The Development of Fine Art in Maritime Canada

There was a full blown culture with supporting arts in what is now Maritime Canada long before the white man attempted first settlement in 1604.  The art of the Passamaquoddies, Micmaq and Maliseets was largely figurative but abstract,  and now exists in comparatively few artifacts and  as petroglyphs on rock faces in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The fine arts of white people came with them to the New World and the first drawings and paintings executed here were hardly distinguishable from their  European models.  This state continued for a very long time,  as the development of local art schools was slow,  and most intending North American painters were educated in Europe. When change came it seeped into Canada from the United States of America