“In Tonalism, light appears subtly as the gleam of the moon reflected on the surface of a stream or distant building. Poetry is found most often in fugitive moments, these painters seem to say. Artists depict the land as a source of dreams, with weightless and vaguely silhouetted forms and luscious but muted colour, turquoise, mainly greyed… Archibald Browne’s… for instance, evokes a peaceful moonlit scene… ~ Joan Murray (Canadian Art in the 20th Century)
