Discovering Canada through Christmas Cards

Christmas Cards from the 1920s and 1930s by some of Canada’s most renowned artists. The first slide show shows the cards as enhanced to remove foxing and yellowing. The second slide show shows the cards as downloaded from the Library and Archives Canada.

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The order of the cards is random. The individual cards are posted below the second slide show. To find out more about the individual artists go to the National Gallery of Canada which has a listing of artists in its collection.

https://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=4676

You can also find many of these artists (though not all) in the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario at:

http://www.ago.net/search?Q=%22Sarah+Robertson%22

Many of these artists’ works are also in the Collection of the McMichael Gallery:

http://www.mcmichael.com/collection/

 

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My favourite artist of the period is Tom Thomson. I could not find a Christmas card by him, but this painting, Path behind Mowat Lodge, 1917, evokes everything I love about the bush at Christmas time.