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Dickson, Jennifer (1936- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1936-

Jennifer Dickson emigrated to Canada in 1969. Born in the Republic of South Africa in 1936, she studied at Goldsmiths’ College School of Art (University of London, England) from 1954 - 1959; and from 1960 - 1965 was an Associate of the prestigious graphic workshop, Atelier 17 in Paris, studying under the late S.W. Hayter. She has lived and worked in England, France, Jamaica and the U.S.A. In 1974 she became a Canadian Citizen. Since 1962, Jennifer Dickson has had more than 60 one-person exhibitions in six countries and has participated in more than 400 group exhibitions. She has been a guest lecturer at nine U.S.A. Universities, and has been invited to speak across Canada at Canadian art schools and universities.

Schweitzer, John A. (1952- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1952-

Born in Simcoe, Ontario in 1952, John A. Schweitzer is a well-established Montréal artist. He has a B.A. Honours Visual Arts, from University of Western Ontario (1974) a Masters of Fine Arts in Painting from York University, Toronto (1978) and pursued post-graduate studies at McGill University in architecture, film, literature and theater. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions including at the Goethe-Institute, Toronto, (1999) Galerie Christiane Chassay, Montréal, and Visual Arts Center, Montréal, (2001). He has received numerous awards for his artist Achievements and philanthropy . Schweitzer lives and works in Montréal.

BUArtColl · Person · 1869-1937

Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté was born in Arthabaska County, Québec in 1869. A painter, sculptor and church decorator, he was primarily known for his landscapes of the thawing winter rivers of Arthabaska. As a young man he apprenticed with painter-decorator Joseph-Thomas Rousseau (1852-1896). Together, they decorated several churches in and around Arthabaska. Looking to further his education in art, Suzor-Coté took the first of many trips to France in 1891.
Inspired by French painters like Jean-François Millet (1814-1875), Suzor-Coté began to focus on local farmers. In 1909, he recived a commission to paint Sir Wilfred Laurier. Suzor-Coté received many awards and distinctions, including the bronze medal at the 1900 Paris World Fair. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He died in Florida in 1937.

BUArtColl · Person · 1930-1920

Dr. Robert Paulette was born in Sherbrooke in 1930. He graduated from Sherbrooke High School and was awarded a McConnell Scholarship to study at McGill, where he obtained and B.Sc. degree and an M.D. After a year's internship in Montréal, he went to the USA to pursue postgraduate studies in general and thoracic surgery. In New York he studied at the NYU Bellevue Medical Center as well as at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Centre. In 1961, he joined the staff at Sherbrooke Hospital, where he became Chief of Surgery.
Dr. Paulette's interest in photography goes back as far as his teenage years, when he was given the gift of a camera from a soldier after World War II.
He died on March 21, 2020, after a short battle with cancer, in Calgary, Alberta.

Merola, Mario (1931- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1931-

Mario Merola was born in Montréal in 1931 and attended the École des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1946-1952, where he studied decoration with painter Maurice Raymond (1912-2006), Stanley Cosgrove, (1911- 2002) Umberto Bruni. (1914-2021) He served as director of the Académie Internationale des Beaux-Arts du Québec In 1952 he went to France to take a set design course at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He then attended the Place-des-arts encounter work shop after which he was hired as a costume designer at Radio-Canada. Starting in 1957, Merola produced numerous murals integrated with architecture, including one in Canadian pavilion at the Brussels Work Fair and those in Sherbrooke and Charlevoix Metro stations.

Bury, Brenda (1932- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1932-

Brenda Bury is a portrait artist who was born, educated, and trained in England. She took an Honours Degree in Fine Art at the University of Reading in order to study with Anthony Betts, himself a pupil and friend of Sargent, Whistler and Sickert. Brenda began her professional life by painting Lord and Lady St. Oswald at their estate, Nostell Priory in Yorkshire. Throughout their lives, these, her first sitters, were her friends and patrons. Brenda Bury took a studio in London's Chelsea, but before doing this, she went to Canada for just over a year, where she painted portraits, beginning with the then Prime Minister Mr. Diefenbaker. In 1964, she painted Lord Mountbatten of Burma at his house, Broadlands. He became an enthusiastic supporter of her work, and it was he who was able to arrange for her to paint the Queen. She now works on both sides of the Atlantic from her base in Toronto where she lives with her husband, scientist John Polanyi.

Vogt, Adolphe (1842-1871)
BUArtColl · Person · 1842-1871

Adolphe Vogt (1842-1871)
Canadian artist, born in Germany.

Lewis, Hubert E. (1912-1985)
BUArtColl · Person · 1912-1985

Mr. Hubert E. Lewis was born August 22, 1912 in Montréal, Québec. After graduating from Winnipeg's Western Bible College in 1946, he moved to Lennoxville and started a Pentecostal Church currently known as "Oasis". He worked as Chief accountant for Bishop's University from 1958 - 1980. His wife, Jeanie Lewis, worked in the Records Office of Bishop's and his three children are Bishop's graduates. He died November 27, 1985 in Sherbrooke.

BUArtColl · Person · 1885-1972

Thomas Herbert Hall was a commercial artist and illustrator who was born March 6th, 1885 in Hemsworth (Ackworth) Yorkshire England. Tom Hall's commercial works included posters, calendars and magazine cover work. His preferred media were oils, water, charcoal, pastels , paper and ink. He died April 17th,1972 at the Lakeshore Hospital Montréal Québec

Ballantyne, John S. (1944- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1944-

John Ballantyne was born in Montréal in 1944. His earliest painting classes were with Alfred Pinsky (1921-1999) and Arthur Lismer (1885-1969). Following High School he studied civil engineering but left these studies in 1967 to return to painting. In 1968, he joined the New School of Art in Toronto. After one year he left to work in Nice, France and there he worked in "Centre artistique de rencontres internationales" , part of "L'École nationale d'art décoratif de Nice". In 1970, he was offered a studio in the village of Cagnes near Nice. His work quickly evolved from colour-field through photo-realism into a soft, quiet style of realism called by critics "hyper-surrealism". Following some early successes in England and France, John returned to Québec in late 1973. He set a studio outside of Sutton in order to develop his work in an isolated environment. From Sutton his works have found their way around the world and into collections across Canada, the United States, France, England and Denmark.

BUArtColl · Person · 1876-1962

Aldéric Bourgeois was an Illustrator and painter who was born in Montréal in 1876. He studied drawing in Montréal under Edmond Dyonnet RCA (1859–1954). He attended the Art Association of Montréal under William Brymner, CMG RCA (1855 –1925) for three years. Later on he studied illustration with American Jesse Leach France (1862-1926). Bourgeois was a leading French Canadian cartoonist for a time and he worked for La Presse ( Montréal) La Patrie ( Montréal) in 1903 and several Amercian newspapers. Earlier in his career he painted landscapes and sold them at auction in Montréal. He died in 1962.

BUArtColl · Person · 1936-

Tom Forrestall is a Canadian painter born in Middleton, Nova Scotia in 1936. After graduating in 1958 from Mount Allison University (where he studied with Alex Colville (1920-2013) ) he was assistant curator at Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton. The following year he became a full time painter. His realistic works, often done in egg tempera, convey his ideas of the East Coast landscape and its dwellings. He painted a large number of out-of-doors watercolours, which express much the same ideas as his egg tempera work, but in a more relaxed, and joyous mood. He became an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1986.

Excelsior Glass Company
BUArtColl · Corporate body · 1878-1883

The Foster Brothers of the St. John, Québec (now known as Saint-Jean-sur Richelieu) glass factory was bought by the Yuile Brothers in 1878 and renamed the Excelsior Glass Company. In 1880 they moved the operation to Montréal and remained there until 1883. In 1883, they transferred to another location in Montréal and changed the name to the North American Glass Company, incorporated in 1883. The firm operated under that name until 1891 when it became the Diamond Glass Company. Operations were carried on under that name until 1902. In that year, the name was changed to the Diamond Flint Glass Company Ltd. The Diamond Flint Glass Company Ltd. acquired control of the all-important Burlington Glass Works, the Hamilton Glass Works, the Nova Scotia Glass Company of Trenton, Nova Scotia, the Lamont Glass Company, and, through its successor the Diamond Flint Glass Company, additional glass factories in Québec and Ontario.

Hellebuyck, Victor (1950- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1950-

Originally from El Salvador, South America, Victor came to the Eastern Townships in 1980 (with his wife who is a native Québecer) to escape the war in El Salvador. He began his studies in Biology and Fine Arts at Bishop's University. He often wandered around the Johnville Bog, armed with sketchbooks and butterfly nets to procure subjects for his watercolour paintings. In 1984, a series of six postage stamps with his birds were published by the El Salvador Post office.

BUArtColl · Person · ca. 1804-1895

Portrait painter Antoine Sébastien Plamondon was born in St. Roch, Québec in 1804. Plamondon began his art career at the age of fifteen, apprenticed to Joseph Legaré (1795-1855). Legaré was restoring paintings which had been shipped to Québec from France to be safe from the French Revolution and Plamondon learned to paint by helping him. In 1826 his talent was recognized by Vicar-General of Quebéc and he was sent to France to study further. there he studied under Paulin Guérin (1783-18550 who was portrait painter to Charles X. Travelling to Venice, Florence and Rome, he copied works of early Italian painters before returning to Québec. He painted over fifty portraits of upper bourgeoisie of Québec City. He is represented in collections across Canada such as Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, McGill University, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Art Gallery of Ontario and in many private collections. He died in Neuville, Québec in 1895.

BUArtColl · Person · ca. 1719-1771

Thomas Jefferys was a prolific map publisher, engraver, and cartographer based in London. Jefferys was apprenticed to Emanuel Bowen, a prominent mapmaker and engraver and he also had several collaborators and partners throughout his career. His first atlas, The Small English Atlas, was published with Thomas Kitchin in 1748-9. Later, he worked with Robert Sayer on A General Topography of North America (1768); Sayer also published posthumous collections with Jefferys' contributions including The American Atlas, The North-American Pilot, and The West-India Atlas.
Jefferys was the Geographer to Frederick Prince of Wales and, from 1760, to King George III. Mostly due to opportunities offered by the Seven Years' War, he is best known today for his maps of North America, and for his central place in the map trade—he not only sold maps commercially, but also imported the latest materials and had ties to several government bodies for whom he produced materials.
Upon his death in 1771, his workshop passed to his partner, William Faden, and his son, Thomas Jr. However, Jefferys had gone bankrupt in 1766 and some of his plates were bought by Robert Sayer. Sayer, who had partnered in the past with Philip Overton (d. 1751), specialized in (re)publishing maps. In 1770, he collaborated with John Bennett and many Jefferys maps were republished by the duo.

Wellge, Henry (1850-1917)
BUArtColl · Person · 1850-1917

Henry Wellge was a German born lithographer who immigrated to United States in 1871. His name first appeared in Milwaukee in 1878, and from 1879 to 1884, he worked for Joseph J. Stoner, lithographer and publisher. From 1884 to 1886, Wellge was in a partnership with George E. Norris, and that firm eventually became Norris, Wellge and Company. He was known for his "Bird's Eye View" maps of Québec and many cities in America. In 1886, he formed his own company, Henry Wellge and Company. He died in 1917.

Harris, Tony (1964- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1964-

Tony Harris graduated from Bishop's University in the 80's with a BA in Fine arts. He has a successful career painting Canadian golf courses however now he is known more for his Hockey player portraits. He lives and works in Ottawa, Ontario.

BUArtColl · Person · 1926- 2006

Kenneth Lochhead studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in 1950 became Director of the University of Saskatchewan School of Art in Regina. In 1955, Lochhead initiated the Emma Lake Professional Artists' Workshops, which attracted artists such as Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Jack Shadbolt and the critic Clement Greenberg. The summer workshops brought about a renaissance in Saskatchewan art and helped propel it onto the international scene. Lochhead also became known as one of the ‘Regina Five’ painters that first exhibited together at the National Gallery in 1961 and who were considered to be at the forefront of modernist art in Canada.

After Regina, Lochhead continued to teach painting and drawing at the University of Manitoba, York University and the University of Ottawa. He retired in 1990 to devote his time to working at his studio in the Gatineau hills. A ‘painter’s painter’, Lochhead’s work is known for its’ compositional finesse and often exuberant use of colour. A retrospective of Lochhead’s work, entitled ‘Garden of Light 1948 to 2002’, was shown last year at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina.

Lochhead was an Officer of the Order of Canada, a recipient of an Honorary Doctors of Laws, University of Regina, and a 2006 recipient of the Governor-General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. He died in 2006 at the age of 80 after a long illness.

BUArtColl · Person · 1885-1970

Lawren Stewart Harris was born in Ontario in 1885. Harris was a key figure in Canada's Group of Seven and gave new vision to representations of the northern Canadian landscape.
Harris spent three years studying in Germany (1904-07), where he became interested in theosophy, a mystical branch of religious philosophy that would transform his later painting. Coming from a wealthy family he was able to devote himself entirely to his art.
In 1920 Harris, J.E.H. MacDonald, Frank Johnston, Franklin Carmichael, A.Y. Jackson, F.H. Varley, and Arthur Lismer formed the Group of Seven. These artists would collectively create a range of new representations of the Canadian landscape, particularly the North. Over the course of his career, Harris's painting evolved from Impressionist-influenced, decorative landscapes to stark images of the northern landscape to geometric abstractions. He painted in the Algoma region from 1918 to 1924, on the north shore of Lake Superior from 1921 to 1928, in the Rocky Mountains from 1924, and in the Arctic in 1930.
From 1934 to 1937, Harris lived in Hanover, New Hampshire, where he painted his first abstract works, a direction he would continue for the rest of his life. In 1938 he moved to Sante Fe, New Mexico, and helped found the Transcendental Painting Group, an organization of artists who advocated a spiritual form of abstraction.
Harris settled in Vancouver in 1940, where he continued to paint and involve himself with arts organizations, playing an important role in this milieu until his death in 1970.

BUArtColl · Person · 1917-2005

Born in 1917 in Montréal, Québec, de Tonnancour was mostly self taught but did attend Montreal's l'École des Beaux-Arts for three years. The tree was a very important source of subject matter for him. He was influenced by Picasso, Matisse and Goodridge Roberts, among others. His work is represented in many collections across Canada including, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, The Art Gallery on Ontario, The London Art Gallery, Ontario, Hamilton Art Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Lord Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Hart House, Toronto and Vancouver Art Gallery.

Von Tiedemann, Joy
BUArtColl · Person · 20-21 cent.

"After apprenticing with one of her native Germany’s leading photographers, Joy von Tiedemann immigrated to Canada at the age of twenty, quickly establishing herself as one of the country’s most accomplished freelance photographers with a practice that spans fashion, portraiture, architecture, interior design and, most recently, construction where she brilliantly captures the raw energy and timeless beauty of the “art of building.” Through her lens she masterfully records the process of transforming steel, concrete and rebar into architectural icons for the ages, and nowhere is that more in evidence than in her most recent project: Documenting the creation of Toronto’s The One, soon-to-be Canada’s tallest building. Perhaps the reason why her images so viscerally connect with viewers is because they boldly express her own indelible personality: energetic, endlessly inquisitive and with the empathy necessary to plumb a subject’s essence with absolute honesty and aesthetic acuity."

BUArtColl · Person · 1914-1999

Norman Kucharsky (professional name Norman Kirk) was born in 1914. He was a graphic artist for the CBC and Radio-Canada in Montréal. Before his Second World War military service, he painted store signs and created stage sets and displays for night clubs and took night courses in art at the Monument National and École des Beaux Arts. In 1944, his water colour “Sally Ann, Petawawa,” depicting soldiers at an army training barracks entering the Salvation Army in Petawawa, Ontario won second prize in the Canadian Army Art Exhibition and appeared in Canadian Art magazine. His water colour “Dugout in Belgium,” picturing soldiers in their dugout smoking at dawn, also won a second prize award at the Overseas Army Art Competition in 1945. After the war, he went to New York, New York to further his art studies. He died in Montréal in 1999.

Kanaju, Pauloosie (1937- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1937-

Pauloosie Kanaju was born on April 28, 1937 in Puvirnituq. He is married to Elizabeth Najumi, and they have three sons. Pauloosie's brother Allie Kanyek is also a Puvirnituq carver.

In addition to hunting , fishing, and carving, Pauloosie operates is own poolroom. As with many Inuit artists, it is his experience on the land that provide the inspiration for much of his carving. One of the dominant themes in his art is that of the hunter - usually caught just at the moment of making the kill. Pauloosie's sculpture is characterized by the inclusion of the meticulously carved items such as harpoons, knives, rifles, tie-ropes and the like, which are usually made form ivory or bone, and attached to the stone figures with pieces of sinew. He prefers to carve out the rippling folds of the parkas and other garment details rather than to rely on incising the details onto the stone.

In the fall of 1968, Pauloosie was awarded a commission by the Ontario Government to produce a massive outdoor sculpture for the new buildings complex. Today, this unpolished black marble carving of a hunter skinning a seal stands in front of the provincial building at Queen's Park in Toronto.
In 1975, Pauloosie demonstrated his carving abilities as one of three delegates to represent Purvirnituq in the ice sculpture competition hosted by Quebec Winter Carnival Association.

BUArtColl · Person · 1905 -1960

According to the National Gallery of Canada website, Paul-Émile Borduas is one of the most important figures in modern Canadian art.
Borduas' early career was spent mostly as a church decorator, assisting Québec painter and decorator ,Ozias Leduc (1864- 1955). Before going to Europe and studying under Maurice Denis and Georges Desvallieres at École des Art Sacrés in Paris, he took classes in Montreal at École des Beaux Arts and École Technique. His students included Jean Paul Riopelle, ( 1923-2002) Rita Letendre (1928-2021) and Marcel Barbeau (1925-2016) . Borduas was the author of the "Refus Global", an influential manifest calling for freedom of expression and signed by many of Québec's leading artist and intellectuals.
Borduas moved to New York in 1953 which greatly influenced his artistic development. There he saw the work of artists from the New York School of Abstract Expressionists, including American painters Jackson Pollock (1912- 1956) and Markus Y. Rothkowitz aka Mark Rothko (1903-1970). In 1955 he moved back to Paris where he continued to write and paint. He died there in 1960.

Snow, Michael (1928- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1928-

Born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1928, Michael Snow is the son of Gerald Bradley Snow, a veteran of the First World War, a civil engineer and surveyor, and Antoinette Levesque. He traces the dualistic structure of his work to his Canadian upbringing between two cultures—English and French—and his early awareness of the different qualities of sight and sound, learned from his parents.
Having studied at the Ontario College of Art in his native Toronto, he travelled in Europe in the 1950s and lived in New York in the 1960s. Snow’s has been recognized internationally for his contributions to three spheres of cultural activity—visual art, experimental film, and music.
He lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.

BUArtColl · Person · 1890-1945

Born in Orillia, Ontario, to Scottish parents, Franklin Carmichael studied art at the Ontario College of Art with William Cruickshank (1848-1922) and George Reid (1860-1947) and then went to Toronto Technical School with Gustav Hahn.(1866-1962)
He was an apprentice artist with a commercial advertising company called Grip Ltd., which is where he met Tom Thomson (1877-1917), Arthur Lismer(1885- 1969), J.E.H MacDonald (1873-1932) and Frederick Varley (1881-1969). After World War I, he, and several other artists from Toronto area founded the Group of Seven. On weekends, they would travel to northern Ontario and sketch landscapes.
Franklin Carmichael also founded the Ontario Society of Painters in Watercolour (1925) and the Canadian Group of Painters (1933). As head of Graphic and Commercial Art, he taught at the Ontario College of Art from 1932 until he passed away in 1945.