Born Birrell Josef Mendelson in Toronto, Ontario, Mendelson Joe was a self-taught tour de force in multiple artistic disciplines including music, painting and writing.

Mendelson Joe painted each and every day until Parkinson’s Disease took away that facility in 2022. Along with making music, painting was Joe’s way of understanding the world and coping and celebrating human life and nature. Joe’s subjects include landscapes, portraits, and political and social commentary. Joe’s paintings are vivid, colourful, sometimes playful, sometimes scathing representations of the world according to Joe. Joe’s bold colour palette was much like the man himself – larger than life in impact. Unforgettable.

• Original Art | Mendelson Joe
• Surreal September 
• 24 x 36 inches
• 1991
• Text on back: "I was not on drugs, this is how it looked the morning of September 27th '98 south of Dwight on #35"