Alex Colville, Self Portrait, 1940, oil on board, 118 x 89 cm, private collection.
Alex Colville's 90th birthday on August 24, 2010 is an excellent reason to celebrate the life and the art of one of Atlantic Canada's most renowned artists.. (Sleeper, 1975; Fête Champêtre, 1984; Snow, 1969; and Sunrise, 1970), his pets (Artist and Cat, 1979), and the landscape near his home (Crow with Silver Spoon, 1972; Border Collie.
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David Alexander Colville (1920-2013) was a Canadian painter, muralist, printmaker, and draftsman. Although he was born in Toronto, Ontario, he grew up in Amherst, Nova Scotia, and, from 1938 to 1942, he attended Mount Allison University, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He went on to serve in the military, working as a Canadian.
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The pictures of Canadian artist Alex Colville bear more affinity to the American Precisionists of the 1930s than to photo-realism. His perfect compositions are based on an abundance of sketches and studies, which are first brought into an abstract, geometric scheme before drawings are made from the live model and proportioned according to the planned format.
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Alex Colville, To Prince Edward Island, 1965. (Detail) Alex Colville. The Canadian art world is mourning the death of master painter Alex Colville. Colville, who died Tuesday at the age of 92 in.
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Title: Snow Artist: Alex Colville (Canadian, born 1920) Date: 1969 Medium: Serigraph Dimensions: Sheet: 25 11/16 × 19 3/4 in. (65.2 × 50.2 cm) Image: 24 × 18 in. (60.9 × 45.7 cm) Classification: Prints Credit Line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1970 Accession Number: 1970.565.25 Learn more about this artwork Drawings and Prints at The Met
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David Alexander Colville was born in Toronto on Aug. 24, 1920. His family moved to Nova Scotia in 1929. He received a bachelor's degree in fine arts at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick.
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Alex Colville Date: 1967 Style: Contemporary Realism Genre: genre painting Tags: Vehicle Alex Colville Famous works Horse and Train • 1954 Couple on Beach • 1957 Woman at Clothesline • 1957 Athletes • 1960 To Prince Edward Island • 1965 In the Woods • 1976 Dog and Priest • 1978 May • 1979 View all 76 artworks Related Artworks Court Métrage
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David Alexander Colville, PC CC ONS LL. D. (24 August 1920 - 16 July 2013) was a Canadian painter and printmaker. Early life and war artist Colville House, Mount Allison University Born in 1920 in Toronto, Ontario, Colville moved with his family at age seven to St. Catharines, and then to Amherst, Nova Scotia, in 1929.
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December 7, 2012 Alex Colville was born in Toronto in 1920, and received a bachelor of fine arts degree from Mount Allison University in 1942. Colville enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces under the War Artist Program and was deployed to Europe for four years.
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Alex Colville (born August 24, 1920, Toronto, Ontario, Canada—died July 16, 2013, Wolfville, Nova Scotia) Canadian painter whose detailed works depicted everyday subject matter and possessed a mysterious, mythic quality that belied psychological acuity.
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Alex Colville, Snow, 1969, serigraph on wove paper, 65.3 x 50 cm; image: 61 x 45.5 cm, National Gallery of Canada. The National Gallery of Canada is home to one of the finest collections of Indigenous and Canadian art in the world, and is dedicated to amplifying voices through art.
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Download East coast artist, Alex Colville (1920-2013) developed an iconic, personal realist style, painting his family, the landscape and his pets. Read his biography here.
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Alex Colville, Target Pistol and Man, 1980, acrylic polymer emulsion on hardboard, 60 x 60 cm
Alex Colville's work represents one of the most coherent bodies of painting in Canadian art history, a sustained look at basic philosophic issues that remained central to his practice from 1950 until his final painting in 2010. Alex Colville, Skater, 1964, synthetic polymer paint on composition board, 113 x 69.8 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New.
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Allex Colville, one of the great modem realist painters, has the Flemish detail of Andrew Wyeth, the eerie foreboding of George Tooker, and the anguished confrontations of Lucian Freud. Behind the North Americans stands their common master, Edward Hopper.
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David Alexander Colville, PC CC ONS (24 August 1920 - 16 July 2013) was a Canadian painter. Born in 1920 in Toronto, Ontario, Colville moved with his family at age seven to St. Catharines, and then to Amherst, Nova Scotia in 1929. He attended Mount Allison University from 1938 to 1942, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.