Kenneth Campbell Lochhead, (May 22, 1926 – July 15, 2006) was a Canadian professor and painter. He was the brother of poet Douglas Lochhead.

Career

Born in

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, Ontario, Lochhead attended the Summer Art School at

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in 1944. From 1945 to 1948, he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. From 1946 to 1948, he studied at the Barnes Foundation near Philadelphia. From 1950 to 1964, he was the director of the School of Art at the University of Saskatchewan – Regina Campus. Among his pupils there was Joan Rankin. From 1964 to 1973, he was an associate professor in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba. From 1973 to 1975, he was a professor in the Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts at York University. From 1975 to 1989, he was a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa. In 1961, he exhibited his paintings as part of the ''

Regina Five Regina Five is the name given to five abstract painters, Kenneth Lochhead, Arthur McKay, Douglas Morton, Ted Godwin, and Ronald Bloore, who displayed their works in the 1961 National Gallery of Canada's exhibition "Five Painters from Regina". W ...

'' at the National Gallery of Canada with

Art McKay Arthur Fortescue McKay, best known as Art McKay (September 11, 1926 – August 3, 2000) was a Canadian painter and a member of The Regina Five. Many of his works are modernist abstractions. Early life and education McKay was born in Nipawin, S ...

, Ron Bloore, Ted Godwin, and Doug Morton. Along with McKay, ne was included in Clement Greenberg's 1964 ''

Post-Painterly Abstraction Post-painterly abstraction is a term created by art critic Clement Greenberg as the title for an exhibit he curated for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1964, which subsequently travelled to the Walker Art Center and the Art Gallery of Toront ...

'' exhibition. In 1970, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contribution to the development of painting, especially in Western Canada, as an artist and teacher".Order of Canada Website
Retrieved August 2, 2006 In 2006, he was awarded the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts He died of

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in Ottawa in 2006.

Books illustrated

*''Looking into Trees'' (Sackville NB:

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, 2009)

References

External links

*
Kenneth Lochhead's official website
* University of Regina Archives and Special Collections. Ken Lochhead Fonds. https://www.uregina.ca/library/services/archives/collections/art-architecture/lockhhead.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Lochhead, Kenneth 1926 births 2006 deaths Deaths from colorectal cancer 20th-century Canadian painters Canadian male painters 21st-century Canadian painters Officers of the Order of Canada Artists from Ottawa University of Manitoba faculty University of Ottawa faculty University of Saskatchewan faculty York University faculty Deaths from cancer in Ontario Artists from Saskatchewan Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts winners 20th-century Canadian male artists 21st-century Canadian male artists Canadian abstract artists