- Goodridge Roberts
William Goodridge Roberts (1904-1974) was a Canadian painter known for his landscape paintings and unassuming still-lifes and interiors.
Goodridge Roberts was the son of poet and novelist Theodore Goodridge Roberts and Frances Seymour Allen. Roberts was born in
Barbados in 1904 while his parent were on holiday from theirNew Brunswick home.Roberts studied at the École des Beaux Arts de Montréal and at the Art League in New York. From 1933 to 1936 was the resident artist at Queen's University. In 1938 Roberts joined the
Eastern Group of Painters , and in 1939 he exhibited at the New York World's Fair. He taught at theMontreal Museum of Fine Arts from 1940 to 1952. During the period from 1943 to 1945 he was an official war artist for the Royal Canadian Air Force.A scholarship was awarded (in 1953) by the Canadian government to allow Roberts to study painting in France. Then in 1959 he won the Glaxebrook award at the National Gallery of Canada for a landscape painting. This year (1959) until 1960 Roberts was the resident artist at the University of New Brunwick.
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Canadian abcde Painting 1939 to 1963, an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada at the Tate Gallery London, 1964
* [http://collections.ic.gc.ca/bank_art/rober.htm Biography]
* [http://national.gallery.ca/english/library/biblio/ngc018.html National Gallery of Canada Bio.]
* [http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/artwar/artists/goodridge-roberts_e.html War Museum Art and War]
* [http://www.ago.net/info/collection/artist.cfm?artist_id=145&collection_id=4 Art Gallery of Ontario]
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