Thomas Harold Beament - Artist Info

About Thomas Harold Beament

Name variants

Harold Beament, Thomas Harold Beamont
  • Biography

    Thomas Harold Beament RCA, CSGA (1898 - 1984)

    Commander Thomas Harold Beament was a painter, draftsman, commercial artist, muralist, illustrator, educator, President of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts* and a famous Canadian war artist. Hundreds of his paintings and drawings are in Canadian museums.

    He was born in Ottawa, Ontario and died in Montreal, Quebec, his home since 1926. (1)

    His mediums were oil, watercolor, pastel, pencil, Conte Crayon*, pen & ink, charcoal and lithography*. His subjects included portraits, landscapes, figures, nudes, mountains, seascapes, industry and genre*. However his most famous works are of Canadian Navy subjects and of Eskimo (Inuit) genre. His style was Realism*...

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