spirit of the people who have played important roles in the city’s art scene. Ottawa Art & Artists presents a powerful narrative of the history of this metropolis and its enduring cultural achievements.

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Banner Images: (left) Ottawa, May 21, 1914, by Ernest Fosbery. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Purchase, 1914 (1009). (Right) Bring Me to This Place, 2017, by Meryl McMaster. Courtesy of the artist and Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, and Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montreal.