JOANNE TOD "COPPER BIRDS" WATERCOLOR, 2021Joanne Tod (b. 1953) is a renowned Canadian artist acclaimed for her masterful figurative paintings. Over the course of her illustrious career, Tod has depicted a wide range of subjects. The human figure, pattern, museum display and interiors have been recurring and essential elements of Tods oeuvre. She is also one of the most celebrated living portrait artists. For Tod, these past few years have been an incredibly fruitful period as she has

Kenneth Noland (1924–2010) made an essential contribution to American abstraction

as one of the most original abstract painters

her palette expands notably with her printmaking

Click here to see another example of a lonely city sleeper held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

"Tree of Life"

" at a local music festival

Fluorescent paint on paper mounted on purple silk

By masking the author of the essays

The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles)

uplifting and patriotic images have independently earned their place in the nation's museums

Pierre is responsible for the photographs and Gilles paints the image once printed to canvas

Emerging in the 1990s with his snapshot documentation of youths