Jawbone Corner: Watercolours of Henry M. Rosenberg is an exhibition featuring fifteen of Rosenberg’s watercolours from the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia’s Permanent Collection. The works in this exhibition illustrate the urban and rural landscapes of Nova Scotia that Rosenberg experienced while living in Halifax where he spent thirty-seven years as a painter, printmaker and educator, years when many Nova Scotian’s were experiencing economic distress and devastation during wartime. Known widely for his etchings, illustrations and oil paintings, his watercolours bridge tonalism with impressionism, a variation in his painting style that ran parallel alongside shifting global movements of fine art and world politics.
Featured in this exhibition are several recent donations of Rosenberg’s watercolour paintings that depict scenes of the Canard area near Nova Scotia’s Minas Basin, as well as rare scenes of Halifax Harbour leading up to and during the First World War.
Image: Henry M. Rosenberg, Taylors, c 1931. The John and Norma Oyler Collection. Gift of John and Norma Oyler, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2023.
