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Royle believed that painting was "not a trick dependent on skill and craftsmanship" but a language the grammar and syntax of which could be learned through perserverence and practise. Colville seems to have adopted this belief but rejected his painting master's political cant, except where… Continue

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Rodney C. Mackay Colville, All Killed..

This image of a dead German soldier was also painted a year after the end of the war. It is not surprising that Colville's post-war world became "unsettling and uncompromising." His lexicon of expressionism from then on became: "absence, loss, emptiness, disquiet, mystery, al… Continue

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Rodney C. Mackay This Colville painting is not plein air, but a rectrospective of war painted in 1946. It shows the…

This Colville painting is not plein air, but a rectrospective of war painted in 1946. It shows the "rough, broken technique of painting" which his teacher, Stanley Royle, managed to bend in the direction of "subtlety of tone, and thin, rather smooth paint." Colville has t… Continue

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Rodney C. Mackay Col 45

Born in Toronto in 1920, David Alexander Colville and his family moved to Nova Scotia nine years later. He studied Fine Art at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick under Stanley Royle. At graduation in 1942 he married Rhoda Wright and enlisted in the Canadian army. In 1944 he w… Continue

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Rodney C. Mackay The Royle/Nutt Case

Harris had war experience, family connections and a great art background so it was not surprising that he became the new man in charge of the Owen's Art Gallery and School at Sackville when his teacher, Stanley Royle, sailed back to England in 1946. Harris was destined to remain… Continue

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Rodney C. Mackay The Seduction of the Innocents

Lawren Stewart Harris was a very competent abstractionist; his son was not. The evidence speaks for itself! Although he did sell his abstract paintings, his commissioned realist portraits were a better source of income. I remember his saying that those lines across the canvas ha… Continue

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Rodney C. Mackay The Massey-Harris Lad

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Rodney C. Mackay The Massey-Hasrris Lad

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Rodney C. Mackay Alfred Pinsky

Alfred Pinsky was born March 31, 1921. He came to Sir George Williams University in 1959 as a part-time lecturer in Fine Arts but in 1960, became a full-time lecturer, and chair of the newly-created Department of Fine Arts. He was joined there in 1961 by Leah Sherman who was also a native… Continue

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Rodney C. Mackay Alfred Pinsky

Alfred Pinsky was probably a bit more in Lucy Jarvis's camp. Again, this visiting lecturer was a Marxist. He is less well known that his wife, the artist Ghitta Caiserman. The strident socialism of pre-war Canada seems over serious in this time, but remember that our artists were th… Continue

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Rodney C. Mackay Goodridge Roberts

William Goodridge Roberts (1904-1974), was more of a lanscape artist than Brandtner. He attended the École des beaux-arts in Montreal (1923-1925) and the Art Students' League in New York (1927-1929). He was the first artist-in-residence at Queen's University (1933-1936) where he gave a… Continue

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Rodney C. Mackay Fritz Brandtner as a Social Realist

ritz Brandter was as conflicted as any artist at mid-century. In addition to his straight abstractions he produced a number of themed paintings like that seen above. It is obvious why Lucy Jarvis might have liked him! He also did quite a bit of "Wokers Of The World" decorations for the i… Continue

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Rodney C. Mackay "Doctor" Brandtner

The post war period was not an easy one for painters, which is why many of them turned to commercial projects and teaching to supplement their incomes. Brandtner directed classes for a variety of community organizations, including the Children's Memorial Hospital as a support to their r… Continue

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Rodney C. Mackay Fritz Brandtner

In Donald McKay's years as principal of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1946-1966) that school churned out many competent landscape painters who shared his belief in serving the market. In Nova Scotia, there was very little social realism and none of the spunk and vinegar… Continue

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Rodney C. Mackay Tela Purcell

Tela Purcell was born in Halifax n 1932.. She studied children's art at the Nova Scotia College of Art under the direction of Donald MacKay. Here she met her future husband and fellow art student, Joseph Purcell. After graduation, they married and moved to Lunenburg. She appeared with he… Continue

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Rodney C. Mackay Joseph Purcell

Joseph Purcell was born in Halifax,. He studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and began exhibiting at the Granville Galleries in 1947. In that year, Purcell shared a studio with fellow artist and former classmate Jack L. Gray in New Harbour, Nova Scotia. He completed a series of m… Continue

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Rodney C. Mackay William DeGarthe

William Edward deGarthe (1907–1983) was born in Helsinki, Finland. He studied fine art there and after emigrating to Canada in 1926 he continued his art studies in Montreal at the Museum of Fine Art under Edmond Dyonnet. He moved to Nova Scotia in 1945 and began to study oil paint… Continue

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Rodney C. Mackay Jack Gray and John F. Kennedy

Gray was now in negotiation with the New York press agency Peed & Gammon, who had arranged for Gray's canvas Dressing Down, the Gully to be purchased by the newly elected US president John F. Kennedy. It was thus that a Bluenoser out-yankeed the Yankee painters. This sale… Continue

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Rodney C. Mackay Jack Gray

From 1955 until 1959 he worked in New York City. Legend has it that he lived aboard his sailing ship, the S.O.B. and came into the harbour in a 15 foot sloop to paint the local scene. Actually, he painted on studios in boats in Flushing Bay. Represented by New York commercial galleries,… Continue

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