Photograph of Andrew Kear

Andrew Kear

Author

Andrew Kear is chief curator and curator of Canadian art at the Winnipeg Art Gallery and a sessional lecturer at the University of Winnipeg. His curatorial efforts include William Kurelek: The Messenger, Storm and Spirit: The Eckhardt-Gramatté Collection of German Expressionist Art, and L.L. FitzGerald’s Impressionist Decade, 1910–1920. In 2016 he prepared the first survey exhibition on the painter Karel Funk. Kear’s writing has been published in Canadian Art, Border Crossings, and Sculpture.

Online Art Books

Painting of children sledding and playing on a large snow-covered hill in a wide winter landscape
William Kurelek: Life & Work

Essays

EssayPainting the Cultural Mosaic

William Kurelek traversed the country in a quest to capture its diverse inhabitants

EssayThe Kurelek Controversy

No Canadian painter has ever been so simultaneously praised and reviled

Andrew Kear - Art Canada