Gail Jarislowsky

Gail Merilees Jarislowsky received her BA from the University of British Columbia. She is also an alumna of Concordia University, where she completed a Master`s degree in English in 1991. Mrs. Jarislowsky has taught at both the elementary and secondary levels as well as in special education. She has worked in the field of public relations and occupied the position of Director for Virgin Records (Canada) Inc. during the early 1980s. Gail Jarislowsky is an active member of the Montreal community and is highly committed to volunteer work with a variety of organizations. Mrs. Jarislowsky is the past Chairman of The Montreal General Hospital Foundation.

Stephen A. Jarislowsky

Stephen A. Jarislowsky is a scholar, investment analyst and counsellor, and avid art collector. Born in Berlin, Germany, Mr. Jarislowsky attended schools in the Netherlands, France and the United States, and served with the US Army in post-war Japan before returning to complete a B.Sc. at Cornell, an MA at the University of Chicago and an MBA at Harvard University. In 1955 Mr. Jarislowsky established Jarislowsky, Fraser & Company in Montreal and directed the growth of the company to become one of the largest and most successful investment management firms in Canada. As a prominent leader in the field of Canadian investment counselling and analysis, his recent publication The Investment Zoo: Taming the Bulls and the Bears (Transcontinental, 2005) has received great acclaim for its incisive integration of history, culture, politics and finance.

Mr. Jarislowsky has sat on numerous corporate boards of directors including SNC-Lavalin, Canfor, Southam, Swiss Bank Corp., Velan, Abitibi and Goodfellow, participated in educational, cultural and charitable activities of many kinds, and endowed eleven S.A. Jarislowsky Chairs at various universities in different fields. He also frequently contributes commentaries to television and radio, as well as in magazines and newspapers. Mr. Jarislowsky is a recipient of the Order of Canada, a Chevalier de l' Ordre National du Québec, Honorary LL.D. from Queen's and the University of Alberta, the Université de Montréal, McMaster University, Concordia University, Assumption University as well as from the Université Laval. The Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia was established in 1998 through the generous financial support of Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky. 

Charles C. Hill, C.M.

Charles C. Hill has been part of the curatorial staff at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa since 1972 and in 1980, he was appointed Curator of Canadian Art. In 2001, he was made a member of the Order of Canada. Among the extensive list of exhibitions Mr. Hill has curated for the National Gallery are: Tom Thomson (NGC and Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2002), Terre Sauvage: The Canadian Landscape and the Group of Seven (circulated in China 2001, Scandinavia 2000 and Mexico 1999), The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation (1995), Morrice: A Gift to the Nation. The G. Blair Laing Collection (1992), A. Y. Jackson: A Centennial Celebration (1982), To Found a National Gallery: The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts 1880-1913 (1980), John Vanderpant, Photographs (1976), and Canadian Painting in the Thirties (1975).Mr. Hill has also co-edited the two-volume catalogue of the National Gallery’s Canadian art collection and wrote its introductory essay. He has also contributed essays to numerous exhibition publications including: “The National Gallery, A National Art, Critical Judgment and the State," in The True North Canadian Landscape Painting 1896-1939 (London: Barbican Art Gallery/Lund Humphries, 1991), essays for the prize winning  exhibition catalogue, Louis-Philippe Hébert (Musée du Québec/NGC 2001, and Louis Muhlstock (Art Gallery of Windsor, 1976), as well as articles in RACAR, The Journal of Canadian Art History/ Annales d'histoire de l'art canadien and The National Gallery of Canada Review, among various others . His essay “Tom Thomson, Painter” for the exhibition catalogue Tom Thomson won the 2003 Ontario Association of Art Galleries Award in the historical writing category. Mr. Hill is currently preparing a biography of the Montreal art dealer, Max Stern.

Ramsay Cook

Ramsay Cook is Professor of History (emeritus), York University and recently retired General Editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada. He has published many books and articles in the field of Canadian cultural, intellectual history. In 1984 his Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English-speaking Canada received the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. He has written for Canadian Art Magazine, edited Tim Zuck: Paintings and Drawings (1997), and contributed to Krieghoff: Images of Canada (1999), edited by Dennis Reid. His most recent book is The Teeth of Time: Remembering Pierre Elliott Trudeau. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2005 he was awarded the Molson Prize of the Canada Council in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

H. Arnold Steinberg, C.M.

Arnold Steinberg is a Montreal businessman, philanthropist and art collector. After graduating from McGill, he received an MBA from Harvard University. He has held directorships and senior management positions with Canadian companies including RBC Dominion Securities, Steinberg Inc., Ivanhoe Inc., Teleglobe and the Banque Nationale du Canada. He also has a lengthy record of service with numerous charitable, educational and cultural organizations. Among his many positions, he served as a member of the Canada Council and its Executive Committee, the Board of Governors of McGill University, and as Chairman of the Board of the McGill University Health Centre. He is currently Chair of the Board of Canada Health Infoway and a Member of the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. A member of the Order of Canada, Mr. Steinberg was awarded an honorary doctorate from McGill University and is also Governor Emeritus.

Esther Trépanier

Esther Trépanier has been a professor in the Department of Art History of the Université du Québec à Montréal since 1981, and from 2000 she has been Director of its École supérieure de mode de Montréal. Her research and numerous publications focus on early 20th century Quebec and Canadian art, with particular emphasis on questions of modernity. She has also curated and collaborated on several exhibitions of Quebec art, most notably for the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the Saidye Bronfman Centre, and recently, the Concordia gallery. Among her publications are: Jack Beder: lumières de la ville / city lights (Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, 2004), Marian Dale Scott: pionnière de l’art moderne (Musée du Québec, 2000), Univers urbains: la représentation de la ville dans l'art québécois du XXe siècle (Musée du Québec, 1998) and she has also contributed essays for exhibition catalogues such as Peindre à Montréal 1915-1930 (UQAM, 1996) and has also written on Adrien Hébert. Her Peintres juifs et modernité / Jewish painters and modernity: Montréal 1930-1945 (Centre Saidye-Bronfman, 1987) won the Prix d'excellence de l'Association des musées canadiens (1988) and her publication Peinture et modernité au Québec, 1919-1939, (Éditions Nota bene, 1998) was awarded the 1999-2000 Raymond Klibansky Prize from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. With Yvan Lamonde she co-authored L'avènement de la modernité culturelle au Québec (Institut québécois de recherche sur la culture, 1986). She has contributed to numerous learned publications including The Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d'histoire de l'art canadien. In 2005, she contributed a lengthy study on modern Quebec art in Lasting Impressions (Art Gallery of Hamilton) and is currently working on a revised and expanded study of Montreal’s Jewish painters.

Joyce Zemans , C.M.

Joyce Zemans is a Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at York University. As well, she is director of the MBA Program in Arts and Media Administration at York’s Schulich School of Business. She has held the Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies (1995-96) and is a former Dean of York’s Faculty of Fine Arts. From 1988 to 1992 Professor Zemans served as Director of the Canada Council for the Arts. She has been a member of advisory boards of the Toronto Arts Council, the Creative Trust, the Robarts Centre, and President of the Laidlaw Foundation of Canada. In 2002 Joyce Zemans was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada. Her research interests focus on nineteenth and twentieth century Canadian art and in recent years she has published a series of articles in The Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d'histoire de l'art canadien examining the role of the National Gallery reproductions program in framing the notion of Canadian art, as well as writing articles on Canadian women artists. Among her exhibition catalogues are: Kathleen Munn, Edna Taçon: New Perspectives on Modernism in Canada, Art Gallery of York University (1988), Christopher Pratt, Vancouver Art Gallery (1985), Jock MacDonald:The Inner Landscape, Art Gallery of Ontario, (1981) and Jock MacDonald, 1897-1960, National Gallery of Canada (1985). She has also addressed the topic of cultural policy in Comparing Cultural Policy: A Study of Japan and the United States (AltaMira/Sage, 1999) and Where is Here? Canadian Cultural Policy in a Globalized Environment (Robarts Centre, 1996). Her recent work includes Les Revenants: Long Shadows: The Art of Tony Urquhart (University of Waterloo, 2002) and “Considering the Canon” in Lasting Impressions (Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2005). She is also the co-editor of Strategies of Engagement: Museums after Modernism (Blackwells , 2006).