With Bonsecours Market, Montreal (c. 1950), Rose Wiselberg (1902–1966) turned her eye to one of the city’s most beloved landmarks, the silver dome of the 19th-century market, a living heart within the fabric of Old Montreal.

Wiselberg’s Montreal training profoundly shaped her vision. She studied at the Art Association of Montreal School of Fine Arts, where her teachers included Maurice Cullen, a master of Canadian Impressionism, and Randolph Hewton, whose modernist sensibility carried forward the innovations of the Group of Seven and the Beaver Hall Group. Through them, she learned how to balance structure with light, discipline with emotion. Through her eyes, the Market becomes more than a landmark; it is a portrait of resilience, echoing her own path as one of Montreal’s pioneering Jewish women artists navigating a male-dominated art world.