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Cowley Abbott Canadian Art Auctioneers is an auction house in Toronto, Canada, which holds live and online auctions of Canadian historical, post-war and contemporary artwork, as well as international art. It also sells work through private sales and conducts appraisals and provides art consultancy. [1]
This is the authorized list of Official Canadian War Artists in the Second World War according to A Checklist of the War Collections of World War I, 1914-1918, and World War II, 1939-1945 by R. F. Wodehouse (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1968).
Donald K. Anderson (June 26, 1920 – May 11, 2009) was Canada's last surviving Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Official Second World War artist. [1] He was known for his character studies, depictions of people, and action scenes.
The CFAP was a successor to several other art programs. The tradition got its formal start in Canada in 1916, with the creation of the Canadian War Memorials Fund. 800 paintings, sculptures and prints were completed throughout the First World War. Most of the works submitted were by artists already serving with the military.
Wood was born in Ottawa and was largely self-taught as an artist but had some training with F.H. Varley and Franklin Brownell at the Ottawa Art Association. [1] He worked as a commercial artist in the 1930s - there are six of Wood's sketchbooks dating from 1933 to 1937 in Library and Archives Canada, [2] mostly of his environs in Ottawa.
Canadian Forestry Corps' Gas Attack, Lievin (1918) by Canadian war artist A. Y. Jackson. Representative works by Canada's artists whose work illustrates and records war are gathered into the extensive collection of the Canadian War Museum. The earliest war art in Canada was rock art created by Indigenous peoples from all regions of the country ...
Simpson was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. [3] His diploma submission, Indian Summer, Montreal Harbour was deposited in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada in 1921. [4] Simpson worked as an illustrator, creating images for books commissioned by various firms to promote their industries or commemorate their ...
Molly Lamb Bobak CM ONB RCA (née Lamb; February 25, 1920 – March 2, 2014) was a Canadian teacher, writer, printmaker and painter working in oils and watercolours. During World War II, she was the first Canadian woman artist to be sent overseas to document Canada's war effort, and in particular, the work of the Canadian Women's Army Corps (C.W.A.C), as one of Canada's war artists.