Within 20th Century Jewels: Sherman, Boucher, Dior, and the European Ateliers, Sherman is the Canadian anchor, and the thread is material as much as style. The Austrian crystal that gives these pieces their fire is the same crystal, from the same source, that supplied Dior and the houses placed beside him here.

Gustave Sherman is not a provincial adjunct to the European ateliers but a participant in a common enterprise: a Montreal maker who observed their standard, drew upon their material, and, on the evidence of the objects themselves, frequently met it.

Happy Canada Day.

Boat and Marker (1964), Snowplow (1967), and Sunrise (1970) — three works from a foundational decade, all reproduced in Helen J. Dow's 1972 monograph.

Among the rarer paintings from an artist best known as one of Canada's foremost printmakers. Blackwood reserved the Renaissance medium of oil tempera for a discrete body of cod fishery works made in the wake of the 1992 moratorium. Painted five years after the closure, Dipnet is a memorial portrait of an implement of a vanished trade. This work was first exhibited in the artist's 1998 solo exhibition at Heffel Gallery Limited, Vancouver.

Our 2026 Spring Auction includes a group of sixteen pieces by or attributed to Alban Schofield Emery (1893–1990) and his apprentice Peter Claessen — the last full generation of Saint John master cabinetmakers in a tradition stretching back to the early nineteenth century.