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Arthur Shilling BIOGRAPHY
1941 Rama Reserve near Orilla, Ontario - 1986 Rama, Reserve near Orilla, Ontario. Known for: Portrait and landscape painting.
Arthur Shilling (1941 - 1986). Arthur Shilling was a painter, illustrator and author who was born, and died (as a result of complications from rheumatic fever), on the Rama Reserve near Orilla,... Read full biography
Arthur Shilling (1941 - 1986). Arthur Shilling was a painter, illustrator and author who was born, and died (as a result of complications from rheumatic fever), on the Rama Reserve near Orilla, Ontario, and except for a brief period in the late 1960's and early 1970's, lived there most of his life.... Read full biography
Arthur Shilling (1941 - 1986). Arthur Shilling was a painter, illustrator and author who was born, and died (as a result of complications from rheumatic fever), on the Rama Reserve near Orilla, Ontario, and except for a brief period in the late 1960's and early 1970's, lived there most of his life. His medium was primarily oil on masonite or canvas, however he has also worked in pastel, watercolor and pencil. His subjects are portraits and landscapes. His style was expressionist characterized... Read full biography
Arthur Shilling (1941 - 1986). Arthur Shilling was a painter, illustrator and author who was born, and died (as a result of complications from rheumatic fever), on the Rama Reserve near Orilla, Ontario, and except for a brief period in the late 1960's and early 1970's, lived there most of his life. His medium was primarily oil on masonite or canvas, however he has also worked in pastel, watercolor and pencil. His subjects are portraits and landscapes. His style was expressionist characterized by distinctive bold strokes of color. He studied at the New School of Art and the Ontario College of Art in Toronto; but is mostly self-taught. He traveled through Canada's west to British Columbia and to northern Alberta. He started showing his work... Read full biography
Arthur Shilling (1941 - 1986). Arthur Shilling was a painter, illustrator and author who was born, and died (as a result of complications from rheumatic fever), on the Rama Reserve near Orilla, Ontario, and except for a brief period in the late 1960's and early 1970's, lived there most of his life. His medium was primarily oil on masonite or canvas, however he has also worked in pastel, watercolor and pencil. His subjects are portraits and landscapes. His style was expressionist characterized by distinctive bold strokes of color. He studied at the New School of Art and the Ontario College of Art in Toronto; but is mostly self-taught. He traveled through Canada's west to British Columbia and to northern Alberta. He started showing his work at the Orilla Public Library in 1963 and had his first solo show in Ottawa, Ontario in 1967. Subsequently... Read full biography
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Arthur Shilling (1941 - 1986)
Arthur Shilling was a painter, illustrator and author who was born, and died (as a result of complications from rheumatic fever), on the Rama Reserve near Orilla, Ontario, and except for a brief period in the late 1960's and early 1970's, lived there most of his life. His medium was primarily oil on masonite or canvas, however he has also worked in pastel, watercolor and pencil. His subjects are portraits and landscapes. His style was expressionist characterized by distinctive bold strokes of color.
He studied at the New School of Art and the Ontario College of Art in Toronto; but is mostly self-taught. He traveled through Canada's west to British Columbia and to northern Alberta.
He started showing his work at the Orilla Public Library in 1963 and had his first solo show in Ottawa, Ontario in 1967. Subsequently his work has been shown in over two dozen major group and solo exhibitions as well as many commercial galleries including some of the most important in Canada. His public venues have included the Indian Hall of Fame (C.N.E., Toronto); the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto); the Woodland Indian Cultural Centre ( Brantford, Ontario); Canada House England and Germany; the Museum of Sao Paulo (Brazil); Rideau Hall (Ottawa); the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery; the Thunder Bay Art Gallery; and the Tom Thomson Art Gallery (Owen Sound, Ontario).
His works are in many private, corporate and public collections. The public collections include The McMichael Canadian Collection, The National Museum of Civilization, The Royal Ontario Museum, The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian (Santa Fe, NM.), The Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto) and The Canadian Embassy Collection in Washington, D.C.
He is the author and illustrator of the book The Ojibway Dream (1986), published by Tundra Books (Montreal) (48pgs, color); and illustrator of the book We are the Music Makers (1984), by Court Stone, published by Castenchel Editions. He also supervised the design and construction of an art gallery on the Rama reserve.
As a prominent Canadian artist his work is discussed in several books on Canadian art as well as in dozens of newspaper and magazine articles and several TV specials. Some of the books are: Canadian Art - From its Beginnings to 2000, (2000) by Anne Newlands, published by Firefly Books (355 pgs, colour); The McMichael Canadian Collection, (1976) by various authors, published by The McMichael Collection (198 pgs, some color); A Dictionary of Canadian Artists (1974), by Colin S. MacDonald, published by Canadian Paperbacks Ltd. (8 volumes); and The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction (2001), by Anthony R. Westbridge and Diana L. Bodnar, published by Westbridge Publications Ltd. ( 4 Volumes). He was also the subject of the National Film Board's documentary The Beauty of My People: The Life, Work and Times of Arthur Shilling.
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