Cleeve Horne

Arthur Edward Cleeve Horne
Birth name	Arthur Edward Cleeve Horne
Born	9 January 1912 Jamaica, British West Indies
Died	5 July 1998 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Field	Painter, Sculptor, designer.
Training	Dorothy Dick, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada;
Movement	Post Modern, Contemporary
Works	"William Shakespeare", "Alexander Graham Bell", "Commander A.D. Chilcott"
Influenced by	Emanuel Hahn, Dorothy Dick, John Russell[disambiguation needed ]
Influenced	Myfanwy Pavelic, Christian Cardell Corbet
Awards	Honourary Academician of The Canadian Portrait Academy 2000

Arthur Edward Cleeve Horne, OC, O.Ont, RCA, OSA, SSC, CPA (January 9, 1912 – July 5, 1998) was a Canadian portrait painter and sculptor.

Career

Born in Jamaica, British West Indies, Horne, primarily a society painter, is thought to have painted over 400 portraits during his career ca.(1928–1991). His most notable subjects include Alexander Graham Bell, Claude Bissell, Bora Laskin, Pauline Mills McGibbon, Jeanne Sauvé and John Diefenbaker among many others.

At college he met Jean Harris (a sculpture student); they later married and had three sons. He lived the majority of his life in Toronto, raising himself to the mid-upper ranks of society by wise marketing and excellent business skills.

In Horne's early career, he wanted to become a portrait sculptor and studied under Dorothy Dick, a British sculptor, in 1927. Later he attended the Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada 1931-1934 first studying sculpture under Emanuel Hahn but soon changing to portrait painting. He also studied portrait and landscape painting under John Russell 1934-1935.

He was told by Emanuel Hahn, "A sculptor can never change his hand and become a painter." Horne, however, achieved much more acclaim as a painter than a sculptor.

Hornes' last exhibition whilst he was alive was at the inauguration of the Canadian Portrait Academy First Annual Exhibition held at Vancouver, British Columbia. He was represented by a small portrait in oil of a Vancouver Island woman.

Cleeve Horne died at Toronto, Ontario, Canada of a respiratory-related illness he was in his 87th year.

Since Horne's passing in 1998 some of his portrait paintings have been exhibited across Canada almost yearly with the CPA.

In 1997 Canadian artist Christian Cardell Corbet sculpted an authorized medallion of Cleeve Horne.

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  Cleeve Horne's sculpture of Alexander Graham Bell in front of the Brantford Bell Telephone Building

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  Cleeve Horne's sculpture of Alexander Graham Bell in front of the Brantford Bell Telephone Building

Professional Affiliations

Horne was a member of the Ontario Society of Artists and held position as President from 1949-1951. He was also a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Sculptor’s Society of Canada and the Canadian Portrait Academy.

Awards and honours

• 1934 Awarded the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Painting at the Ontario College of Art (first recipient)
• 1963 Awarded the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's Allied Arts Medal
• 1965 Awarded the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts Medal
• 1967 Awarded the Canadian Centennial Medal
• 1977 Awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal
• 1982 Awarded the Ontario Society of Arts Award
• 1992 Awarded the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal
• 1984 Appointment as "Fellow", Ontario College of Art & Design
• 1987 Appointment to the Order of Ontario
• 1997 Appointed as Honourary Academician of the Canadian Portrait Academy
• 1997 Appointment as Officer of the Order of Canada
• 1999 Named "One of the Top 100 Portrait Artists of the 20th Century by the Canadian Portrait Academy

References

• "Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry". University of Toronto Press. http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=horan&t=7842&d=1892. Retrieved June 1, 2006. 
• "The governor General of Canada". http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=3691. 

External links

• Official website
• Canadian Portrait Academy [1]

Persondata
Name	Horne, Cleeve
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	9 January 1912
Place of birth	Jamaica, British West Indies
Date of death	5 July 1998
Place of death	Toronto, Ontario, Canada