Alan Klinkhoff Gallery
Alan Klinkhoff Gallery is a Canadian fine art corporation located in Montreal and Toronto. A member of the Art Dealers Association of Canada, the firm provides acquisition and evaluation services for collectors, as well as exhibitions and sales of Canadian art by such artists as Paul-Émile Borduas, Emily Carr, Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Jean Paul Lemieux, David Milne, Robert Pilot, and Marc-Aurèle Suzor-Côté. Alan Klinkhoff, a frequent commenter on Canadian art and art market, is quoted in the Montreal Gazette, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Financial Post, The New York Times, and on CBC Television. The gallery, a successor to Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, is known for museum-quality, non-sale exhibitions of important Canadian painters.
Alan Klinkhoff
The son of Montreal gallerists Walter and Gertrude Klinkhoff, Alan Klinkhoff was first introduced to the art world at age 12 when he delivered three paintings from A.Y. Jackson's Ottawa studio to Galerie Walter Klinkhoff. A dealer of the Group of Seven, the gallery was known for "museum-quality exhibitions at which nothing was for sale". In 1970 Alan took his first purchasing trip overseas and in 1972 began to assist in the gallery during school holidays. In 1974 he studied art in Paris and, on his return to the gallery, co-founded with his brother Eric a fine-art evaluation, restoration and framing service, Services D'Art Klinkhoff. Alan also assisted with the gallery's retrospectives for Marc-Aurèle Suzor-Coté, Paul-Émile Borduas, and A.Y. Jackson. The Klinkhoffs, known for their support of the Beaver Hall Group, also organized retrospective exhibitions for Prudence Heward, Ethel Seath, Mabel Lockerby, Ann Savage, and Lilias Torrance as well as a group show. From 1988 to 1997 Alan Klinkhoff was contracted as an art evaluator for the federal Department of Justice. After the death of his father in 1997, Alan's sons Jonathan and Craig apprenticed with the gallery. In 2013, following Sotheby's departure from art auctions in Canada, Alan was interviewed on the Canadian art market in The Financial Post. After the dissolution of Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Alan, together with his wife Helen and sons Jonathan and Craig, established the Alan Klinkhoff Gallery.
The gallery encourages visits by "art students, teachers, collectors and a general public" through lecture series and open exhibitions. The Montreal gallery, managed by Alan Klinkhoff and son Craig, mounted the graduating class of Montreal's Lower Canada College Exhibition. The gallery also mounts popular, non-sale retrospective exhibitions open to the public. In 2016 the Montreal and Toronto galleries exhibition of art and hockey sticks Fine Art & Hockey: A Point of View attracted hockey stars Sidney Crosby and Brad Marchand.