The Stewart Hall Art Gallery is honoured to present this retrospective exhibition of the paintings, prints, and watercolours of one of Canada’s most accomplished senior artists. A member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts since 1972, Montreal artist, Tobie Steinhouse, has, in her evocative, extensive body of work, captured a world of haunting beauty, one of poetry and spirituality, of softness and light.
Tobie Steinhouse is the consummate printmaker. She is a master of William Hayter’s multi-colour process of printing in which different colours of ink are applied to a plate depending on their viscosity. The resulting print is pulled from one single plate, eliminating the need for multiple plates for each colour.
Yet Tobie Steinhouse is first, and foremost, a painter; whose life-long passionate affair has been with light and luminosity. Hers is not the light of the Impressionists, but that magical, mystical light that she first discovered in Paris in 1948. In her many renditions of the roof tops vistas during her 10 year sojourn in France, Steinhouse has captured the moods of the city. Her Montreal views from her Westmount studio reflect a different light, but one that is just as captivating. Within the multiple layering of form and with the essence of light, Steinhouse offers a deep confluence of ideas and imagery, of abstraction and representation, in her work.
Tobie Steinhouse began her studies in Montreal with Anne Savage. She later studied at the Art Students' League in New York, and from 1948 to 1959 in Paris in the studio of painter Arpad Szenes. She had her first solo exhibition at the Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris, in 1957. Later, she studied etching and engraving at the famous Atelier 17 with William Hayter. Returning to Canada, Steinhouse was a founding member of L’Atelier libre de recherches graphiques and La Guilde graphique.
Steinhouse has had numerous solo exhibitions in Canada and abroad, and has participated in such international exhibitions as the Print Biennials in Bradford, England, Chile, Scotland, Venezuela, France, Italy, Switzerland and the USA. In addition to her prints and paintings, Steinhouse exhibits regularly with the School of Japanese Calligraphy of Quebec and has won annual awards for her calligraphy at the International Japanese Calligraphy Exhibition in Tokyo since 2001. Her work is represented in many private and public collections around the world, including the National Gallery in Ottawa, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Montreal Contemporary Art Museum, Le Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and the Ministries of External Affairs and International Trade in Ottawa, and Culture, Communications and Status of Women in Quebec.
VERNISSAGE : Sunday, January 29th at 2 pm
Wednesday, February 8 at 10 am
The Art of Tobie Steinhouse – painter and printmaker
with Joyce Millar and Tobie Steinhouse
(in English, bilingual question period)
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