Aug. 24 marks the centenary of Alex Colville, OC, the great modern realist painter who died in 2013. Although his artwork portrayed a world of muted colours and stark scenes, the man himself, as I ...

The hazy images take up just one small corner of a massive new exhibition on revered Canadian artist Alex Colville at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. But his depictions of corpses at ...

In 2014, I attended the Art Gallery of Ontario’s exhibition of the works of Alex Colville. As I roamed the rooms of the gallery, a phrase began to echo like a mantra in my mind: the Colville stories; ...

Sunday EditionRemembering Painter Alex Colville (1974 This Country in the Morning Interview Encore) Alex Colville was many things during his long life: a painter, a teacher, an engraver, a sketch ...

This interview originally aired on March 30, 2019. Late Breaking, the latest collection of short stories by K.D. Miller, is based on the art of Alex Colville. The collection centres on characters ...

At the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) from August 23, 2014 to January 4, 2015 and at The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa from April 24 to Sept. 7, 2015. In Canada, the country of his birth, Alex ...

Though he was friends with artist Alex Colville, Ray Cronin only found out about the late painter’s self-built cabin in northern Nova Scotia when someone sent him a real estate listing for the ...

Under the skylit, vaulted ceiling in the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Print and Drawing Study Centre, Alex Colville is everywhere. Helpfully propped up for close viewing, or carefully arrayed flat on ...

Celebrated painter Alex Colville, whose meticulously crafted scenes of everyday life established him as one of Canada’s most well-known modern artists, has died at the age of 92. His son, Graham,, ...

Alex Colville had just completed his PhD in genetics at Stanford when he met Laura Deming, the wunderkind who dropped out of MIT at 16 and launched The Longevity Fund. At an age when most teenagers ...