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Canadian Society Of Graphic Art
The Canadian Society of Graphic Art (CSGA), originally called the Graphic Arts Club, was a non-profit organization of Canadian graphic artists. It was founded in 1904, and formally chartered in 1933. At one time it was one of the larger organizations of Canadian artists. History The Society of Graphic Art, or Graphic Arts Club, was organized in 1904 by the members of the Toronto Art Student's League and the Mahl-stick Club. Charles William Jefferys was one of the founding members. In 1909 the Canadian National Exhibition granted the Society space at its annual fall fair. The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts supported the Society from 1912. Arthur Lismer published a short essay on the Graphic Arts Club of Toronto and its relationship with the Canadian National Exhibition in ''The Year Book of Canadian Art 1913''. The Graphic Arts Club held its first public exhibition in 1924. This exhibition was held in the Art Gallery of Toronto, where most of the annual shows were held until 1963. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles William Jefferys
Charles William Jefferys (August 25, 1869 – October 8, 1951), also known as C. W. Jefferys, was a Canadian painter, illustrator, author, and teacher, best known as a historical illustrator. Biography Jefferys was born in Rochester, England. He moved with his family first to Philadelphia, then to Hamilton, Ontario, and finally to Toronto around 1880. There he attended school and was apprenticed with the York Lithography Company from 1885 to 1890. Career From 1889 to 1892 Jefferys worked for the ''Toronto Globe'' as an illustrator and artist. He produced artwork for several printing companies. From 1893 to 1901, he worked for the ''New York Herald''. Returning to Toronto, he became a newspaper, magazine and book illustrator, appearing in numerous publications, including ''Hardware Merchandising.'' Jefferys created a series of illustrations and essays for the ''Toronto Star Weekly'', which in 1920 were published as ''Dramatic Episodes in Canada's Story''. The following yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Forster (artist)
Michael Forster (1907–2002) was an Anglo-Canadian abstract artist. Born in Kolkata, India, Forster spent most of his childhood in Meerut. He studied first at Lancing College in Sussex and then later at the Central School of Arts and Crafts (now Central St. Martins – University of the Arts), as well as the Académie Colarossi in Paris. In 1927–1928, he moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in hopes of avoiding The Great Depression. His abstract paintings were created exclusively with acrylics and acrylic polymers, and his work is heavily influenced by the Surrealist movement. In fact, Forster claimed that he never planned any of his compositions, but rather that they were created according to the demands of his subconscious. Canadian art critic Paul Duval deemed him "Canada's pioneer surrealist." As a painter, Forster wanted to embody the transference of light and the patterns of nature into instinctive abstract forms. Following in the footsteps of John Constable, he took g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arts Organizations Based In Canada
The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both highly dynamic and a characteristically constant feature of human life, they have developed into innovative, stylized and sometimes intricate forms. This is often achieved through sustained and deliberate study, training and/or theorizing within a particular tradition, across generations and even between civilizations. The arts are a vehicle through which human beings cultivate distinct social, cultural and individual identities, while transmitting values, impressions, judgments, ideas, visions, spiritual meanings, patterns of life and experiences across time and space. Prominent examples of the arts include: * visual arts (including architecture, ceramics, drawing, filmmaking, painting, photography, and sculpting), * literary arts (includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avrom Yanovsky
Avrom Yanovsky (April 3, 1911 – May 22, 1979) was a Canadian graphic artist and editorial cartoonist, whose work appeared in a variety of leftist publications. He was known professionally as Avrom, though some of his work was also signed Armand, Richards or Tinòdi. In 1966-67, he was president of the Canadian Society of Graphic Art. His son was musician and restaurateur Zalman Yanovsky. Early life Yanovsky was born in 1911 at Krivoi Rog, in Tsarist Russia (now Ukraine), and came to Canada at two years of age with his family. In Winnipeg, Manitoba he was educated at the I.L. Peretz Shule and St. John's Technical High School. He also took classes at the Winnipeg School of Art and, after moving to Toronto, Ontario, the Ontario College of Art. In 1938-39, he attended the American Artists School in New York City. He joined the Young Communist League in Winnipeg in his teens and subsequently became a lifelong member of the Communist Party of Canada. Cartoons In the 1930s, Yano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorne Kidd Smith
Lorne Kidd Smith (1880 – c. 1966) was a Canadian painter best known for his scenes from the War of 1812. He lived and worked in Ontario for most of his life. Smith was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario in 1880. He studied art in Boston in his early 20s and worked for the Forbes Lithographing Company. He relocated to Toronto in 1909, and worked for Stone Limited and Brigdens Limited, as a staff artist for R.G. McLean and Grip Limited, for the art department at General Motors (1917), and as an artist for Photo Engravers Limited (1937). He was a member of the Canadian Society of Graphic Art. He designed a poster for the First World War-era Victory Loan campaign, for which he won a prize. He became an artist for Schaeffer-Ross, eventually becoming vice-president before his death. Smith's best-known paintings are "The Meeting of Brock and Tecumseh" and "Laura Secord Warning Colonel Fitzgibbon, June 1813", both of which are now in the collection of Library and Archives Canada. Both a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Shelton (artist)
Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915–1984) was a Canadian artist who lived nearly all of her life in Alberta. She worked in a number of mediums but is best known for her block printing. Biography Margaret Shelton was born August 15, 1915, in Bruce, Alberta. From 1933 to 1934 she attended the Normal School in Calgary eventually earning her teaching certificate and teaching for a brief time. She attended night and summer classes at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (PITA) from 1934 through 1943. In 1938 she earned her MFA from the Banff School of Fine Arts. Shelton was a member of the Alberta Society of Artists, the Calgary Sketch Club, the Canadian Society of Graphic Art, and the Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers. She had major exhibitions at the Burnaby Art Gallery, British Columbia in 1981, and at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary in 1985. Shelton died in 1984 in Calgary. Shelton was included in the 2012 exhibition ''Alberta Mistresses of the Modern: 1935-1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moe Reinblatt
Moses Reinblatt (June 20, 1917 – August 24, 1979) was a Canadian painter, printmaker, sculptor, and art teacher. He was associated with the Jewish Painters of Montreal. Biography Moe Reinblatt was born in Montreal to Jewish parents Manya (, 1925) and Joseph Reinblatt. His grandfather, Baruch, was an immigrant from Russian Bessarabia. Reinblatt studied art under Anne Savage at Baron Byng High School from 1932 to 1935, and under painter at the Montreal YM-YWHA from 1935 to 1942, working meanwhile at his father's embroidery business. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in April 1942. He was posted to RCAF Station Mont-Joli as an airframe mechanic, eventually rising to the rank of leading aircraftman. In August 1944 he was appointed an official war artist, and was sent to document the Canadian war effort in England. After the War, Reinblatt studied at Art Association of Montreal's School of Fine Arts and Design with Goodridge Roberts, Gordon Webber, Jacques de Tonna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Pratt
John Christopher Pratt (December 9, 1935 – June 5, 2022) was a Canadian painter and printmaker."John Christopher Pratt" . , April 8, 2009. He was noted for designing the . Early life and education Pratt was born in St. John's, |
Jo Manning
Joanne Elizabeth Manning (December 10, 1923 – January 6, 2022) was a Canadian etcher, painter and author. Early life Manning was born in Sidney, British Columbia, on December 10, 1923. She spent her early childhood on Vancouver Island, then moved to Amherstburg, Ontario. Manning studied at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and graduated in 1945. She married, and became known as Jo Rothfels. Manning returned to the OCA in 1960 to study printmaking as a special student. She took up etching in 1962. After a divorce in 1971 she reverted to her maiden name. In 1971 she studied process camera techniques and color separation at George Brown College, Toronto. Later career Manning taught in a mobile printmaking workshop between 1965 and 1970 for a community program of the Ontario Department of Education. She taught or ran workshops at Centennial College (1967–71) and Sheridan College (1971-74), and in the summer at Hockley Valley School of Art (1970–74), Elliot Lake (1970–72 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivor Lewis
Ivor Rhys Lewis (1882 – November 1958) was a Canadian artist and business director. Lewis was born in Wales, but emigrated to Canada as a small boy. He trained as an artist at the Ontario College of Art and Design, Ontario School of Art, and was hired in the art department of the Eaton's department store chain in Toronto. In 1919, he was commissioned by his fellow Eaton's employees to create the noted Timothy Eaton statue, life-size statue of Timothy Eaton, which was presented to the Eaton Family, Eaton family in honour of the store's 50th anniversary. Lewis was an accomplished painter, and he was also known for creating the medallions on the Dr. William D. Young Memorial in Toronto's Kew Gardens (Toronto), Kew Gardens. Along with Charles William Jefferys, C. W. Jefferys and other artists, Lewis co-founded the Graphic Arts Club (later named the Canadian Society of Graphic Art), which by the 1940s became one of the primary artists' groups in Canada. He was also a noted actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Lapine
Andreas Christian Gottfried (André) Lapine (15 ( Julian) / 27 ( Gregorian) October 1866, Skujene – 26 February 1952, Minden, Ontario) was a Latvian-born Canadian painter noted for his accurate depictions of horses as well as landscapes and portraits. Biography Born in the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire, in what is now Latvia, Lapine spent 20 years as an artist in the Netherlands, before emigrating to Canada in 1905, where he became especially renowned for his depictions of horses. Lapine was the son of Natalia Julia Krebs and Johan Lapine, a general contractor in the town of Schuen. He began his art training at a young age under the tutelage of M. Rose (of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg). Rose noted Lapine's exceptional talent and, in 1882, invited him to tour Europe's foremost galleries to further his art studies. After six months, Lapine separated from his instructor and took up a studio with Josef Weiss. Unable to make a decent living as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Hudon-Beaulac
Simone Marie Yvette Hudon-Beaulac (9 September 1905 – 5 August 1984) was a Canadian painter and printmaker. Early life Born Simone Marie Yvette Hudon in Quebec City, she studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in her native city, graduating in 1931 after study with Lucien Martial and H. Ivan Neilson. Career She succeeded Neilson in 1931, and taught engraving, perspective, interior design and illustration until 1945. She moved to Montreal in 1945 and worked there as a book illustrator. She won numerous awards during her career, and was exhibited widely, notably with Sylvia Daoust. She was a member of the Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers. A member of the Canadian Society of Graphic Art, she illustrated the book ''Au fil des côtes de Québec'' published by the Government of Quebec in 1967 for the Canadian centennial in 1967. Hudon was selected to represent Quebec of the exhibition ''Contemporary Art of the Western Hemisphere'', which travelled to the Cleveland Muse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
