Robert Newton Hurley - Artist Info

About Robert Newton Hurley

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    Robert Newton Hurley LLD (1894 - 1980)

    "Mastery of the plain was the achievement of Englishman Robert Hurley. Diffident, slightly built, unlettered and untrained, Hurley was an unlikely giant killer." Ronald Rees (1)

    A prominent western Canadian painter, printmaker and draftsman, Robert Newton Hurley (AKA: R.N. Hurley) was born in Bromley-by-Bow, London, England; immigrated to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1923; and died in Victoria, British Columbia, where he'd been living since 1963. Thousands of his iconic paintings of the Canadian prairies are in private and public collections. (2)

    His mediums included watercolor, gouache*, acrylic, charcoal, felt pen, pencil, colored pencil, wax crayon, mixed mediums, and monotype*. H...

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