Colville, Forrestall, Pratt & Pratt: The Work Behind the Work, a new show at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, examines the Atlantic Realists impact on Canadian art
New show at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia examines the Atlantic Realists impact on Canadian art
Morgan Mullin · CBC Arts
· Posted: Nov 12, 2026 1:21 PM EST | Last Updated: 5 hours ago
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Audiences at the Work Behind the Work at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. (Courtesy of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia/Dean Casavechia)
Nearly-empty jam jars gleaming like jewels. A woman looking through binoculars on the deck of a ferry, as expressionless as the open sky behind her. A grey ship in greyer water, barely visible through falling snow. These scenes are the sort of slice-of-life moments that the Atlantic Realists — a group of artists who got their start in 1960s New Brunswick — captures.
“I think it’s really about the significance of the everyday,” says Ray Cronin, director of the Marion McCain Institute for Atlantic Canadian Art at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. A former journalist who’s written books on many of the Atlantic Realists, he says that this is artwork with an important reminder for modern life,
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