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To commemorate our 175th anniversary, Scotiabank Group commissioned John Hartman's Halifax (2006) as a gift to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Halifax
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Scotiabank Group commissioned a major new painting by Canadian artist John Hartman to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS), showing the port of Halifax and a range of narratives and historic events which have moved the city forward in the 175 years since the Bank was incorporated on March 30th, 1832.
To cross the world as Hartman does - to soar over the land to its very horizon - the delerious, beautiful act.
- Noah Richler
In addition to the artwork gift to the AGNS, Scotiabank Group is the presenting sponsor of the "Cities: John Hartman" touring exhibition, which brings together 18 new Hartman works from a variety of public and private collections. As one of Canada's leading contemporary painters, Hartman is known for his large-scale expressionistic landscape paintings animated with the imagery of local historic events and personal narratives.
Scotiabank Group is extending Free Admission to "Cities:John Hartman" to all ScotiaCard holders.
More About the Exhibit
"Cities: John Hartman" Exhibit Dates
Please note that there are two traveling tours across Canada from 2007 through to 2009. One will tour public galleries in Canada, while the other will go to commercial galleries in Toronto, Montreal, New York and London in 2007.
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Halifax, Nova Scotia
March 5 to April 22, 2007
Tom Thomson Art Gallery
Owen Sound, Ontario
May 4 to June 17, 2007
Art 45
Montreal, Quebec
May 2007
Art Gallery of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
June 29 to August 25, 2007
Nicholas Metivier Gallery
Toronto, Ontario
September 6 - 29, 2007
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
September 8 - November 30, 2007
Jill George Gallery
London, England
September 16 to October 19, 2007
Southern Alberta Art Gallery
Lethbridge, Alberta
November 29 to January 12, 2007
Charles Cowles Gallery
New York, New York
December 12 - 31, 2007
University of Toronto Art Centre
Toronto, Ontario
February 12 to March 19, 2008
Kenderdine Art Gallery
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
April 4 to June 27, 2008
Art Gallery of Sudbury
Sudbury, Ontario
July 13 to September 7, 2008
Maclaren Art Centre
Barrie, Ontario
September 18 to November 1, 2008
Sir Wilfred Grenfell College
Art Gallery
Cornerbrook, Newfoundland
January 26 to April 6, 2009
The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery
St. John's, Newfoundland
September 2009
The Book
 To complement the art tour and to help chronicle the works of one of Canada's most respected contemporary Canadian artists, Scotiabank Group has also sponsored an accompanying book, "Cities: John Hartman," published by Altitude Press.
The fully-illustrated book features essays by Noah Richler, award-winning author and journalist, Dennis Reid, Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Ontario, and Stuart Reid.
About John Hartman
John Hartman was born in 1950 in Midland, Ontario and studied Fine Art at McMaster University. In the 1980s with the emergence of Neo-Expressionism, Hartman began to experiment with works that combined figurative, narrative and landscape traditions that would later evolve into the unique painterly expression for which he is acclaimed today.
He received national exposure with the exhibit and catalogue Big North, which toured the country between 1999 and 2002. Hartman works between his studio and home near Lafontaine and his island on Georgian Bay in Ontario, and frequently travels across North America and Europe sketching, photographing, and documenting landscapes, cities and their stories for his paintings.
Fully illustrated book designed by Barr Gilmore, published by Altitude Press with contributions by Noah Richler, the award-winning journalist and author of This is My Country What's Yours?, Dennis Reid, Chief Curator Art Gallery of Ontario and Stuart Reid, Director and Curator of the Tom Thomson Art Gallery.
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