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smith432 · Joined: 24 May 2012 Posts: 347

Canadian art market watchers over the last 27 years or so have consistently found evidence that the reputation of John Little has grown to be considered the premier Canadian urban painter still active today. His creative legacy is a body of work painted over a career now of almost 60 years. Although his painting places are primarily Quebec City and Montreal his message is very much a documentary and commentary relevant to the evolution of countless major cities throughout North America, that being the demolition of the inner city neighbourhoods and their resurrection committed almost exclusively to business. Little’s painterly tribute is a testimony to the original neighbourhoods where citizens lived virtually right downtown with the local grocery store at the corner, perhaps a place of worship not much further away than that, where community sports teams were often sponsored by the gas station a few blocks away. Then along with the dedication of downtown to business came a development of suburbs and an enormous construction of highways leading from the city core to them.

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John Little