David Alexander Colville, PC CC ONS (1920 – 2013) was a Canadian painter. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he 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, where he studied under Canadian Post-Impressionists like Stanley Royle and Sarah Hart, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. in 1942 he enlisted in the Canadian Army. He enlisted in the infantry, eventually earning the rank of lieutenant. He painted in Yorkshire and took part in the Royal Canadian Navy's landings in southern France. He was then attached to the 3rd Canadian Division. After being in the army for two years, and because he was a fine-arts student, he was made a war artist in May 1944. His unit relieved the 82nd Airborne Division at Nijmegen, the Netherlands in mid-September 1944. He continued on to tours in the Netherlands and Germany, where he was also tasked with depicting the horrors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Colville had some success while still enrolled at Mount Allison, exhibiting at the Art Association of Montreal (now the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts) in 1941, and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1942. After the war, Colville returned to New Brunswick and became a faculty member with the Fine Arts Department at Mount Allison University. He taught there from 1946 to 1963. He left teaching to devote himself to painting and print-making full-time from a studio in his home on York Street; this building is now named Colville House. In 1967, Colville was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, elevated to Companion in 1982, the order's highest level. He lived in St. Catharines, Ontario, for three years before moving to Nova Scotia. In 1973, he moved his family to his wife's hometown of Wolfville, where they lived and worked in the house that her father built and in which she was born. The Colvilles had three sons, a daughter, and eight grandchildren. In contrast to many of his contemporaries, Colville aligned himself with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and was a card-carrying party member for many years. In 1981 he was appointed university chancellor of Acadia University serving in that role until 1991. Colville exhibited extensively across Canada and internationally including at the Tate Gallery in London and the Beijing Exhibition Centre in Beijing. In 1983 an internationally touring retrospective of his work was organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario. Alex Colville's work is found in many collections including the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Cape Breton University Art Gallery in Sydney, Nova Scotia, the New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne and the Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover, Germany. © 2020. All content on this blog is protected by international copyright laws All images are copyrighted © by David Alexander Colville or assignee. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only Mr. David Alexander Colville 1945, Tragic Landscape 1946, The Nijmegen Bridge, Holland 1953, Man on Verandah 1953, Soldier and Girl at Station 1954, Horse and Train 1954, Three Sheep 1955, Family and Rainstorm 1958, Child Skipping 1958, Hound in Field 1958, The Swimming Race 1960, Athletes 1962, Departure 1962, Ocean Limited 1963, Moon and Cow 1963, Woman and Terrier 1964, Church and Horse 1964, Skater 1965, To Prince Edward Island 1967, Pacific 1967, Snow Plow 1978, Berlin Bus 1978, Dog and Priest January 1979 February 1979 March 1979 April 1979 May 1979 June 1979 July 1979 August 1979 September 1979 October 1979 November 1979 November 1979 1981, Cyclist and Crow 1984, Fête champêtre 1992, Traveller 2000, Living Room 2003, Waterville 2008, Artist and Car
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David Alexander Colville, painter (born 24 Aug 1920 in Toronto, Ontario died 16 July 2013 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia). Alex Colville moved with his family to Amherst, NS, in 1929 and studied at Mount Allison (1938-42). On graduating he joined the army and in 1944 was sent to Europe as a war artist. He returned to Canada late in 1945 and worked in Ottawa on paintings based on his European sketches and watercolours until his demobilization in 1946.
David Alexander Colville, painter (born 24 Aug 1920 in Toronto, Ontario died 16 July 2013 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia). Alex Colville moved with his family to Amherst, NS, in 1929 and studied at Mount Allison (1938-42). On graduating he joined the army and in 1944 was sent to Europe as a war artist. He returned to Canada late in 1945 and worked in Ottawa on paintings based on his European sketches and watercolours until his demobilization in 1946.
David Alexander Colville, PC CC ONS (1920 – 2013) was a Canadian painter. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he 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, where he studied under Canadian Post-Impressionists like Stanley Royle and Sarah Hart, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. in 1942 he enlisted in the Canadian Army. He enlisted in the infantry, eventually earning the rank of lieutenant. He painted in Yorkshire and took part in the Royal Canadian Navy's landings in southern France. He was then attached to the 3rd Canadian Division. After being in the army for two years, and because he was a fine-arts student, he was made a war artist in May 1944. His unit relieved the 82nd Airborne Division at Nijmegen, the Netherlands in mid-September 1944. He continued on to tours in the Netherlands and Germany, where he was also tasked with depicting the horrors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Colville had some success while still enrolled at Mount Allison, exhibiting at the Art Association of Montreal (now the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts) in 1941, and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1942. After the war, Colville returned to New Brunswick and became a faculty member with the Fine Arts Department at Mount Allison University. He taught there from 1946 to 1963. He left teaching to devote himself to painting and print-making full-time from a studio in his home on York Street; this building is now named Colville House. In 1967, Colville was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, elevated to Companion in 1982, the order's highest level. He lived in St. Catharines, Ontario, for three years before moving to Nova Scotia. In 1973, he moved his family to his wife's hometown of Wolfville, where they lived and worked in the house that her father built and in which she was born. The Colvilles had three sons, a daughter, and eight grandchildren. In contrast to many of his contemporaries, Colville aligned himself with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and was a card-carrying party member for many years. In 1981 he was appointed university chancellor of Acadia University serving in that role until 1991. Colville exhibited extensively across Canada and internationally including at the Tate Gallery in London and the Beijing Exhibition Centre in Beijing. In 1983 an internationally touring retrospective of his work was organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario. Alex Colville's work is found in many collections including the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Cape Breton University Art Gallery in Sydney, Nova Scotia, the New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne and the Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover, Germany. © 2020. All content on this blog is protected by international copyright laws All images are copyrighted © by David Alexander Colville or assignee. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only Mr. David Alexander Colville 1945, Tragic Landscape 1946, The Nijmegen Bridge, Holland 1953, Man on Verandah 1953, Soldier and Girl at Station 1954, Horse and Train 1954, Three Sheep 1955, Family and Rainstorm 1958, Child Skipping 1958, Hound in Field 1958, The Swimming Race 1960, Athletes 1962, Departure 1962, Ocean Limited 1963, Moon and Cow 1963, Woman and Terrier 1964, Church and Horse 1964, Skater 1965, To Prince Edward Island 1967, Pacific 1967, Snow Plow 1978, Berlin Bus 1978, Dog and Priest January 1979 February 1979 March 1979 April 1979 May 1979 June 1979 July 1979 August 1979 September 1979 October 1979 November 1979 November 1979 1981, Cyclist and Crow 1984, Fête champêtre 1992, Traveller 2000, Living Room 2003, Waterville 2008, Artist and Car
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Woman and Terrier, 1963 Canadian icon Alex Colville died on Tuesday at his home in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. He was 92. In a 2003 interview Colville told The Chronicle Herald: "My family has been my principle interest - including dogs...
David Alexander Colville, PC CC ONS (1920 – 2013) was a Canadian painter. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he 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, where he studied under Canadian Post-Impressionists like Stanley Royle and Sarah Hart, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. in 1942 he enlisted in the Canadian Army. He enlisted in the infantry, eventually earning the rank of lieutenant. He painted in Yorkshire and took part in the Royal Canadian Navy's landings in southern France. He was then attached to the 3rd Canadian Division. After being in the army for two years, and because he was a fine-arts student, he was made a war artist in May 1944. His unit relieved the 82nd Airborne Division at Nijmegen, the Netherlands in mid-September 1944. He continued on to tours in the Netherlands and Germany, where he was also tasked with depicting the horrors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Colville had some success while still enrolled at Mount Allison, exhibiting at the Art Association of Montreal (now the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts) in 1941, and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1942. After the war, Colville returned to New Brunswick and became a faculty member with the Fine Arts Department at Mount Allison University. He taught there from 1946 to 1963. He left teaching to devote himself to painting and print-making full-time from a studio in his home on York Street; this building is now named Colville House. In 1967, Colville was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, elevated to Companion in 1982, the order's highest level. He lived in St. Catharines, Ontario, for three years before moving to Nova Scotia. In 1973, he moved his family to his wife's hometown of Wolfville, where they lived and worked in the house that her father built and in which she was born. The Colvilles had three sons, a daughter, and eight grandchildren. In contrast to many of his contemporaries, Colville aligned himself with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and was a card-carrying party member for many years. In 1981 he was appointed university chancellor of Acadia University serving in that role until 1991. Colville exhibited extensively across Canada and internationally including at the Tate Gallery in London and the Beijing Exhibition Centre in Beijing. In 1983 an internationally touring retrospective of his work was organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario. Alex Colville's work is found in many collections including the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Cape Breton University Art Gallery in Sydney, Nova Scotia, the New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne and the Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover, Germany. © 2020. All content on this blog is protected by international copyright laws All images are copyrighted © by David Alexander Colville or assignee. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only Mr. David Alexander Colville 1945, Tragic Landscape 1946, The Nijmegen Bridge, Holland 1953, Man on Verandah 1953, Soldier and Girl at Station 1954, Horse and Train 1954, Three Sheep 1955, Family and Rainstorm 1958, Child Skipping 1958, Hound in Field 1958, The Swimming Race 1960, Athletes 1962, Departure 1962, Ocean Limited 1963, Moon and Cow 1963, Woman and Terrier 1964, Church and Horse 1964, Skater 1965, To Prince Edward Island 1967, Pacific 1967, Snow Plow 1978, Berlin Bus 1978, Dog and Priest January 1979 February 1979 March 1979 April 1979 May 1979 June 1979 July 1979 August 1979 September 1979 October 1979 November 1979 November 1979 1981, Cyclist and Crow 1984, Fête champêtre 1992, Traveller 2000, Living Room 2003, Waterville 2008, Artist and Car
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Painted in California, an image of a handgun on a sewing table and a man, back towards us, looking at the sea shows Alex Colville’s ongoing interest in existentialism.
David Alexander Colville, painter (born 24 Aug 1920 in Toronto, Ontario died 16 July 2013 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia). Alex Colville moved with his family to Amherst, NS, in 1929 and studied at Mount Allison (1938-42).
An ambitious survey of a Canadian master’s six-decade career, the Art Gallery of Ontario’s 110-painting Alex Colville exhibit, writes James Adams, aims to enlighten but manages to exhaust
Pointillist brushwork and meticulous composition make Alex Colville’s figurative, allegorical paintings instantly recognizable. Read about his distinctive style here.
Pointillist brushwork and meticulous composition make Alex Colville’s figurative, allegorical paintings instantly recognizable. Read about his distinctive style here.
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The Art Canada Institute values each of the individuals and institutions that helped us create the Alex Colville art book. See our acknowledgements & credits.
In the '80s, Alex Colville came in for no small amount of criticism, and also received fresh examinations of his work as a war artist.
Harbour, a painting by renowned Nova Scotia artist Alex Colville, sold for $1.88 million, more than double the estimated price, auction house president David Heffel said Thursday.
Alex Colville shows his debt to Renaissance painters in this image of three girls, framed by a wharf structure, disrobing for a swim as if they were the three graces.
Alex Colville, pintor canadiense, fue profesor en la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad de Mount Allison durante casi veinte años (desde 1946 hasta 1963) hasta que decidió dedicarse completamente a la pintura. Está considerado por la mayoría de la crítica artística como uno de los pintores canadienses más relevantes. Aunque no es fácil decir exactamente por qué, Colville resulta un pintor extremadamente "nórdico" (considerado el norte como contraposición a un mundo vital tan diferente -y a veces incluso contrapuesto- al que entendemos como sur): sus tonos, sus temperaturas, su estética y, también, la experiencia vital que nos muestra, lo refieren constantemente hacia esos matices sutiles pero esenciales que lo identifican -al menos desde mi punto de vista- como norteño (con la indudable fascinación que eso tiene) https://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=1087 http://www.alexcolville.ca/ http://www.welcometocolville.ca/war-artist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M29Dx2thLQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuMTfh0dXG0 http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/alex-colville.htm http://www.gallery.ca/colville/en/ http://www.mta.ca/owens/colville/visit/index.php https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yivF7UB7rw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkJGC98wh50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GJuEqaelpY Todas las imágenes y/o vídeos que se muestran corresponden al artista o artistas referenciados. Su exposición en este blog pretende ser un homenaje y una contribución a la difusión de obras dignas de reconocimiento cultural, sin ninguna merma a los derechos que correspondan a sus legítimos propietarios. En ningún caso hay en este blog interés económico directo ni indirecto. Javier Nebot
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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.
The Art Canada Institute values each of the individuals and institutions that helped us create the Alex Colville art book. See our acknowledgements & credits.
