Robert B. Kell Canadian Artist Paintings and Drawings

My Name is Robert Kell  I created paintings and mixed medium about  the Winnipeg General Strike 1919.  The Canadian Museum of Civilization purchased one of my paintings in  2007 "Stony Mountain Group # 20 (Acrylic paint on canvas stretched on wooden frame 1982) which is now permanently displayed in their Canadian Labour History section. www.civilization.ca  Poster # 2
                                                              
I have long been interested in the struggles of the oppressed. I  chose the Winnipeg General Strike 1919 as a subject for its broader implications:"I wanted to use it as a starting point for a series of paintings that would in themselves produce a monument to the past, a sense of struggle.......not only the struggle that took place during those months in 1919 in Winnipeg, Manitoba but a sense of struggle that takes place within a person over any time any place."

My work is not meant to be a narrative detailing the 1919 Strike. That's not what I wanted.  What I did want is a focussing of the Strike energy, both as an event that happened,and as one that continues to inspire trade unionists and labour leaders today. It is art fulfilling its classic social role: to please through its beauty and to instruct through its content.     Robert Enright

My Posters

Displayed  on this page are two  posters of my work, these posters are available at $65.00 cad. each or both for $100.00  these will be signed by me.

Please contact me at:

kellrobpv@hotmail.com or

416-972-1277

7 Walmer Road Suite 1405

Toronto ON M5R 2W8