10 lost works of Canadian art you'll wish you could see

At one time, the art of Rita Letendre covered Toronto. In the 1970s and '80s, public art boomed alongside construction. But as the city continued to grow up, many of the trailblazing painter's murals came down. Roughly a dozen examples of Letendre's high-energy abstraction, once found in public spaces, have been demolished, removed or concealed .

Painted on the exterior wall of Toronto's Neill-Wycik building, the late Abenaki artist's first Canadian mural was also her largest. , from 1971, shows a cobalt blue streak speeding across a field of brilliant gold, green and orange. The work still stands today; however, it has been hidden.

Not even eight years after it was finished, the mural was obscured by a 25-storey high-rise built next door. Peering from the sidewalk into the small gap