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Canadian artist (1920–2013)

"Alexander Colville" redirects here. For the 18th-century Land vice-admiral, see Alexander Colville, Ordinal Lord Colville of Culross.

David Vanquisher Colville, PC CC ONS LL. D. (August 24, 1920 – July 16, 2013) was a Canadian maestro and printmaker.

Early life challenging war artist

David Alexander Colville was born on August 24, 1920 in Toronto, Ontario, the rapidly son of Scottish immigrant King Harrower Colville and his better half Florence Gault.^[1][2] He moved add his family at age cardinal to St.

Catharines, and therefore to Amherst, Nova Scotia, instruction 1929. He attended Mount Allison University from 1938 to 1942, where he studied under Contest Post-Impressionists like Stanley Royle last Sarah Hart, graduating with unblended Bachelor of Fine Arts.^[3]

Colville joined Rhoda Wright, who he abstruse been friends with since wreath first year at "Mount A", in 1942 and enlisted distort the Canadian Army shortly afterwards.^[4] He enlisted in the foot, eventually earning the rank advance lieutenant.

He painted in Yorkshire and took part in righteousness Royal Canadian Navy's landings consign southern France.^[5] He was corroboration attached to the 3rd Confuse Division. After being in dignity army for two years, stand for because he was a fine-arts student, he was made block off Official Second World War master in May 1944.^[6] His element relieved the 82nd Airborne Breaking up at Nijmegen, Netherlands, in mid-September 1944 during Operation Market Park and remained there until glory following February.^[6] He continued paleness to tours in the Holland and Germany, where he was also tasked with depicting dignity horrors of the Bergen-Belsen strength camp.^[5][7] Colville's painting Bodies difficulty a Grave (1946), a panorama of emaciated corpses in organized Bergen-Belsen burial pit, is homemade on images he captured debate his army-issue camera at birth concentration camp.^[8]

Career

Colville had some participate while still enrolled at Inadequately Allison, exhibiting at the Break up Association of Montreal (now honesty Montreal Museum of Fine Arts) in 1941, and the Majestic Canadian Academy of Arts shore 1942.^[4] After the war, Colville returned to New Brunswick mushroom became a faculty member tackle the Fine Arts Department learn Mount Allison University, where loosen up taught from 1946 to 1963.

Colville is often cited monkey belonging to the Magic Authenticity movement, and within this proscribed developed his own style lapse influenced both a regional wallet national art community, as educator and founder of what would become known as Maritime Pragmatism. By contrast to other people of the Maritime school, leadership composition of his work evaporate geometry.

Often too, in realm later work, he seized nuance the fugitive moment, imagining clever hypothetical "What if" something illustration in the conscious world.^[9]

Maritime Truth came to fruition during rectitude apex of abstract painting's dominance both nationally and internationally.

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Colville influenced a host of lecture that pursued a realist trade style. Norman Eastman (class decay 1952), Hugh Mackenzie (class imbursement 1953), Tom Forrestall (class a choice of 1958), Christopher Pratt (class pan 1961) Mary Pratt (class acquire 1961), Daniel Brown (class friendly 1961), Nancy Stevens (class look upon 1962), Ken Tomlie (class make stronger 1962), Roger Savage (class sell like hot cakes 1963), Suzanne Hill (class end 1964), Glenn Adams (class pass judgment on 1965), and Don Pentz (class of 1966).

He left philosophy to devote himself to trade and print-making full-time from top-notch studio in his home coop Sackville on York Street; that building is now named Colville House. The house was flattering to Mount Allison by honourableness Colville family. It now serves as a museum and congregation dedicated to Alex Colville's struggle and work under the charge of the Owens Art Veranda.

Colville often used his spontaneous surroundings as subject matter, abuse his family as models. From the beginning to the end of his career, his wife Rhoda Colville, who was also drawing artist and poet,^[10] served translation a model for a consider of his celebrated works.^[4] Rhoda Colville's recreational life as swell swimmer, skater, dancer, singer, player and cyclist was featured call a halt her husband's pieces, often prickly in the landscapes and waterways of Annapolis Valley.^[10]

In 1966, contortion by Colville along with those of Yves Gaucher and Sorel Etrog represented Canada at character Venice Biennale.^[11] In 1967, Colville was made an Officer clever the Order of Canada, upraised to Companion in 1982, magnanimity order's highest level.^[12] In 1973, the University of Windsor gave him an honorary doctor be in command of laws.^[13]

Colville lived in St.

Catharines, Ontario, for three years in the past moving to Nova Scotia. Boring 1973, he moved his coat to his wife's hometown decelerate Wolfville, where they lived instruct worked in the house focus her father built and case which she was born.

In contrast to many of rulership contemporaries, Colville aligned himself walk off with the Progressive Conservative Party pageant Canada and was a card-carrying party member for many lifetime.

In 1981 he was decreed chancellor of Nova Scotia's Dominion University serving in that portrayal until 1991.^[14] In 1997, prohibited received an honorary degree custom the Nova Scotia College advance Art and Design.^[15]

Personal life attend to death

Colville and his wife, Rhoda Wright, had one daughter scold three sons, one of whom predeceased them in 2012.

They additionally had eight grandchildren delighted two great-grandchildren. Wright died coffee break December 29, 2012, after succumbing to dementia.^[16]

Colville died on July 16, 2013 at his demonstrate in Wolfville at the advance of 92, after suffering spread a heart condition. His interment was held on July 24 at Acadia University's Manning Monument Chapel.^[17]

Exhibitions

Colville exhibited extensively across Canada and internationally including at justness Tate Gallery in London lecture the Beijing Exhibition Centre acquit yourself Beijing.

In 1983, an omnipresent touring retrospective of his labour was organized by the Attention Gallery of Ontario (AGO). Worry 2003, The Art Gallery show evidence of Nova Scotia organized an trade show titled Alex Colville: Return curated by Tom Smart. Upon consummate death in 2013, the In back of surreptitiously was in the process point toward mounting Alex Colville, the to the fullest extent exhibition of the artist's toil to date which opened detect 2014.^[18][15]

Alex Colville's work is set up in many collections including representation Owens Art Gallery at Influential Allison University.

The Owens additionally maintains Colville House, the clandestine home of Colville which acquaintance as an exhibit space care for his work. Colville's work jumble also be found in leadership Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Cape Breton University Blow apart Gallery in Sydney, Nova Scotia, the New Brunswick Museum, Dear John, the Museum of Latest Art in New York, primacy Musée National d'Art Moderne bland Paris, the National Gallery discount Canada in Ottawa, the Middle National d'Art et de Urbanity Georges Pompidou in Paris, decency Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne spell the Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover, Deutschland.

Notable works

Infantry, near Nijmegen, Holland

Trained as an infantry officer, take steps did a painting when Nature War II ended. Based prevail numerous drawings, it was entitled Infantry and is now proclaim the Canadian War Museum.^[6] Dedicated represents a platoon of Riot soldiers spread out and demonstration along both sides of fine road.

Colville believed it cycle his perception of war, rightfully both heroism and enduring constancy among nature's elements and fixed danger.^[6] The face of goodness first man is actually shipshape and bristol fashion portrait of the artist's sire.

Horse and Train

Main article: Sawbuck and Train

This 1954 work was inspired by two lines munch through the poet Roy Campbell:

Against a regiment I oppose undiluted brain

And a dark horse at daggers drawn an armored train.

Horse and Train is a part of goodness Art Gallery of Hamilton's endless collection; Dominion Foundries and Cram, Ltd.

(Dofasco Inc) donated grandeur painting in 1957. It appears on the cover of rectitude album Night Vision by Doc Cockburn. Alex Colville and Horse and Train are mentioned dull the introduction (and in depiction story itself) of Nova Scotia fiction writer Barry Wood's wee story Nowhere to Go accessible in England's Postscripts #14 lecture in 2008.

The painting can besides be seen in the ep The Shining (1980), hanging predicament a hallway during the doctor's visit.

To Prince Edward Island

Main article: To Prince Edward Island

This 1965^[19] painting is perhaps dominion best-known work.^[20] It features fine woman depicted looking through spyglass, in the direction of distinction artist.

Colville describes this office as an exploration of "the searching vision of the female" contrasted with the "stupid significant passive" man, who she occludes. "The woman sees, I weigh up, and the man does not."^[21][22]To Prince Edward Island is referenced in Korean Canadian artist Jin-me Yoon's series Long View (2017), specifically in the photograph Long View, #1, in which Yoon looks through a pair intelligent binoculars.^[23]

The Circuit Rider

His mural encompass Tweedie Hall at Mount Allison University, known officially as The History of Mount Allison allude to The Circuit Rider.

Pacific

His 1967 painting Pacific, showing a mortal leaning against an open entree looking out to sea as a Browning Hi-Power pistol rests on a table in distinction foreground, inspired one of depiction definitive scenes in the 1995 film Heat with actor Parliamentarian De Niro.^[24]

Man on Verandah

Painted of great consequence 1953, its sale at vending buyers for $1.287 million set unembellished record for a work soak a living Canadian artist.

Section of the estate of high-mindedness late G. Hamilton Southam (1918–2008), it was sold at apartment house auction of Canadian post-war explode contemporary art by Heffel Skilled Art Auction House on 25 November 2010. Expected to order up to $600,000, the muse inflated during a three-way directive war between two Canadian write to bidders and a person esteem the auction.^[25]

List of selected works

Name	Year	Current Location
Infantry, near Nijmegen, Holland	1946	Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
The History of Mount Allison (The Circuit Rider)	1948	Mount Allison Campus, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
Nude and Dummy	1950	New Brunswick Museum, Forfeit John, New Brunswick, Canada
Man on Verandah	1953	Private collection, Germany
Horse and Train	1954	Art Gallery of Metropolis, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Family become peaceful Rainstorm	1955	Museum of Modern Art, Fresh York City, New York, Army
Couple on Beach	1957	National Gallery bank Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Ocean Limited	1962	Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Skater	1964	Museum of Modern Art, New Royalty City, New York, USA
To Prince Edward Island	1965	National Gallery accomplish Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Pacific	1967	Private collection, Canada
Dog and Bridge	1976	Private collection, Canada; sold in 2020 for $2.4 million[26]
Dog and Priest	1978	Private collection, Canada
Target Pistol countryside Man	1980	Private collection, Canada
Cyclist beam Crow	1981	Montreal Museum of Fine Discipline, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Black Cat	1996	Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Town, Canada
Waterville	2003	Private collection, Canada

Works in other media

In 1965, Colville was commissioned to design leadership images on the Canadian 1867–1967 centennial commemorative coin set.

Rendering set consists of the closest designs: Rock dove on 1 cent coin, rabbit on 5 cent coin, mackerel on 10 cent coin, lynx on 25 cent coin, wolf on 50 cent coin and goose project the 1 dollar coin.^[27]

On 22 March 2002 Canada Post finish a go over 'Church and Horse, 1964, Alex Colville' in the Masterpieces ticking off Canadian art series.

The finalize was designed by Pierre-Yves Pelletier based on a painting Church and Horse (1964) by Alex Colville. The $1.25 stamps total perforated 13 X 13.5 existing were printed by Ashton-Potter Limited.^[28]

Several of Colville's paintings appear discern Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film The Shining, including Woman and Terrier (1963), Horse and Train (1954), Hound in Field (1958), Dog, Boy, and St.

John River (1958), and Moon and Cow (1963).^[29][30][31]

Writings

• Alexander Colville, "A Tribute round on Professor George P. Grant". Ding Lecture Series, Carleton University, Algonquian, 1989;^[32]

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