David Lloyd Blackwood RCA OSA CPE CSPWC CSGA (1941-Present)
Title: The Burged Whale - A Whale for the Killing
Medium: Colour Etching and Aquatint
Period: Dated 1972
Size:
22” x 16”
Price: SOLD
David
Blackwood was born in Wesleyville, Newfoundland, and is a descendant of a long
line of fishing skippers and sealing captains. He received a scholarship to
study art at the Ontario College of Art and studied under such masters as Carl
Schaefer, John Alfsen, J.W.G. MacDonald and Fred Hagan. He graduated in 1963
with many honours and awards, including a travelling scholarship to visit major
museums and galleries in the United States. He was appointed Art Master at
Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario while teaching graphics at the OCA
from 1963-64. He spent the next five years in his own studio on Spadina Ave. in
Toronto, followed by an artist-in-residence program at the University of Toronto
from 1969-1975. He has held solo shows at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Heffel
Gallery, Robertson Gallery and many others. He has won numerous awards including
the Government of France Ingres Medal, the Purchase Award from the National
Gallery of Canada, the Purchase Award from the National Gallery of Australia and
many others around the world. He was elected a member of the Royal Canadian
Academy in 1975, the Ontario Society of Artists in 1970, the Canadian Society of
Painter-Etchers and Engravers (1966), the Canadian Society of Graphic Artists
(1967), the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour (1971), the Print and
Drawing council of Canada (1976) and the Colour and Form Society (1967). His
works are in the collection of the HRH Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, HRH
Prince Phillip, National Gallery of Canada, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the London
Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hart House in the University of
Toronto, McMaster University, the Art Gallery of Windsor, Queen's University,
the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, McGill University, the New Brunswick
Museum, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the Confederation Art Gallery, the City of
St. John's Newfoundland and many more. His work is also in the following
corporate collections: TD Bank, The Toronto Star, Crown Life Insurance, Shell
Oil, Pepsi Cola, Redpath Sugar, Labatt's Breweries, Dofasco Steel, Chase
Manhattan Bank in New York City and many others around the
world.
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