Gregory Richard Curnoe (1936 - 1992)

An important and influential Canadian, painter, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, muralist and educator, Gregory Richard Curnoe (AKA: Greg Curnoe) was born in London, Ontario, lived there most of his life, and died in a cycling accident on a road in Strathroy, Ontario, about 15 miles west of London. Curnoe was an outspoken regionalist as his primary subjects were his immediate surroundings, his family and his hometown of London, Ontario. However, his influence was far beyond his region as virtually all Canadian art history books (written since the mid 1960s) discuss Curnoe at length, and hundreds of examples of his works are in the permanent collections of almost every major Canadian ...