Bertram Brooker: When We Awake!

The first comprehensive look at a leading figure in Canadian modernism and the many facets of his artistic creativity.

Bertram Brooker (1888–1955), an associate of the Group of Seven, was a multi-disciplinary artist who was deeply engaged with the visual, literary and performing arts in Canada during the dynamic inter-war period. This was a time of dramatic change in Canadian cultural life, and Brooker was one of the artistic community’s most gifted first responders.

In 1927 he burst onto th...