Alex Colville

Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto

Acquired from the above in October 1978 by the present owner

Ken Carpenter, "Alex Colville," Art in America, Vol. 67, 1979, pp. 145-46, illustrated

Claudine Romeo, "Density and Transparency in Alex Colville's Paintings," Opus International, Iss. 75, Winter 1980, p. 35 (text)

David Burnett and Marilyn Schiff, Contemporary Canadian Art, Edmonton, 1983, illustrated in color (on the cover)

James Chambers, "Canadian painter Alex Colville featured in first major retrospective," Canada Weekly, Vol. 11, No. 26, 13 July 1983, p. 7, illustrated

Hans Werner, "Nothing Phoney," Canadian Art, Vol. 4, No. 3, Fall 1987, pp. 76-77, illustrated in color

Reesa Greenberg, "Canadian Art Review," RACAR: Revue d'art Canadienne, Vol. 14, No. 1-2, 1987, p. 178 (text)

Robert Wood Wright, Economics, Enlightenment, and Canadian Nationalism, Montreal, 1993, p. 77 (text)

Mark Cheetham, Alex Colville: The Observer Observed, Toronto, 1994, pp. 23, 97, 103 (text)

Exh. Cat., Halifax, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (and traveling), Alex Colville: Return, 2003-2005, p. 79, illustrated in color

Frédérique Doyon, "Painter Alex Colville dies at 92," Le Devoir, 18 July 2013 (text) (online)

Robert Fulford, "Context is key to the power of the AGO’s new Alex Colville exhibition," National Post, 23 September 2014, illustrated in color (online)

Steven O’Brien, ed., "Letters from Iris Murdoch to Alex Colville," The London Magazine, 10 April 2015 (text) (online) (titled Priest and Dog)

Jérôme Delgado, "Alex Colville: Universal Painter, Eyes Open to the World," Le Devoir, 26 April 2015, p. E1, illustrated in color

Miguel Calvo Santos, "Dog and priest," Historia/Arte, 23 March 2016, illustrated in color (online)

Miriam Van Whitfield, "Alex Colville, A Canadian Painter with Global Influence," European American and Asian Art Alliance, 13 June 2024, illustrated in color (online)

Toronto, Mira Godard Gallery and Montreal, Mira Godard Gallery, Alex Colville, September - October 1978

Halifax, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Annapolis Valley/Seven Artists 1980, September - October 1980, p. 6, illustrated and p. 22 (text)

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle; Cologne, Museum Ludwig; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Halifax, Dalhousie University Art Gallery; and Vancouver Art Gallery, Alex Colville: A Retrospective, July 1983 - August 1984, no. 51, cat no. 113, p. 171 (text) and p. 173, illustrated in color (traveled to Toronto, Montreal, Halifax and Vancouver only)

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, November 2006 - September 2008 (extended loan)

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; and Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Colville, August 2014 - September 2015, p. 82, illustrated in color and p. 143 (text)