The slow economy, especially in Western Canada, is a factor for some corporate art sellers, but experts said a bigger influence is the trend toward open concept office design.

The Art Gallery of Alberta says the record-breaking sale of a Canadian painting last month is building quite a buzz around Canadian art and history just as the gallery gets set to unveil a new exhibit featuring some of the country's most celebrated landscape artists.

The Lawren Harris painting Mountain Forms has set a new Canadian art record selling for $11.2 million at auction in Toronto.