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BUArtColl · Person · 1906-1980

Born in Duckenfield, England, in 1906, Thomas Garside arrived in Canada in 1914. Later he studied at the Monument-National under Edmond Dyonnet (1859-1954) and Adam Sheriff Scott (1887-1980) and at the Montréal Art Association under Paul Caron (1874-1941) and W.H. Taylor ( 1891-1978). His subjects included scenes for the Laurentian region, Baie St. Paul, Cape Cod, Murray Bay, Newfoundland and Eastern Townships of Québec. He died in Montréal in 1980.

BUArtColl · Person · 1958-

Originally from France, artist Jean-Michel Correia (1958- ) has been established in Montréal for many years. His academic background in architecture and fine arts led him to studio arts, which he has been practising for 35 years. At once colourful and minimalist, his works have been exhibited in cities such as Paris, New York, Miami, and Seoul. Jean-Michel Correia has taught in the Design department of the Faculté de l’aménagement at the Université de Montréal, and in the Master’s program in Pratiques artistiques actuelles at the Université de Sherbrooke. He is also a curator, an art critic, and a doctoral candidate in Études et pratiques des arts at UQAM.

Onley, Toni (1928-2004)
BUArtColl · Person · 1928-2004

Toni Onley was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, on November 20, 1928. He studied painting at the Douglas School of Fine Arts and was later a student of architecture for two years. He came to Canada in 1948 and studied at the Doon School of Fine Arts, Doon, Ontario. In 1958, he was awarded a scholarship to the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he studied with Mexican artist James Pinto (1907-1987). Pinto's abstract impressionistic paintings inspired him to experiment with non-objective painting and collage, and later to produce his major period of abstract painting in the sixties. He then lived in Vancouver, B.C. and in September 1966 went to live in Victoria where he taught in the Department of Fine Art at the University of Victoria.
His work is part of many public collections around the world, including the Tate Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Library of Congress, Washington; National Gallery of Canada; Canada Council Art Bank; Vancouver Art Gallery; and Bishop's University.
He died in Vancouver, British Columbia in 2004.

BUArtColl · Person · 1901-1989

"Thoreau MacDonald, illustrator, designer, painter (born at Toronto, 21 April 1901; died at Toronto 30 May 1989) was self-taught but worked with his father, J.E. H. MacDonald (1873-1932) founding member of the Group of Seven. Colour blindness forced him to work mainly in black and white. His illustrations, particularly for the Ryerson Press and magazine Canadian Forum, typified a whole period of Canadian Illustration in the 1920s and 1930s. Certain technical mannerisms characterized his work; skies are a series of parallel horizontal lines; clouds are simplified ameboid shapes and trees look like skeletons of conch shells; and his animals recall the art of the ancient Near East, appearing full face or usually, in profile. In general, his subjects recalled his father’s but favoured Ontario farmland. He was one of the first artists in Canada to study factories and construction, but his work is most memorable for his delight in nature."

BUArtColl · Person · 1862-1943

Robert Norman Hudspeth (1862-1943) was born in Caledonia, Ontario. As a young man, he studied Theology at Trinity in Toronto, but was never ordained.
Bishop’s Principal Adams appointed him as a lecturer in Natural Sciences and then, three years later, he was appointed lecturer in Physics and Chemistry.
Mr. Hudspeth organized the Choral Society in Lennoxville as well as directing the Lyric Club at Bishop’s. For a time he was the organist at St. George’s Church and his name appears on many musical programs as a cello soloist or with a string ensemble.
In 1895, Mr. Hudspeth took two years off to study art and sculpture in Paris. He was a member of the Ontario Society of Art and exhibited at the Toronto Industrial Exhibition at the turn of the century. He was primarily known for his portraits, landscapes and miniatures. Mr. Hudspeth’s interest in art included making Kilnburn Pottery, of which a number of pieces were shown at the exhibition of the Royal Canadian Art Association in Montreal in 1909.
In 1909, he moved to Concord, Massachusetts, where he continued to teach and pursue his career in art. Before he left Lennoxville, he did this portrait of The Reverend Archibald Campbell Scarth, Rector of St. George’s Anglican Church and presented it to the church.
He died in 1943 at the age of 81.

BUArtColl · Person · 1882-1968

Margaret Richardson lived in Lennoxville, Québec and exhibited at the Art Association of Montréal (now Montréal Museum of Fine Arts) from 1934 to 1939.

Hilts, Alvin (1908- 1991)
BUArtColl · Person · 1908-1991

Mr. Alvin Hilts, RCA, OSA, was born in Newmarket, Ontario on May 2, 1908. He studied at the Ontario College of Art with sculptor Emanuel Hahn (1881-1957) and apprenticed with sculptors Frances Loring (1887-1968) and Florence Wyle (1881-1968) in their studios where he also learned portraiture, reliefs and 3-D figures. Florence Wyle made him her protégé. His commissions include War Memorial for Government of Canada, Newmarket, sculpture for Holy Trinity Church, Welland, and R.S. McLaughlin Collegiate, Oshawa. He was a member of Sculptors Society of Canada from (1931-1972) and President from 1956-1958. He died in Peterborough County, Ontario, in 1991.

BUArtColl · Person · 1913-1978

Born in Montréal in 1913, Lorne Bouchard received his early artistic training at the Barnes School of Art under Wilfred M. Barnes, (1882-1955) and then later at the École des Beaux-arts under Maurice Felix, (1889-1969). He exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy from the age of 16 on. Clarence Gagnon (1881-1942) encouraged him and the example of Clarence Gagnon (1881-1942) and Maurice Cullen (1866-1934) helped him in his development. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1943 and full member in 1962.
He was regular exhibitor with Royal Canadian Academy, had exhibitions at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Continental Galleries from 1940 and the Walter Klinkhoff Gallery since 1960. In 1959 he won First Prize at the Montréal Hadassah Exhibition. He is represented in the permanent collections of the National Gallery in Ottawa and Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, as well as in very many private Collections in Canada and abroad. He died in 1978.

BUArtColl · Person · 1936-

Kieff Antonio Grediaga was born in 1936 in Madrid, Spain. He began working as an apprentice in his father's cabinet making atelier at a young age, later going on to study technical drawing, industrial design and architecture. Kieff's works have been exhibited in galleries, fairs and institutions in Canada, the USA, Japan, Hong Kong, and Europe. Largely inspired by music, the stage and literature, Kieff's work has always been fueled by the quest to find himself through a study of space and time and by a relentless desire to experience, manifest and share what can be considered the state of freedom. Whether sculptural or graphic, his works are an intriguing embodiment of the lyrical relationship between mass, volumes, rhythm, movement and a profound intimate reflection on his own human condition. Kieff lives and work in Montreal where he continues to develop new works.

Nicholson, Christan (1948--)
BUArtColl · Person · 1948-

Mr. Christan Nicholson is a portrait artist who was born in 1948 in New Brunswick, Canada. He graduated from Mount Allison University with a B.F.A. with Distinction in 1973. His first official commission was the portrait of Chancellor J. V. Clyne for the University of British Columbia. He is known for his Canadian Author series--portraits for 32 well known Canadian Authors such as Hugh MacLennan and Margaret Atwood. He lives and continues to paint in Ottawa Ontario.

BUArtColl · Person · 1909-1998

Jack Leonard Shadbolt was an artist, teacher, author and poet. He was born at Shoeburyness, England in 1909 and moved to Canada with his family in 1912. He was best known as a painter and draftsman. He studied at the Art Student's League in New York city, in London and in Paris. After teaching art to children in BC between 1929 and 1937, he joined the Vancouver School of Art. He wrote three books and many articles and through his teaching, profoundly influenced art and artists in BC and across Canada. He died in Burnaby, BC, Canada in 1998.

BUArtColl · Person · 1785- 1851

John James Audubon was an American ornithologist, artist and naturalist known for his studies, drawing and paintings of North American birds. He was born on April 26, 1785 in Les Cayes, Saint Domingue, Hispaniola (a former French Colony; now Haiti). Audubon conducted his first scientific studies from his father's Pennsylvania estate. After trying and failing in several different types of business ventures, he concentrated on drawing and studying birds, and began traveling around the country to pursue this work. Audubon's four-volume "Birds of America" was published in London in 1827. He died in New York city in 1851.

Dufy, Raoul
BUArtColl · Person · 1877-1953

Raoul Dufy was a French Fauvist painter, brother of Jean Dufy. He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events.

BUArtColl · Person · 1911-2002

Stanley Morel Cosgrove was born in 1911 in Point St. Charles, Montréal. He studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal from 1928 to 1935. In 1936 he furthered his art education at the Art Association of Montréal where he took figure painting under Edwin Holgate (1892-1977). In 1940 he went to the Academia Nacional de San Carlos in Mexico where he studied fresco murals under Jose Clemente Orozco (1883-1949). He was active in the field of textile designing , working with a group of artists which included Paul-Émile Borduas (1905-1960) and Françoise Sullivan (1925-) . He taught at the École des beaux-arts from 1944 to 1958 and at Queen’s University in Kingston in Ontario in 1952. He is represented in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Hart House, University of Toronto; the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the National Gallery of Canada. He was a member of the Canadian Group of Painters, Royal Canadian Academy (ARCA 1951). He died in 2002.

Eby, Pamela Gill
BUArtColl · Person · 1951-

Pamela Gill Eby was born and raised in London, Ontario. She continued her studies at the University of Western Ontario, receiving a Bachelor of Music in 1974 and Bachelor of Education in 1977.
Eby taught elementary school and music in Perth County, Ontario from 1977-1981. In 1982, she continued her organ studies in Paris (Rueil-Malmaison), France. In 1984, she moved to Waterville, Québec with her husband, Professor Jack Eby, who started teaching at Bishop's University.
Pamela Gill Eby also taught at Bishop's as an organ tutor, instructor for the School of Education (Arts in the Classroom) and as a tutor/consultant in the Writing Centre.
Mostly self-taught in the early years of her visual arts career, Eby also took art history and studio courses at Bishop's Fine Arts department and worked extensively alongside Eastern Townships artist Kay Kinsman. Back in France for the years 1993-94, Pamela took the opportunity to study life drawing in Paris (Viroflay), France.
Although Eby's preferred materials are watercolours, pen, ink, and soft pastels, she generously offered her talents to design the 1993 Sesquicentennial stained glass window for Bishop's University that is now part of the Bishop’s University Art Collection.

BUArtColl · Person · 1882-1953

David Milne was a Canadian painter, printmaker, and writer who was born in 1882. At the age of twenty-one, Milne left Canada to study art at the Art Student's League in New York from 1903-05. He supported himself by doing commercial design and painted in his spare time. In 1917, he joined the Canadian army and was sent to Europe. After the war, he painted camp scenes and deserted battlefields for the Canadian War Records. He returned to New York State for another ten years. In 1929, Milne returned permanently to Canada. By 1934, with the patronage of Alice and Vincent Massey, Milne's work was seen by Alan Jarvis ( later he would become the Director of the National Gallery) and Douglas Duncan who became Milne's agent. Through Duncan, the work of this recluse and individual painter became better known in Canada. Milne was strongly influenced by both American and French Impressionism, especially the work of Claude Monet and by Henri Matisse. He died in 1953.

BUArtColl · Person · 1802-1873

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802 –1873) was an English painter and sculptor, well known for his paintings of animals – particularly horses, dogs, and stags. However, his best-known works are the lion sculptures at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square in London, England.

Fox, John R. (1927- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1927-

John R. Fox was born in 1927 in Montréal, Québec. He attended Museum of Fine Arts School from 1946 to 1949 under artists Goodridge Roberts and William Armstrong. He was awarded a scholarship to study at the Slade School for 1952-53. Later he recieved a grant from Memorial Foundation which allowed him to study in Florence in 1955-66. He was influenced by Goodridge Roberts, and impressionist artists Matisse, Bonnard and Dufy. He painted and drew a wide variety of genre which included, landscapes, portraits, interiors, figues, and still lifes. His work is represented in major public, corporate and private collections in Canada, the United States and Europe.

Butler, Vaughn
BUArtColl · Person · 20th cent.

Vaughn Butler is a Montreal artist who was an instructor of painting and drawing at Bishop's University in 1981.

BUArtColl · Person · 1896-1965

Nicholas Hornyansky was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1896. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest. Later he studied in Vienna, Munich, Amsterdam, Paris and Antwerp.
He is a contributing member of the American Colour Print Society, Philadelphia, and the Southern Print-makers Society of Mt. Airy, Ga.
His work is represented in many museums, notably among which are Budapest Municipal Museum, Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts, Ottawa National Gallery, Royal Ontario Museum, and Central Public Library, New York City.
Mr. Hornyansky has received many rewards for his work. One award was made by the Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers when a print of his was selected “The Print of the Year” 1940.
Hornyansky has held one man shows in many cities in Europe, Canada, and the United States. He has contributed to the exhibitions of the Royal Canadian Academy, Ontario Society of Arts, Ottawa National Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, California Print-makers, American Academy of Design and the New York World Fair 1939. He died in 1965.

Jack, Richard (1866-1952)
BUArtColl · Person · 1866-1952

Richard Jack, a British painter, was born in Sunderland, County Durham, United Kingdom in 1866. He trained at the York School of Art, Royal College of Art, Académie Julian and Académie Colarossi. In 1886 he won a National Scholarship to the Royal College of Art and in 1888 he won a Royal College of Art gold medal. He painted portraits, figure subjects, interiors and landscapes and was the first official war artist for Canada in 1916. He died in Montréal, Québec in 1952.

Gerrish, D.
BUArtColl · Person · -
Savoie, Robert (1939- )
BUArtColl · Person · 1939-

Born in Québec City in 1939, Robert Savoie studied at the Institute of Graphic Arts and the École des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1957 to 1962. He completed his education at the Chelsea School of Art in London and at the Atelier 17 in Paris, as well as an internship in Scandinavia and a study tour in Japan. He was able to benefit from the financial support of different prizes and scholarships. He was a professor at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1968 to 1970. Robert Savoie’s works are now found in numerous large private and public collections, most notably in the collection of the Université de Sherbrooke .

BUArtColl · Person · 1861-1933

George Horne Russell was born in Banff, Scotland in 1861 - son of George and Susan (Conn) Russell. He made an early career choice and began to study art at a local school. His talent quickly developed and he was sent to the more advanced Aberdeen Art School, where again his progress outpaced the teaching. He moved to London and became a pupil at the celebrated South Kensington Art School, studying under Prof. Legros and Sir George Reid. He was what might be called a "sound" pupil and with native Scottish tenacity acquired a thorough grounding in the technique of his profession. He developed a decided flair for portrait painting and was encouraged to concentrate on that branch of his art.
Russell executed a few local commissions, but was advised by a friend to move to Canada and "grow up with the country." Accordingly in 1889, at the age of twenty-eight, Russell arrived in Montreal, rented a studio, and established himself as a portrait painter. Among his numerous pictures were the portraits of Sir Alexander Lacoste, Dean Goodwin, Dr. Barbour, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Lord Strathcona. His circle of sitters grew wider year by year, but Russell was not content to be exclusively a portrait painter. He had a profound love for the country, and more particularly the sea, which made a constant and irrepressible call to his brush. Happily, in 1909, the Grand Trunk Railway made him an offer to paint the Rockies and the Skeena River district of British Columbia. Russell gladly accepted, spent several months in the Rockies, and, on his return, painted some large and impressive canvases of these "unpaintable mountains," several of which (including the great Mount Robson) were sent to the International Exposition at Brussels. A series of canvases of great size and boldness were the result of the Skeena expedition, the well-known Mount Kitselas and Snowshoe Mountain being considered the finest landscapes of their type that had ever been painted in Canada. Russell always looked upon this western experience as of great importance in his development as a landscape painter. The large size of the canvases demanded a breadth of execution, a simplification of detail and the development of a color-scheme that could be carried across a broad space. While these canvases were frankly commissioned as "portraits of the Rockies," they are by no means uninspired transcriptions of the scene but reveal the vision of an artist who was tremendously impressed by what he saw, and succeeded in transmitting that feeling to the beholder. He went west as an illustrator, but returned as an artist.
It seems to the writer that no artist in Canada had a more ideal life than Horne Russell. Portrait commissions came to him in an endless succession, making him independently secure from the usual hazards of the landscape painter's life. Lover of nature as he was, he could quietly indulge his fondness for painting pastoral scenes and seascapes without concern for a future buyer. An approach to landscape painting of this sincerity, motivated by some obscure inner necessity, could only result in work that had the glow of an inspired artist. The result was that such pictures found an appreciative and patronizing public awaiting them. Russell soon reached the position where he could enjoy the comforts of a country house at St. Andrews by the Sea, where, year after year, he spent the summer. Thus his life alternated delightfully between the painting of duck-ponds, fishing schooners, salty little harbors, ribbed sea-shores breaking waves, blue summer seas and, in the winter, the portraits that awaited him. Could an artist ask for more?
Russell struck no profound chords, attempted no criticism of life, but painted his sitters in attitudes of their external best and seascapes that have the charm of poetry. This attitude could be quite expected from so rounded and well-balanced a personality as Russell possessed. His early Scottish training, his very blood, eschewed any departure from the sane and normal point of view. His portraits pleased his sitters, his landscapes and seascapes are undisturbing and pleasing to live with. Russell was a very successful artist.

His academic confreres recognized his essential soundness, and in 1909 he was elected Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy and in 1919 to full Academician. In 1922, he became President of the R.C.A. He was in many ways admirably suited to this post; his dignified manners, his ability to say a few words extempore, and his long association and familiarity with the routine of the Academy made him an ideal president. In 1924, during the Wembley Exhibition (British Empire Exhibition) he crossed swords with Mr. Eric Brown of the National Gallery on the question of the selection of pictures (and other works) for that show. As President of the Academy, Russell considered that he was upholding the privilege and tradition of the R.C.A. in being the sole selective body for pictures sent for exhibition abroad. In this case, the trustees of the National Gallery, in conjunction with artists they selected, were to decide on the pictures to be sent to London. A vote taken at a general meeting of the academy almost unanimously supported the action of their executives. Russell, in his famous letter to the London Daily Telegraph wrote, "the question is of course, one of principal as to whether laymen or professional artists are the best judges." The result of the controversy had wide ramifications, and a considerable number of the academicians refused to send pictures at all. The smoke of this fire is still in some eyes, and the sort of schism created has not been wholly resolved. It is here mentioned as a matter of biographical record.

Russell had no direct pupils, but his efforts to help and direct young artists were never failing, and he seldom missed a meeting of the Women's Art Society, giving constructive advice and all the help he could. He was a member of the Pen and Pencil Club of Montreal. Russell has a secure footing in the realm of Canadian Art. That he was our greatest marine painter may be readily conceded, and he was undoubtedly one of the best portraitists. He knew and painted some of the most distinguished men of his day, and many of these men will be remembered in their physical aspects by Russell's portrait of them. Some of his marines, painted with enjoyable gusto, touch the edge of greatness while his nocturnes are unique in their poetic imaginative quality. Time alone, which winnows without favor, will assign him his ultimate niche in our halls of fame. It is certain, however, that Russell greatly enriched the art of his adopted country, and brought to many homes some glamour of the sea, some aspect of our natural beauty that would otherwise have been missed.
Russell had a quiet and pleasing personality and during his pilgrimage gathered many friends. He was a born "mixer," and could put a nervous sitter at ease with a few words. He never entirely lost his Scottish accent, and his richly rolled R's reminded one of homespun and heather. He was a friend of Sir William Van Horne and might have changed places with him as a great executive, as Van Horne might have been an artist. He was a "big" man, and one suspected his personality had hidden possibilities of achievement in almost any sphere. His reticence was that of a natural gentleman, with all that that proud and dying word connotes.

After a brief illness, he died at St. Stephen, NB on June 24, 1933, and was buried in St. Andrews NB. He was survived by his widow, Miss Elizabeth Morrison; one son, Norman Wells; and a daughter, Mrs. A. J. Mackenzie of Detroit, MI.

Campbell, Rev. Donald
C001 · Person · fl. 1968-1975

Reverend Donald Campbell was minister at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church from 1968 to 1975.

Copping (famiily)
C002 · Family · fl. 1868-1960

John Alexander Copping (a.k.a. Jack) was born in Rawdon, Quebec in 1868, the son of John Copping and Nancy Marlin. Sarah Alice Mason was born in Rawdon, Quebec in 1873, the daughter of Edward Mason and Mary Copping. John and Alice, as she was known, were married in 1896. Shortly after their marriage, they moved from Rawdon to a farm in Compton Township. Between 1906-1908, they bought a farm at Sand Hill, in Eaton Township. They did not have any children. John died in 1949 and Alice died in 1960.

Annie Mariah Mason, Alice's sister, was born 7 December 1869, the daughter of Edward Mason and Mary Copping. She married John (Jack) Richard Copping in Montreal in 1893. Together, they had two children: Vivian and Rita. The couple lived in Montreal, and in Lennoxville for a brief time. After their separation, Annie returned to Montreal and the children when to live with an aunt and uncle. Annie died 4 December 1965.