About Oscar deLall

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Oscar Daniel De Lall
  • Biography

    The following is from Audrey E. deLall (nee Palmer), widow of the artist. Courtesy, Karla A. Palmer, niece.

    Internationally respected Canadian artist, Oscar deLall, RCA was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on September 12th 1903, and died in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on May 21st 1971, at the age of 67.

    deLall was educated at a naval college in Russia, conscripted into the Navy, and following discharge, left his homeland for North America. It was after arriving in Halifax in 1926 and settling in Montreal in 1930 that deLall's career as a landscape and portrait artist began.

    deLall's first recognition as an artist came in 1933 when he was commissioned to do charcoal sketchings of 27 McGill University ...

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