Joseph Purcell

Joseph Purcell

Joseph Douglas Purcell (born 1927 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian artist.

Career

He studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art. He began exhibiting early in his career including at the Granville Galleries in 1947. It was in the summer of 1947 that Purcell shared a studio with fellow artist and former classmate Jack L. Gray in New Harbour, Nova Scotia. He completed a series of murals for the private salons in the Westin Nova Scotian hotel in Halifax and the Victoria General Hospital.

He moved to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia in 1953 with his wife Tela Purcell, who is also a noted painter and together they opened the Purcell Family Art Gallery in 1971. Joseph Purcell’s paintings at numerous other traveling shows in Montreal, Ottawa, New York and London, England. A collection of his work is held at the Silver Dart in Baddeck, Cape Breton.

External links

* [http://www.northshorecanadianart.com/PurcellLunenburg.htm Bio]


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