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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).
The museum's military art collection takes its name from Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, who established the art collection that later became the Canadian War Records. [71] Although the museum's war art collection included over 13,000 works, only 64 of these pieces depicted a dead body as of 2017.
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.
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.
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.
In 1951, he began his career as a graphic designer for the Canadian Government and retired after 27 years to work full time as an artist. His work is in the collections of the Canadian War Museum (nearly 200 sketches and paintings) [1] and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. [4] He died in Ottawa in 2007. [3]
During the Second World War, Jackson became one of the central figures in the development of the Canadian War Art Program in 1943. Working with the National Gallery of Canada, he played a pivotal role in organizing the largest public art project in Canadian history: the Sampson-Matthews silkscreen print program in 1942. [18]