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Espialite, original,
1972,
watercolour on paper
26 x 20 in, 66.04 x 50.8 cm |
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Spring Night, original, 1972,
watercolour on paper
20 x 26 in, 50.8 x 66.04 cm |
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Treble glow colour, original, 1972,
watercolour on paper
26 x 20 in, 66.04 x 50.8 cm |
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Kenneth Lochhead
Born in
Ottawa, 1926 – 2006
Kenneth Lochhead was one of the famous REGINA FIVE, a group of Canadian abstract
painters who achieved renown in 1961 for a landmark exhibition presented at the National
Gallery of Canada that subsequently toured across the country.
Lochhead studied art at Queen's University, the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts (Philadelphia) and the Barnes Foundation (Merion, PA). In 1950, he
was appointed Director of the School of Art, Regina College, University of Saskatchewan.
While in Saskatchewan, he founded the Visiting Artist Workshops at Emma Lake, which helped
connect Regina with the wider art world.
Lochhead
taught at the University of Manitoba 1964-73, York University 1973-74 and University of
Ottawa from 1975 to 1989.
In the
1970s he reintroduced recognizable subject matter into paintings that nevertheless
remained largely intuitive, colourist exercises.
Lochhead's contribution as an artist and
educator was affirmed by several notable commissions and awards, including the Order of
Canada in 1971 and a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2006. Major
survey exhibitions of his paintings were organized by the Art Gallery of Windsor in 1977
and the MacKenzie Gallery in 2005.
Since 1953, Lochhead's varied works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in both
public and private galleries in Canada and abroad.
Text copied directly from Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media
Arts:
Announcement of winners (http://news.gc.ca/cfmx/view/en/
index.jsp?articleid=201229&); and, The Canadian
Encyclopedia (http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm?
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