Cobalt Art Gallery offers a expansive collection of artworks ranging from the eighteenth century to present times. Of detail notation are holdings of works past historic artists such as Paul Healey, Gerard Collins, Garfield Saunders, and Paul Vanier Beaulieu. We are ever adding new artists and works to the website as we photograph and document our enormous collection. Pottery, Persian rugs and drinking glass works tin be plant on the " Collections " page,including our Deichmann collection.
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1964-, Toronto, ON (Lives in Rothesay, NB)
Local creative person Paul Healey'south trademark paintings are low-cal filled interiors, ambient landscapes and sultry provocative figure studies painted in exquisitely subtle tonalities. His paintings invite the viewer into a world of repose and quiet, far from the humming dynamics of modernistic life. Critics have described his work as reminiscent of a younger more contemporary Joseph Plaskett.
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1952-, Hall's Harbour, NS (Lives betwixt Saint John, NB and Maine, USA)
A native of Nova Scotia, Neville was born in Halls Harbour, on the Bay of Fundy, to a family of gunkhole builders and fishermen where hard work was taken for granted. He grew up fishing with his begetter, building boats, and listening to the tales of men and women in the local villages. There were stories about bootlegging, bad luck, tape catches, rivalries, and drunken husbands—all of which became the footing for his rich pictorial linguistic communication.
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1957-, Saint John, NB
Gerard (Gerry) Collins' work is bright, sometimes impressionistic and ofttimes composed with characteristically wild strokes that his collectors have come to love. His paintings ofttimes come from scenes around his abode, including florals. Collins' work features both vibrant colous of paint, uniquely dark pastels and, occassionally, unique bailiwick matter. A unique note about this artist is that he often paints cats into his paintings and is a great true cat lover himself.
Majestic Canadian Academy of Arts Member
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1940-, Holland
Alexis Arts immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1955. His male parent was a well-known painter in kingdom of the netherlands, and it was under his father`s guidance that he began to paint. He studied Fine Arts in Montreal. Over the years, the creative person has traveled widely throughout Quebec, familiarizing himself with the countryside and deepening his agreement of the province. He loves to pigment anything that is close to nature and he has a very poetic vision of his environment.
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1920-2014, Molly Lamb Bobak was a Canadian teacher, writer, printmaker and painter working in oils and watercolours. Molly is best described as a painter of modern life. Her favourite subjects were vibrant crowd scenes, domestic interiors, and fresh flowers. Born into an unusual but stimulating cultured family unit, she trained at the Vancouver School of Art and, in 1945, became the just woman to be appointed every bit an official Canadian war artist. Later on that yr she married fellow painter Bruno Bobak and, in 1961, the couple settled in Fredericton. A professional artist and instructor, she occupies a secure position equally a pop painter with works in major collections beyond Canada.
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1910-1990, Calgary, AB (Lived in Montreal, QC)
"Each individual is alone, cut off. Each wonders how others cope with life. A work of fine art is a particularly circuitous statement, valuable because packed with pregnant... Like icebergs, four-fifths of our personalities lie below the surface; of the fifth that shows, only part tin be expressed in conversation. The merely effective outlet for all deeper feelings and thoughts is art."
(Philip Surrey, c. 1949)
Philip Surrey, a founding member of the Contemporary Arts Club, was a figurative painter with an indelible interest in human being subjects within urban nightscapes.
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Glenn Priestley attended the Vocational Arts Program at Cedarbrae Collegiate Plant in Scarborough, Ontario.
He is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art Fine Arts Programme, where he studied in Florence. Glenn's understanding of the effigy was farther enhanced through study of Anatomy at the Academy of Toronto. He has taught at numerous institutions including the Ontario College of Art.
In 1996 he left Ontario and moved with his family to Fredericton, New Brunswick.
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1887 - 1956
Wallace R. MacAskill is i of Nova Scotia's best-known photographers, valued especially for his seascapes and images of sailing vessels.
During WW 2, MacAskill's images became coveted past homesick Nova Scotians abroad and were very popular wedding presents.20 This popularity probably grew out of a world in flux - people began to thirst for the homey and familiar security of the by as captured on MacAskill's film. The age of canvas, Cape Breton hills and dales, picturesque fishing villages, canoeing on the Due north Westward Arm - all were cherished past displaced Nova Scotians in Canada and abroad.
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1935- , St. John's, NL
Pratt has received many awards and honours. He became an Acquaintance of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and a fellow member of the Canadian Club of Graphic Art. Pratt was also named an Officer of the Order of Canada and in 1983 he became a Companion of the Gild.
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1927-2006, Saint John, NB
Olive became a total time artist in the 1980's and produced many popular works of art for friends, family and collectors world wide.
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John Hammond was a Canadian oil painter, teacher and printmaker born April 11th 1843 in Montreal.
At a very young age, Hammond was recruited by his father to work equally a marble cutter. By the time he was barely a swain, he had joined a local militia and, by 1860, he had gone to seek fortune in New Zealand. That experience would marker the showtime of many peregrinations all over the planet that would exist the hallmark of John Hammond's life giving his fine art a sense of grandeur and adventure reflected in his landscapes, seascapes and other depictions of life and nature.
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Jamie MacDonald is a graduate of Queen's University, B.A. (Hons.) and B.Ed., and a resident of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He paints landscapes and illustrations, but as well enjoys the occasional portrait. His goal is to reveal the unique story of each place person, and to tell that story as best he can.
Jamie finds time to paint while acting as a fencing coach, pursuing guitar and piloting, practicing the craft of writing, and working full-fourth dimension equally a inferior/intermediate teacher of art and history.
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Currently resides on Deer Island, W Isles, New Brunswick.
Jerome has been a painter, illustrator, and graphic designer since 1978. His work has ranged from land and seascapes to surrealistic fantasies and impressionistic watercolours and drawings. His art is represented in many American and Canadian corporate and private collections.
Member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour.
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Canadian artist.
"If, after the first hours or days in a painting, I am successful in capturing the thing I saw or felt, I am amazed, and give thanks Providence for the gift of the power to do this. I tell you, this is great work if you can get information technology, but I could use two lifetimes to paint all the things I desire to pigment."
- Jackson Ehrlich
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1909-1980
Aldwinckle was a designer, illustrator and well known war artist. In World War II he registered equally a conscientious objector, and created several well-known state of war posters, so became a camouflage designer. He visited the Soviet Spousal relationship every bit function of the outset Canadian cultural substitution of the Common cold State of war. He was a student of comparative religion, an accomplished chef, raconteur, composer, playwright, writer, and social critic.
Canadian War Creative person, Imperial Canadian University of Arts Member
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A French-Canadian artist stationed in Québec whose art focuses mostly on quaint state beauty.
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1953-
A Canadian contemporary-realist living in New Brunswick, Canada.
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Berthe des Clayes (1877 –1968) was a Scottish-born artist who lived in England and Canada. She was born in Aberdeen and studied at the Bushey Schoolhouse of Art with H.Herkomer and at the Académie Julian in Paris with Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules Lefebvre.
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Saint John, New Brunswick (1928-2009)
A graduate of Teachers College in Fredericton, she taught in several Saint John schools. A life-long artist and supporter of fine arts, she served on the board of the Saint John Arts Council and was a member of the Saint John Women'southward Symphony Committee.
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Born 1949-
Married man of artist Ruth Coleman. Acrylics painting, oil painting, cityscapes, landscapes, seascapes of Atlantic Canada
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Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada in 1950 -- of Lithuanian beginnings.
Herzl Kashetsky'south piece of work in the early 1980s tended to reverberate subjects common to the magic realist school, especially even so life, focusing on every day objects with an intensity that inevitably invests them with new and deeper meaning... In 1997 he received the New Brunswick Reddish Cross Humanitarian Award, and a best film honour at the 53rd almanac exhibition of the Canadian Club of Painters in Watercolour.
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Leighton studied at the Brighton School of Fine art and the Slade School before perfecting her preferred medium, wood engraving, at U.k.'s Central School of Arts and Crafts. She favored depictions of rural and working form activities. In the 1920's Leighton traveled across Europe and to America where she ultimately settled.
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Born 1964, Robert studied Fine Art at Sunderland University and is currently living and working in Northumberland, England.
"I depict my work as 'Painting Nature', as a direct response to my immediate surround, exploring colour, composition and expression yet maintaining the very traditions of painting. Making sketches equally well my own visual notes I paint intuitively and expressively with bold sweeping brushstrokes that sum up whole passages of the landscape that is before me. Painting on location and in the studio, I often rework paintings intuitively to produce a completed work."
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Cornelius is an artist from the woody wilderness of New Brunswick, Canada who lives an well-nigh "stereotypical Canadian" lifestyle. In his cabin in the woods, where he resides twelvemonth-circular, by and large off the country. He comes into the gallery to deliver his work personally and always has a big bushy beard and a great big friendly smile.
Cornelius's art is a fun and, usually, iconically Canadian.
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1874 - 1941
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he studied drawing and painting under William Brymner, Maurice Cullen and Edmond Dyonnet at the school of the Art Association of Montreal. He worked 11 years in the stained glass industry making drawings for ornaments and figures and then for La Presse and the Montreal Star doing pen and ink drawings. He was a designer and illustrator for magazines but eventually turned to full time painting particularly of old buildings and ancient areas of Montreal and Quebec Metropolis
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Brian Kelley was built-in in Fairfax, Virginia, The states. He has an MFA in Painting from Indiana Academy and a BA from the College of William and Mary. He has exhibited nationally and lectured at several schools, including George Washington University, the Higher of William and Mary, George Mason University, Anne Arundel Customs College, Prince George's Community College, Northern Virginia Customs College, and the Washington Studio School.
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Canadian creative person built-in in Barbados during his parent's stay in their summer home.William Goodridge Roberts was a Canadian painter known for his mural paintings and unassuming still lifes and interiors. Goodridge Roberts was the son of poet and novelist Theodore Goodridge Roberts and Frances Seymour Allen.
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Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American writer, painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad pop appeal in the United states of america for their reflection of American culture.
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Gaston Rebry is a Quebec painter of Belgian birth.
Built-in on Oct 30 1933 in Wevelgem in Kingdom of belgium he died in Shawinigan on January 5th 2007. He was the son of Belgian bicycle racer Gaston Rebry (1909-1953) and was also a bike racer in the 1950s in Europe.
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French-Canadian. Built-in 1938, Québec, Canada.
Leaving a successful business organisation life in commercial fine art and advertizing behind him, he boarded a airplane for Western Canada, bringing with him 20 pastel paintings, all done on location in Québec.
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Catharine McAvity (1915-1999) was a prolific and well established creative person based in New Brunswick, Canada. She studied with many important artists including Jack Humphrey, Miller Brittain, Tony Onley, Christopher Pratt, Ken Louhhead, Ron Bloor amidst others.
Her work has been exhibited widely in the Maritimes and featured in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada. Her work is institute in many museums and galleries equally well as prominent collections (add together link). The University of New Brunswick honoured her by naming a lecture room later her at the Saint John campus.
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Born 1933 in Saint-Michel-de-Wentworth, Québec, Canada, Lecor is a singer, comedian painter and folk painter (mail service-1978).
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Built-in 1887, died in Montréal, Québec, Canada 1980.
Total fellow member of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1944.
Adam Sherriff Scott was built-in in Perth, Scotland and began his art education in 1903 at the Edinburgh School of Art. He was awarded the Allen-Fraser Scholarship to go along his studies for iv years at the Allen-Fraser institute, which was a finishing school for talented young artists, and studied under George Harcourt A.R.A. He was ane of only ten artists who qualified for the scholarship.
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1929-, Manila, Phillippines (Lives in Vancouver, BC)
One of Canada'south well-nigh historic artists, Trinidad has built an international reputation as far reaching as the sources of his inspiration. He studied and painted extensively in France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and England.
Trinidad currently resides in Vancouver which provides the platonic surround for his oil paintings which are entrenched with blithesome colours, vibrant flowers and the uncanny play of sunlight and shadow. Although poetic at center, José approaches his art with the seriousness of a disciplined craftsman with painstaking care and details.
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Fortin worked equally a graphic creative person with the federal Department of Energy, Mines and Resource and taught fine art briefly at the University of Ottawa. His work, originally non-figurative, gradually evolved into a naïve folk fine art mode heavily influenced past his rural surround. After deciding to do art full time he would teach independently around Ottawa as well as tour Europe studying techniques and selling his art.
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Michael'south fine art is characterized past masterful drawing, and an unusual sensitivity to the subtleties of detail, form, colour, and limerick. Wildlife Art mag founder, Robert J. Koenke acknowledges both the uniqueness and international recognition of Dumas' fine art when he says, ' I tin recognize a Michael Dumas piece of work from across a room, or pick it out from among a crowd of other artists.
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"I realized that a move to Greatcoat Cod Massachusetts from Boston, would be more beneficial to my art, as I could explore the seaside and absorb the landscape for my painting."
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1899 - 1987
Raphael Soyer (December 25, 1899 – Nov 4, 1987) was a Russian-born American painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Soyer was referred to as an American scene painter. He is identified as a Social Realist considering of his involvement in men and women viewed in contemporary settings which included the streets, subways, salons and artists' studios of New York Metropolis. He also wrote several books on his life and art.
His brothers Moses Soyer and Isaac Soyer were also painters.
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Pierre Lefebvre paints portraits, interior scenes and notwithstanding lifes. In his portraits, there is a subtle reference to the artist himself; these individuals are very distinguished and reserved. His compositions are structured, often geometric and always engaging.
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1882 - 1953
For David Milne, painter, printmaker, and writer, the process of fine art and non the content was paramount. His austere work and his pure artful depended on the formulation and solution of certain formal, creative problems and the consistent evolution and concentration of his inner self. In simple terms, Milne sought to reduce a painting to its essentials.
Milne was strongly influenced by both American and French Impressionism, especially the work of Claude Monet and by Henri Matisse. Milne integrated these influences into his own special way of seeing and painting. He painted the simplest subjects - houses, barns, flowers, trees and still lifes - merely it was the landscape that dominated much of his production.
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Jewish Smooth-Canadian, built-in in Montréal, Quebec, 1936.
Fellow member of the Royal Canadian Academy
Printmaker David Silverberg has been concerned with a variety of subjects, in particular nature, erotica, scenes from the many countries he visited and Jewish themes, as in his illustrations for The Vocal of Songs and The Psalms of David (1967). In an interview with Nancy Bauer in 1980, the creative person describes how Judaism by and large affects his art, for every bit a Jewish homo he is constantly preoccupied with the commandment, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." He enjoys the resistance of metal in the engraving process maybe because it reflects the tension between the artist and this ancient belief.
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Scottish. 1850-1916
Many of Black'southward paintings are of fishing scenes and shorelines in Scotland, capturing the feeling of the cold skies and wet weather beautifully.
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F. B. Taylor was a Canadian creative person, born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1906 and died in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (by suicide ) in 1987, where he had been trying his had at silk screen painting and scultping.
due east was built-in in Ottawa and more often than not raised there; living briefly in London, England from 1916 to 1918 after his male parent was transferred there during the First Globe War. Upon returning to Ottawa, he graduated from Lisgar Collegiate in 1918. He became a pupil of McGill University in 1925 after his parents asserted that he must complete university before embarking on whatsoever sort of artistic career.
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(1908-1982)
Albert Rousseau was born in Sainte-Étienne-de-Lauzon, Quebec in 1908. He is often associated with of import Quebec landscape painters René Richard and Léo Ayotte; although Rousseau experimented with many genres of painting, including portraiture and gestural painting, he found landscapes and images of quaint neighbourhoods most intriguing to pigment.
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1923 - 2001
Born in Toronto. Every bit a teenager he attended classes at the Children'south Art Eye of the Art Gallery of Ontario, where he was encouraged by such artists equally Arthur Lismer, Erma Sutcliffe, Dorothy Medhurst, and A. Y. Jackson. He later studied at the Académie Julian.
Appointed an official war artist in 1944. Joined the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1958. Made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1979.
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1940 - 2010
Bruno Côté was born in Quebec Urban center in August 1940. His youth in a family where fine art held a stiff significance encouraged the development of his artistic talents.
In 2008 the Canadian Parliament gave Côté'south painting, The Portage Trail to the Parliament of Scotland to mark the opening of the Scottish Parliament Building.[three]
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James Wilson has been an artist working in the medium of photography for more than than 30 years. James works from his heritage home and natural low-cal studio in the beautiful Kennebecasis River Valley near Hampton New Brunswick, Canada. He uses large format cameras mostly, making images of the land or to document people in great detail. James's new work involves digital photography, merging image layers and textures to create new images that claiming your emotions.
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Canadian, active. Lives in St. Andrews and New Hampshire, Maine.
John Amos studied Fine Fine art in New Brunswick at Mount Allison University, from 1970 to 1974, where he embraced the watercolour medium for which he is then highly regarded.
Born in Dorchester, New Brunswick, John grew up watching the coastal waters of the Bay of Fundy, where the tides rise and fall twenty-eight feet twice a twenty-four hour period. These e'er changing surroundings provided his affinity for depicting New Brunswick's evolving shoreline.
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Dusan Kadlec is a Czech-Canadian painter, born in Prague (1942), Czechoslovakia and studied art at the University of Fine Arts in Prague.
Soon after the success of the Worlds Fair pavilion, political unrest began to bear on life in Czechoslovakia. When the Soviet Matrimony invaded during the Prague Spring revolution of 1968, Kadlec fled his homeland and immigrated to Canada, settling in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He immediately began to look for work equally an creative person, and inside two weeks secured his beginning commission - a portrait. He establish the historic charm of his newly adopted port city inspirational and began at that fourth dimension what would afterward become the focus of his life'south piece of work. Re-creating maritime history on canvas.
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Julius Griffith was born in Vancouver, BC in 1912, later moving to England with his family where he studied art. His studies were interrupted by the outbreak of WWII. During the war he worked with the "Air-raid Precautions" for a time and eventually joined the Red Cross. In 1941-42 he worked in a country-business firm hospital in Sussex. While there, he taught art and learned Russian. He joined the Royal Navy as an interpreter under the rank of Sub-Lieutenant. From 1942 till the terminate of the war Griffith was stationed in Murmansk and Archangel.
Griffith passed abroad in 1997.
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Born 1937.
Hungarian-Canadian Julius Damasday lives in Canada and Republic of hungary. Julius Damasday is known for his sculptures and paintings.
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Elizabeth Marjorie Smith was built-in on [April] seven, 1898 at Iden, near Rye, Sussex, England, the daughter of Edwin James Smith and Beatrice Neeves. In 1901, the family, including four boys and three girls, moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick. Smith graduated from Fredericton High School in 1917. It was during this fourth dimension that Smith became interested in photography. She began taking snapshots with a box camera and a vest pocket camera. Smith went to work at Harvey Studios and remained there until 1930. Finally, in 1936, she became proprietress of her own shop at 518 Queen Street. She sold hand-coloured photographs and she likewise introduced Deichmann pottery to her customers.
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René Richard (ane December 1895 – 31 March 1982) was Swiss-born Canadian painter known for his semi-abstruse landscapes of the Canadian wilderness and of the country effectually Baie-Saint-Paul in Quebec.
Dissimilar other Canadian landscapes, Richard's pictures oftentimes included trappers, hunters and the Inuit and First Nations people who lived in the north country, with their homes and sled dogs. Richard'southward landscapes became highly valued past collectors. When Queen Elizabeth 2 visited Canada in 1959 she was given i of Richard's paintings by the mayor of Chicoutimi.
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Ronald Jackson was long recognized for his masterful depiction'south of British Columbia's magnificent coastal region. In his themes, his flowing quality of line and his subtle use of colour, one can see that Ronald Jackson was deeply involved in interpreting the power of the Canadian Mural - a Canadian tradition he shared with such eminent painters as Lauren Harris, A.Y. Jackson and Emily Carr. One of the things Ronald prided himself on was that he never had a complaint about any of his marine paintings from a sailor or anyone who knows anything virtually boats - and some sailors roar with laughter at some marine paintings.
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1790-1851, British.
This artist is known for his works on copper panels with oil. Not to exist confused with William Moor Jr., his son.
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1909-1976, Canadian
Built-in in Sainte-Flore, Mauricie, Quebec to a family of modest means, he began his studies at the College Séraphique and at Trois-Rivières Seminary, and finally, in Nicolet. He abandoned his studies at the end of his rhetoric and began to compose poems and paint.
In 1938, Ayotte moved to Montreal and worked as a model at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Not being registered, Ayotte could not follow the lessons, only his piece of work in that location as a model and as a janitor allowed him to listen in on classes. Without money, he also picked upwardly the half-empty tubes left by careless students and used them to paint. The director Maillard told him later afterwards he saw one of his paintings: "You are my all-time student."
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1917-2002
Bruce Heggtveit was born in Maidstone, Saskatchewan 1917. In 1938 at the age of 31 he became a Canadian National Ski Champion. Later on Bruce began education painting in Ottawa, Ontario. He taught many of Canada's all-time landscape artists and many recognize him as being the reason for their success. In the 1970'south he turned down lucrative skiing contracts to keep up with need for his art. He passed away in 2002.
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David Moore is one of Australia'due south foremost painters. Moore was a recipient of the A.M.Eastward Bale Residental Scholarship and the Norman Kaye award. He currently lives and teaches painting in Melbourne.
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Angel Gómez was built-in in Carbonero el Mayor (Segovia) Kingdom of spain in 1942.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Gómez's canvases were filled with familiar images of slate roofs over centuries-old stone buildings with stone-carved archways and wrought iron railings, narrow cobbled streetscapes in sunday-dipped colors of gold, blue and imperial. Rich, bold brush strokes created vibrant "paisajes" (landscapes) of Spanish countrysides.
However, since Gómez's arrival in Canada in 1980, and as one vastly influenced by his surroundings, he has sought to reconcile his Spanish roots with the feeling of isolation he has experienced since moving to Fredericton, New Brunswick, and to draw these experiences in paint.
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In 1953 Cosgrove received a Canadian government fellowship to continue his studies in French republic where he fostered an early involvement in the piece of work of the French painters Braque and Rouault. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s Cosgrove was involved in other pursuits besides his painting.
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b.1906-1971, Glace Bay, NS
Lawley graduated from Mountain Allison University then McGill University in Montreal. He pursued his involvement in painting as a student of Agnes Lefort in Montreal and Aldro Hibbard of the American National Academy.
John'due south paintings are represented in numerous private and corporate collections throughout Canada.
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Beth Powning (Putnam, Connecticut, U.s.a.. 1949) lives in New Brunswick, Canada and is both an author and photographer. Her latest bestselling novel, A Measure of Light, was called past the Earth and Mail service "shatteringly exquisite…extraordinary…visceral and intense."
Powning majored in creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She moved to an one-time farm near Sussex, New Brunswick in 1972, where she ran a pottery business with her husband, artist and photographer Peter Powning.
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1941-, Hamilton, ON (Lives in St. Andrews, NB)
Michener enrolled at the Ontario College of Art in 1964. After graduating he took on freelance work for diverse advertising agencies and publications including T.V. Guide, The Financial Times and the Toronto Star. He has studied under numerous artists including some members of the group of seven. Michener has been the recipient of many awards throughout his career and continues to produce new work. He now owns and manages The Gables Restaurant (and Gallery) in St. Andrews, NB.
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1927–1999, Hamilton. Ontario, Canada.
McElcheran was a Canadian designer and sculptor and created the Royal Armed forces College Club of Canada's centennial souvenir, Truth Duty Valour, in 1976. The miniature statues are now known every bit 'Brucie.' McElcheran was commissioned to sculpt statues across Canada (mostly in Toronto) at universities,public and federal-endemic buildings. His works are considered valueable collectors pieces.
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1884-1963. An English-born Canadian painter and printmaker. He is credited with popularizing the colour woodcut in the way of the Japanese, in Canada.
Phillips lived in Manitoba for 28 years, and died in British Columbia; his ashes were spread in the Rocky Mountains.
Member of the Purple Canadian Academy of Arts.
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English painter Thomas Malton "the younger" (1748-1804) is son of equally-famous Thomas Malton "the older". This highly acclaimed creative person is famous for his watercolour and ink works, mostly of notable churches, landmarks and government buildings. His works can be found in several notable museums in London.
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"You've got this lovely canvas and in that location'south cypher like putting on this beautiful washy line and watching it spread, and the joy and excitement. …it's similar the joy of youth: and then you look at information technology and attempt to rationalize and bring it together."
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John Wood Beckwith Maxwell was born in Fredericton where the fledgling UNB Art Centre loomed influentially in his introduction to art as a child and after creative evolution. Lucy Jarvis, Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Fritz Brandtner and Madge Smith were among his early teachers and mentors. He also absorbed the presence and impact of Goodridge Roberts in his formative years and later that of Molly Lamb Bobak. He studied literature at the Academy of New Brunswick . A Canada Quango grant in 1959 funded a trip to Paris, where he studied at the Academie Julienne and at La Grande Chaumière. He would so return to Fredericton.
Maxwell emphasized that being in or out of current fashion was irrelevant to his painterly concerns. What mattered, ultimately, was to make art that resonated with "truth" and thus have lasting value.
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Born in 1896. / Died in 1965
Nicholas Hornyansky was born in Budapest in 1896, studied fine art in Budapest at the Academy of Fine Arts, at the Munich plein-air school, in Amsterdam under Professor Mendlik, and likewise studied landscape painting in Belgium in the school of Franz Hens, then immigrated to Canada arriving x Baronial 1929; he became a Canadian denizen in 1934. He was based in Toronto (55, Huntley Street, etc., etc.), simply traveled extensively from coast to declension. He became a member of the Society of Canadian Painters, Etchers and Engravers (elected 29 November 1929), the Ontario Society of Artists, the Canadian Social club of Graphic Art, and Associate of the Royal Canadian University.
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(1886-1967)
Aliases: Lila Caroline Taylor
Canadian. Known for her marine and floral paintings.
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Built-in in Upper Melbourne, Quebec in 1871/d. there 1960.
Frederick Simpson Coburn was an illustrator, a painter and a print maker. In 1887–1888, Frederick Simpson Coburn RCA studied at the Conseil des arts et manufactures in Montreal and went to the Carl Hecker School of Art in New York City. The following year, he went to Frg, where he enrolled at the Berlin Academy. In 1892, he was to be found in Paris taking courses at the École des Beaux-Arts in Gérôme'southward studio. In the years that followed, Coburn studied in London, in Belgium and travelled a bully deal in Europe. While away, he non but mastered a variety of art techniques, he also became fluent in the French, German, Dutch and Flemish languages. His frequent trips back abode enabled him to maintain a close connection with Quebec. It was in Antwerp that he met his future married woman, the talented Belgian creative person, Malvina Scheepers. Together, they established a studio-home in Coburn'south hamlet of Upper Melbourne and a pied-à-terre in Montreal.His drawings appeared regularly in American magazines, and he illustrated many works by American, English and Canadian authors for G.P. Putman Publishing of New York. In the 1910s, he quickly developed a reputation for his winter landscapes, and his level of success was unprecedented for a Canadian creative person, at the time.
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RJ Hider was a British artist from the early on 20th century who painted winter scenes and war propoganda posters, such as that used to sell war bonds.
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Levente Kovács (1922-1992) was a painter who lived in Canada between 1957 to 1985 and moved to French republic to stay until his death in February 1992. Levente Kovacs has produced paintings of all kind in Hungary, Italy, Germany, Canada and France. These paintings represent portraits, landscapes or still lifes
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Born Narajow, Galacia in 1904. Died Montréal, QE, Canada in 2001.
With an acute centre for character and a profound humanity, Montreal draughtsman and painter Louis Muhlstock created a portrait of the Depression in gentle, intimate drawings of marginalized people. His paintings of deserted streets and houses, done before and later the Second World State of war, are spare images that convey silence and retentiveness.
Among Muhlstock's many national and international exhibitions was a solo prove held in 1949 at the National Gallery of Canada, which travelled to several venues. Muhlstock was a member of the Canadian Guild of Graphic Artists, Canadian Group of Painters, Contemporary Arts Society, Federation of Canadian Artists and Canadian Guild of Painters in Water Colour. He held an honorary doctorate from Concordia University (1978) and was an Officer of the Order of Canada (1991) and Chevalier de l'ordre du Québec (1998).
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B. 1947 (Quebec)
Gaëtan Hovington is a talented sculptor from Tadousac, Quebec who studied under the Canadian Principal carver, Jean-Julien Bourgault. Gaëëtan is known for his carved wooden scenes of early Canadian days and nowadays day rural scenes as well as for his uniquely carved statuetteaééé of rural east coast genre.
Gaëtan merely sculpts works to commisions and makes his living entirely from his artistry, and as such, his sculpted figures and scenes are rarely found for auction in whatever fine art galleries.
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Cocky-taught Eduardo Vincente Pérez (1909 - 1968), younger blood brother of painter Hispanic-American Esteban Vicente, was Spanish painter and lithographer. After the Spanish Civil War, he participated in the exhibitions and shows organized past the Cursory Academy of Fine art Criticism . In 1932 Vincente was somewhen being selected as ane of the artists to be commissioned to make reproductions of the Black Paintings of Goya. There are reports of an unknown disagreements with the painters involved in the traveling museum, which led him to resign from and abandon the project.
Since 1957, the emergence of the group " El Paso", the informalismo, the "Arte Otro" and pop art, his painting fell out of fashion with the forgotten grouping. In the spring of 1968, In Madrid, when a piece of his work was to be shown at the Quixote Gallery, friends, broken-hearted having not seen him for several days, establish his trunk in a corner of his studio where he apparently had been dead for three days (causes unknown).
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Greek Canadian, born 1926.
Paul (Paleologos) Soulikias was born in Komotini, Hellenic republic in 1926, and raised in Volos. After the hardships of the German Occupation and the Greek Civil State of war, he spent time studying art in Athens and in Paris and ultimately settled in Montreal in 1959. In 2004, he was honoured by the Olympic Urban center of Nea Ionia with an exhibition as part of the cultural events of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.
Souliakias's art has ever had popularity, though the geography would change. Souliakias' most recent exhibition was in 2008, though he has had ii honourary exhibitions, the most recent in 2016.
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b.1923 Wawelowska, Poland - d.2012, Saint John, NB
Brunislaw Jacob Bobak studied in Ontario at Central Technical School and the Art Gallery of Toronto under Arthur Lismer. Joining the Canadian Regular army following loftier school, he was the youngest official war creative person during WW2. Afterward, Bobak taught at the Vancouver Schoolhouse of Fine art. In 1960 he moved to New Brunswick and became artist in residence at the University of New Brunswick. He served as Managing director of the UNB'due south Art Centre until 1986.
Order of Canada Member
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1925-, Poland (Lives in Montreal, QC)
Rita Briansky is an award-winning painter, printmaker, etcher and teacher, who studied at the Montreal Schoolhouse of Fine Arts and New York'southward Arts Student League.
Her work is included in the permanent collections of the National Gallery in Ottawa, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
She often uses landscape, portraiture and still lifes as a passionate response to the world around her, speaking fundamentally to the human being status.
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b.1900-1994, Edinburgh Scotland (Lived in Winnipeg and Ontario)
Charles Comfort was a Canadian painter, sculptor, teacher, writer and administrator. He worked as a commercial creative person for Brigdens Limited and taught at the Ontario College of Art and Design besides equally the University of Toronto,
Comfort served on the Board of Directors and diverse committees at the Art Gallery of Toronto, and was Manager of the National Gallery of Canada. He was also a fellow member of the Canadian Society of Graphic Fine art, Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, Canadian Group of Painters, and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
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Amongst the primeval craftspeople in Canada to set up a studio and to make a living by selling their work were Erica and Kjeld Deichmann. Although many potters since take become full-fledged professionals, the Deichmanns were the pathfinders. Their careers span a critical flow - from 1935 until Kjeld's death in 1963 - that represents a turning betoken in the history of crafts in Canada. It was the point at which the traditional crafts gave birth to the crafts as an creative attempt.
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Frederick Joseph Ross (1927-2014), born and died in Saint John, New Brunswick. In 1944, he began his art studies with Ted Campbell at the Saint John Vocational School, and then in 1949, studying in United mexican states, returning there once more a twelvemonth afterward, where he met artist Diego Riviéra. In 1970, he resigned from his position at the Saint John Vocational School and then that he could paint full-time.
In 1993 the Beaverbrook Art Gallery retrospective, The Art of Fred Ross - A Timeless Humanism, secured his reputation nationally. In 2002 he was made a Fellow member of the Guild of Canada.
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Ernst Lorenzen (1911-1990, born in Denmark).
Alma Lorenzen (1916-1998, born in Cocagne, NB).
Ernst and Alma Lorenzen started making pottery as a hobby in the mid-1940s when they lived in Dieppe, New Brunswick, but soon produced it on a commercial ground, and relied on this arts and crafts for their livelihood by the time they were established in Lantz, Nova Scotia, in 1950. Initially, the Lorenzens relied on commercial sources of clay and glaze ingredients when they began making pottery in the 1940s. With time the Lorenzens increasingly made use of local materials to make their pottery. The Lorenzens moved dorsum and along from NB and NS.
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Born 1941, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Chinese proper name: 曹惠文
now living in Pleasantville, Nova Scotia, Raymond Chow studied art at UBC and received his Bachelor of Ed. and his degree in Piano Performance. At historic period 12 he was winning art awards, at age xxx he owned iii art galleries, twelve antique automobiles and 3 grand pianos as well as started his 16mm documentary films.
Using his Chinese brushes, acrylics and sail, he painted his daughter in every location that he has traveled across Canada, California, Shanghai, England, Holland and France. Lisa was a regular subject area of his art.
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b. Victoria Island, BC, 1946.
Elsie was born on Victoria Island, and has been drawing since the early on 1960s. Her father, Victor Ekootak, was an creative person and inspired her to draw through his drawings, too every bit his stories. Elsie'south son, Stanley (Elongnak) Klengenberg is a graphic creative person and sculptor in Holman.
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b. Glasgow, Scotland, 1938. Currently living in Fort Langley, BC.
Alan Wylie is a remarkably versatile artist using diverse mediums and paints on a variety of subjects such as landscapes, figures and withal life. He is well known for his grand murals in public and individual institutions beyond North America and Europe.
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James A. Elliott is well known for his watercolors of the coast of his home state of Maine.
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1940-2007
Ken Danby was one of Canada's foremost artists; a painter and printmaker of international renown best known for his realist style.
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1917-2005, Montreal, QC
Jacques studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal in 1937 and the Contemporary Art Club of Montreal in 1942. He taught at the Université du Québec à Montréal, the University of British Columbia and Mountain Allison University. Amid his students were Claude Tousignant and Graham Coughtry.
His piece of work is in many public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Leonard & Bina Ellen Fine art Gallery, Concordia University, Carleton University Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Fine art Gallery of Hamilton, Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, Museum London among others.
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts member.
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Seeking information. Artist activity estimated between late-19th century to, at most recent, early-20th century. Perchance older.
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Chris Lloyd graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1999. Between 2001-2003 he was director of the Khyber Centre for the Arts in Halifax, NS. Since 2001 he has been writing (well-nigh) daily e-mail to the Prime Minister of Canada while trying to get the official Prime Minister portrait painter. In 2015 he ran as an Independent candidate in the 42nd Full general Election just lost desperately to Justin Trudeau. He nonetheless writes the Prime Minister, almost daily.
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1936-, Middleton, NS
Thomas DeVany Forrestall, C.Chiliad., O.North.S., B.F.A. LL.D., RCA attended Saturday morning fine art classes at the Nova Scotia College of Art in Halifax in the 1940s. In 1954, he was awarded a scholarship to the Fine Arts section at Mount Allison Academy, where he studied with Lawren P. Harris and Alex Colville.
He graduated in 1958 and received one of the first Canada Council grants for contained written report which provided him with the opportunity to travel throughout Europe. Upon his return he became assistant curator of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. He has been a freelance creative person since 1960.
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1923-2005
Caiserman-Roth was a Canadian artist built-in in Montréal, Québec. She was a founder of the Montreal Artist School and has work in the National Gallery of Canada. Caiserman Roth was also a member of the Royal Canadian Academy (RCA) and the first artist to receive the Governor Full general Honor.
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Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808 – 1879) was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in French republic in the 19th century.
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Walter Wenzel Pranke, (1925- )
Born in the former Czechoslovakia, Pranke studied at the Dresden Fine art Academy; with Scott in Utah (1945); and in Hanover and Dusseldorf, Germany (1947). He came to Montreal, Quebec in 1955, before settling in Ottawa, Ontario in 1981. Working in oil and ink, he paints Old Montreal and Old Quebec City besides as the Laurentian landscape especially in winter.
Biography courtesy of The Collector'southward Lexicon of Canadian Artists at Auction: Volume 3: M-R
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1865-1944
Born in Lanvéoc, Finistère, France in 1865, Georges Chavignaud watched Corot paint as a male child and after came under the influence of this artist. He arrived in Toronto in 1884 and became an art director for a Canadian publishing firm. He studied at the Académie royale des beaux-arts in Brussels in 1903, studied black and white in Paris and painting in Antwerp in 1904.
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Henri Leopold Masson (OSA, CGP, GSPWC) was built-in in Spy, Belgium in 1907. He came to Canada with his family in 1921, settling in Ottawa working as a silver engraver for several years. He painted during the evenings and weekends.
Largely self-taught, Masson combined his narrative abilities with a fluid Group of Vii way. He lived in Ottawa from 1921 and began exhibiting nationally in 1938 and internationally in 1946. His themes reflect his belief in the unity of nature and art.
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Henri D'anty was born on September 8th, 1910, in Bellevile(Paris), France. A painter of the "School of Paris," Henri D'Anty studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere and at the Academie Julian. Known for still lifes and landscapes, his piece of work can be constitute in the collection of the Musee D'Orsay.
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1946-, Canada (Lives in New Zealand)
Born in Canada in 1946, Wyatt studied painting at the Alberta College of Art and Hornsey Higher of Art. He has done collaborative research with Dr. Eric Brodie, of Glasgow Caledonian University, in drawing and perception.
His interest is in the natural conveyance of meaning in the pictorial arts as well as the interrelationship between the biological and the socially-constructed aspects of aesthetic knowledge that event both artist and spectator.
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1937-2009, Cincinnati, OH (Lived in Halifax, NS)
Gerald Ferguson was a highly influential conceptual artist who taught at the Nova Scotia Higher of Art and Design for over xl years. There he mentored generations of developing artists including our own Gerard Collins.
Ferguson was also a perceptive collector. He amassed a meaning and widely varied collection of folk art and the art of Nova Scotian painters from the first half of the twentieth century.
Molson Prize Recipient
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1921-1978, Toronto, ON
Merely as our local artist Gerard Collins, Alexander S. Millar studied at the St. Martin'south School of Fine Fine art, in London. He has received numerous awards and scholarships including the Lt. Governor General'south Medal, the Terry Art Establish International Award, a Department of Veterans Affairs scholarship to written report in Mexico and a scholarship to study at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel De Allende.
Millar taught at the Ontario College of Fine art, Queens University, in Kingston, The Doon School of Fine Fine art and the Mary and Roman Schneider School of Fine art.
Ontario Society of Artists and Canadian Group of Painters Fellow member.
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Remi Clark was built-in in Quebec City in 1944. He offset studied applied sciences at the Institute of Technology and so painted for several years before exhibiting.
Strongly inspired by our Quebec landscapes, he mainly paints scenes representing the family and the daily life. His work is total of luminosity and the happiness that emanates from it.
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Built-in in 1957, Antoine Bittar has been passionate with art since 1981 when he began total-time painting. His primary interest lies in the claiming of capturing and creating atmospheric impressions. In accordance with his aesthetic gustatory modality, the artist feels a truthful contentment with the enduring qualities of simplified-realism or impressionist styles adjusted to nowadays day subject thing.
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Born in Quebec City, Prevost studied town planning at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts Montreal (1949), and is self-taught in painting. He is influenced by Jean Paul Lemieux, and Benoit E. Working in oil and watercolour, his early on detailed paintings are characterized by tiny brushstrokes. He is however, best known for his somewhat surreal, simplified, faceless conical figures in winter settings. He established and administered the historic village of Jacques de Chambly (1960-1971). He turned to painting full-fourth dimension in 1971 and moved to Norton, New Brunswick in 1984. His silkscreen illustrations were published in "Mon Oncle Antoine" by Claude Jutra and "Septuor Maritime" past Gilles Vigneault
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John Ward was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1948. In 1965 he started his career at Republic of ireland'due south Ardmore Studios, working as a scenery artist during the filming of the First World War epic "The Blue Max". He went on to piece of work for the theatre in Dublin and for a number of commercial art studios before emigrating to Canada in 1969.
Upon arrival in Toronto he worked briefly every bit an illustrator, freelancing for well-nigh of Canada'due south major magazines, before quitting in 1974 to paint full-time. In 1975 he exhibited with The New York Illustrators Society.
In 1993 "Courage to Create", a documentary almost the evolution of his work, was broadcast in Canada on CBC Television. The moving-picture show outlines the transition from the "urban" subject field matter of the 1970'due south to his nature-based paintings. Since the late 1980'southward his paintings reflect what he calls "Entering Nature". He lives in the countryside n of Toronto.
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1940-2014, Dennis was the creative person born into a family of mechanics and was often put down for his involvement and abilities in the visual arts. He persevered and went on to study at the Ontario College of Art from which he graduated in 1966. At this time Dennis, along with his class mate Hans Aarden, went on to become one of the first artists to paint murals in Toronto'south colourful Kensington Market commune.
He and so launched a successful career equally a commercial illustrator and his magazine/editorial art appeared regularly over the years in local periodicals such as Toronto Life and Maclean'due south as well as internationally, winning him awards in Canada, the United States and Nihon. He illustrated a number of book covers including ones for Timothy Findlay and Margaret Atwood, illustrated children's books and was deputed past Canada Mail to design and pigment a number of stamps. The berry stamps (2003), ten maple tree stamps for Canada Twenty-four hour period (1994) and the lighthouse series which won him the Stamp of the Year accolade in 1981.
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Alfred Birdsey (1912-1996) was ane of the more famous and talented watercolourists in Bermuda, his impressionistic landscapes of Hamilton, St. Georges and the surrounding sailboats, homes, and bays of Bermuda are world-renowned. He besides painted some sailboat artwork that was used to promote the America's Loving cup when it is sailed from Newport, RI, United states to Bermuda.
Alfred Birdsey stood alone for nigh of the second half of the 20th century as the merely modernist painter working in Bermuda. Entirely self-taught, it is believed he started painting in 1927 at the age of xvi.
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Born in 1920, Paul A. De Bagossy studied at the University of Fine Arts in Budapest. His figurative and realistic style allows him to paint still lifes with flowers every bit well as street scenes across Montreal.
De Bagossy exhibits in several cities in Europe, Canada and the United States. His works are part of numerous individual and corporate collections around the world.
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Thomas Mower Martin, 1838-1934, was born in London, England and received art training at a number of institutions. He and his married woman, Emma Nichols, 1842-1911 moved to Toronto, Ontario in 1862. He painted mostly landscapes, animals in activity, nonetheless lifes and some portraits and traveled widely throughout North America.
Martin was a founding fellow member of the Ontario Society of Artists in 1872 and was manager of the Ontario Government Art schoolhouse from 1877 to 1879. He was also a founder of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1880. In 1907 he produced a major volume, Canada, with text by Wilfred Campbell. In 1909 Martin became a member of the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists.
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Halfred Tygesen was built-in in Copenhagen, Denmark and came to Canada in 1926. He had attended art school in Denmark and became a member of the Danish Purple Academy. In Canada, Tygesen introduced a technique for pastel "painting". He travelled beyond the country painting scenes from Stanley Park in Vancouver to the Ontario countryside. He also painted Danish landscapes and seascapes based on drawings he had washed before he moved to Canada.
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From an early age, Salvador Dalí was encouraged to practice his art, and he would eventually get on to written report at an academy in Madrid. In the 1920s, he went to Paris and began interacting with artists such as Pablo Picasso, René Magritte and Miró, which led to Dalí's first Surrealist phase. He is perhaps best known for his 1931 painting The Persistence of Retention, showing melting clocks in a landscape setting. The rise of fascist leader Francisco Franco in Spain led to the artist's expulsion from the Surrealist movement, but that didn't stop him from painting.
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Camille Pissarro was a French mural artist best known for his influence on Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting.
As a beau, Camille Pissarro began experimenting with fine art, eventually helping to shape the Impressionist motion with friends including Claude Monet and Edgar Degas. Pissarro was also active in Post-Impressionist circles, continuing to paint until his death in Paris on November 13, 1903.
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Maja Padrov was built-in in Novi Sad, Serbia, and moved to Fredericton in 1997. In 2001, she graduated from the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, Fredericton, with Diploma in Studio Pottery.
Maja often changes the method of making, proportions and appearance of elements, so the office is not always obvious. She likes to suit elements in a playful, illogical manner; their placement and interplay bear on both function and the artful.
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Andre Haines has recently moved to Saint John from Nova Scotia, where he spent many years building his artistic talent and showcasing his work. Soon before moving to Saint John, Haines was recognized past the Nova Scotia legislature for his contributions to the artistic communities.
Andre has become well known in Saint John as many people have seen him effectually town capturing the essence of our beautiful and historical city on streets, parks and subconscious corners. Haines has painted in the streets of New York, Europe and Atlantic Canada, and now nosotros welcome him to Saint John and to our gallery!
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Alfred Joseph Casson worked in commercial art firms from the age of xv, becoming a full-time artist only when he retired in 1957, equally Vice-President and Art Director of the Toronto firm of Sampson & Matthews. In 1926, Casson had replaced Johnston as a member of the Grouping of Seven. He painted generally in watercolours until the 1950s. In the 1930s he concentrated on Ontario villages (Summertime Sun , 1940; Anglican Church at Magnetawan, 1933). The dramatic lighting of his mid-1940s landscapes gave fashion to superimposed forms and light broken into planes from the 1940s-1950s. In his later paintings, he reduced forms to ii-dimensional patterns.
The painter and designer A.J. Casson, younger than other members of the Grouping of Seven, became a full-time artist just on retirement from his successful commercial career. His fine art distills Ontario's farmland and forests into highly finished, advisedly composed designs, with a stillness that sometimes seems ominous.
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