Alex Colville - Wikipedia
WEBDavid 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.
Alex Colville - 76 artworks - painting - WikiArt.org
WEBView all 76 artworks. Alex Colville lived in the XX – XXI cent., a remarkable figure of Canadian Precisionism and Contemporary Realism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Alex Colville | Official site of Canadian artist Alex Colville
WEBJun 17, 2000 · About Alex Colville. 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 ...
Alex Colville | National Gallery of Canada
WEBPainter, draughtsman, engraver and muralist, Alex Colville always remained aloof from the formal trends that characterized the 20th century.
Alex Colville | Art Canada Institute
WEBEast coast artist, Alex Colville (1920–2013) developed an iconic, personal realist style, painting his family, the landscape and his pets. Read his biography here.
Alex Colville P.C., C.C., O.N.S. | Alex Colville
WEBAlex Colville P.C., C.C., O.N.S. Graduates from Mount Allison University, Sackville, N.B. with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Enlists in the Canadian Army. Marries Rhoda Wright, 5 August. Second son, John Harrower is born. Alex begins teaching at Mount Allison University.
Alex Colville, Leading Canadian Artist, Dies at 92
WEBJul 22, 2013 · Alex Colville, a celebrated Canadian painter who revealed emotional and cultural tension in his spare and precise depictions of moments that might otherwise seem mundane — a middle-aged kiss ...
Alex Colville: Of dogs, guns and bathers - National Gallery of …
WEBApr 20, 2015 · Canadian painter Alex Colville was a lover of dogs and other animals. They are main characters in some of his most memorable paintings. A hound runs in a wintry field. A black horse gallops towards the open gate of …
Alex Colville | MoMA
WEBDavid Alexander Colville, LL. D. (24 August 1920 – 16 July 2013) was a Canadian painter and printmaker. Studied at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, receiving a BFA in 1942, after which he entered the Canadian Army.
Alex Colville | Biography, Paintings & Themes | Britannica
WEBJul 12, 2024 · Alex Colville (born August 24, 1920, Toronto, Ontario, Canada—died July 16, 2013, Wolfville, Nova Scotia) was a Canadian painter whose detailed works depicted everyday subject matter and possessed a mysterious, mythic quality that belied psychological acuity.
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