Dave Rheaume Blogs

Let me start this blog with a disclaimer: the fact that I have run these two paintings side-by-side is by NO MEANS a statement that I equate them artistically. The painting on the left is by Alex Colville. It is "Infantry Near Nijmegen Holland". ... 

Here now is Colville's Horse and Train versus my own "Arriving at Union". I often get the "colville" comment when I exhibit this one, but I wonder if it's more a question of the subject matter than the artistic treatment.  

This is a Toronto scene from 1924. The delivery man is dropping off blocks of ice to residents for use in their ice boxes, which predated modern refrigerators. The blocks were likely sourced from Lake Ontario or other suitable river or pond. I can... 

"Yonge and Shuter 1916". This painting is based on a Toronto archival picture from 1916. This is looking west on Shuter Street towards Yonge. The movie posters on the left include "The Eye of God" starring Tyrone Power. The Power in question, how... 

This is the old Ottawa Auditorium, which sat at the corner of Argyle and O'Connor streets from 1923 to 1967. It was the home arena of the original Ottawa Senators. Hockey legend Howie Morenz scored his first NHL goal in this building, which could s...