About David Brown Milne

  • Biography

    "The thing that makes a picture is the thing that makes dynamite - compression" - David Milne

    David Brown Milne is considered to be one of the greatest Canadian artists. He was a painter, printmaker, commercial artist, illustrator and writer who was born in Burgoyne, Ontario (100 miles North West of Toronto) and died in Bancroft, Ontario (100 miles North East of Toronto), where he had lived the last year of his life (1). He also lived in New York City (1903 - 1916); Boston Corner, New York (1916 - 1928) (2); Temagami, Weston, and Palgrave, Ontario (1928 - 1932); Six Mile Lake, Ontario, (1932 - 1939); Toronto, Ontario (1939 - 1940); and Uxbridge, Ontario (1940 - 1952). He spent the summers from 1919 to 1928 in the Adironda...

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