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Honouring Toller Cranston: Artist and International Skating Champion
Fifty-Five Plus – Lifestyle Magazine
Article by: Iris Winston
Legacy Beyond Medals
Why cultural impact, not podium finishes, is what actually lasts
By Phillippa, March 2026
What’s Good in Arnprior: Gallery Director initiates document to preserve Toller Cranston’s artistic legacy.
While January 25th marked an important local milestone in Phillippa Cranston Baran’s mission to popularize the life and career of her late brother, figure-skater and artist Toller Cranston- with the release of her second tome, the coffee-table size “Toller Cranston: Artistic Impressions”, there’s equally important but less visually appealing work going on behind the scenes to preserve the Cranston legacy.
Donna Child, Gallery Director with Toronto’s Donna Child Fine Art Gallery was in attendance at the Arnprior event at the O’Brien Theatre.
She’s a participant in Toller International, and, together with Cranston Baran, is keeping Toller’s legacy alive worldwide with specific events and functions- as well as crafting a dedicated work of her own- a collection index of the artist’s creations.
The Magic Realism of Toller Cranston
by Sally Hansen · December 2025 · The Humm Magazine
The spotlight is back on Canadian icon Toller Cranston, but this time it is brilliantly focused on Toller’s amazing, fiercely original “Magic Realism” art. This is the second time his older sister (and Arnprior resident) Phillippa Cranston Baran is committed to ensuring that “Canadians remember Toller as a creative genius, who worked like a demon, chased his destiny without fear, and continues to inspire others to dream big.”
Marshall Bay author Baran’s book shares art of brother Toller
By Jake Davies – West Carleton Online
Phillippa Cranston Baran shows off her first book on her brother Toller Cranston in 2024. Phillippa has a new book focusing on the artwork of Tolller Cranston with more than 400 images. She will talk about her new book at a free event Jan. 25 at the O’Brien Theatre seen in the background of the photo. Photo by Jake Davies
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What’s Good in Arnprior: As the Winter Olympics begin, the Spirit of Toller Cranston is there
The Milano-Cortina Winter Olympic competitions get underway today in Italy, and continue through February 22nd.
The event marks 50 years since skater Toller Cranston won his bronze medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics.
Toller’s sister, Phillippa Cranston Baran and other close to the late artist through “Toller International” are organizing a series of events to commemorate his legacy.
Orser, Browning preaching patience – Toronto Star on PressReader
Orser watched in awe as a child when the revolutionary Toller Cranston won an Olympic bronze in 1976, blazing a trail for other Canadians to follow.
No favourites in Milan, but Orser sees something brewing in Canadian singles skating – CBC
Brian Orser knows Canada’s odds of bringing home a singles figure skating medal from the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics are slim.
The 1987 world champion — and decorated coach — isn’t alarmed, because he believes better results are coming.
“When we’re in what looks like a lull, it’s because something is brewing and something is simmering,” Orser said. “Then all of a sudden it just comes to a boil, and everybody’s happy.”
“We just have to be patient.”
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What’s Good in the Valley? Valley ice skater is being celebrated 50 years after Olympic involvement
The Milano-Cortina Winter Olympic competitions is underway in Italy, and continues through February 22nd.
The event marks 50 years since skater Toller Cranston won his bronze medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics.
Toller’s sister, Phillippa Cranston Baran and other close to the late artist through “Toller International” are organizing a series of events to commemorate his legacy.
Phillippa Cranston on Her Brother Toller:
Toronto Mike’d Podcast Episode 1811
In this 1811th episode of Toronto Mike’d, Mike chats with Phillippa Cranston about her facinating life and extraordinary brother Toller Cranston who was a figure skating champion and prolific artist. This episode is exactly 1:17:42.
Toller 50
2026 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Toller’s Olympic medal.
Stay tuned for details of Toller 50 events.
The Toller Cranston Chasing Destiny Award
“For the artist who dares to live as boldly as they create.”
Toller International is delighted to announce The Toller Cranston Chasing Destiny Award in conjunction with theOntario Society of Artists.The award honours the spirit of Toller Cranston, an artist whose life was a canvas of fearlessness, colour, movement, and truth. He lived and created without apology, and he painted as he skated with passion and daring. The winner will receive:
- A cash prize of $500
- An online exhibition on the Toller International website, promoted across all digital outreach programs and platforms
- A copy of Toller Cranston, Artistic Impressions and Toller Cranston: Ice, Paint, Passion, personally dedicated by Phillippa Cranston Baran, author and founder of Toller International.
Toller Cranston: Resister, Artist, True Canadian, Charlie Angus substack.
Be sure to read the comments. https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/toller-cranston-resister-artist-true
Chapter on Phillippa in Reinvention: Meaningful Ventures in Later Life by Ron Baecker, Amazon, 2025
2025 Toller Award Winner
Thirteen-year-old Quinn Startek is a Toller award winner, member of Skate Canada NextGen Team, and a finalist for the Sports Illustrated Youth Athlete of the Year.
Toller and Tollermania at the Muskoka Chautauqua Festival
Happy to attend the Muskoka Chautauqua Festival in August where we met the amazing Ukrainian-Canadian artist, Natalia Laluq. Check out her absolutely brilliant Tollermania at https://vimeo.com/824904419, an extraordinary hand-crafted stop-motion project inspired by Toller’s life and work.
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Toller International Press Release – June 2025
Arts and Letters, Toronto, April 2025
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