It is on view at a gallery west of Toronto at the University of Guelph.
http://news.therecord.com/arts/article/258598 - whole article about other pieces.
Pertinent portion of article:
The importance of light in Danby's art is illustrated in the oil portrait of Gordon Lightfoot, who he befriended in Yorkville in the 1960s.
The portrait is backlit, which puts the white suit Lightfoot is wearing in heightened relief. It's notable for the prominence of Lightfoot's hands, which wrote the songs and played the guitars.
Danby gives his model a bemused, slightly askew smile, which bespeaks a modesty Lightfoot has never lost. Both Danby and Lightfoot retained their small-town values which found expression through their art.
Finally, there's something eerily prescient about the portrait. Although completed in 1988, it seems to anticipate Lightfoot's brush with death in 2002.
I know this sounds absurd. But to me this is a portrait of a man who has gone to edge of the abyss and backed away before it was too late.
I know this is revisionist in the extreme from the vantage point of hindsight.
But, this interpretation not only explains the evocative, halo-like backlighting behind Lightfoot's head, but the curious smile -- the smile of a man who has stared down death.