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1917 Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 1996 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Known for: Abstract expressionist painting and sculpture.
Walter Yarwood was a painter, commercial artist and sculptor who was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and died in Hamilton, Ontario. His painting mediums were oil, watercolour and gouache. His... Read full biography
Walter Yarwood was a painter, commercial artist and sculptor who was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and died in Hamilton, Ontario. His painting mediums were oil, watercolour and gouache. His sculpture mediums were welded steel, cast aluminium, bronze, iron, brass, wood and found objects. His... Read full biography
Walter Yarwood was a painter, commercial artist and sculptor who was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and died in Hamilton, Ontario. His painting mediums were oil, watercolour and gouache. His sculpture mediums were welded steel, cast aluminium, bronze, iron, brass, wood and found objects. His subjects were primarily abstracts and abstracted figures. His styles were abstract expressionism, lyrical abstraction and semi abstraction. He studied at Western Technical School (Toronto); however, he is... Read full biography
Walter Yarwood was a painter, commercial artist and sculptor who was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and died in Hamilton, Ontario. His painting mediums were oil, watercolour and gouache. His sculpture mediums were welded steel, cast aluminium, bronze, iron, brass, wood and found objects. His subjects were primarily abstracts and abstracted figures. His styles were abstract expressionism, lyrical abstraction and semi abstraction. He studied at Western Technical School (Toronto); however, he is considered largely self taught. In the 1940's and 1950's, he worked as a freelance advertising artist associating with and sometimes sharing studio space with Ronald York Wilson (see AskART), Jack Bush (see AskART), and Oscar Cahen (see AskART). In... Read full biography
Walter Yarwood was a painter, commercial artist and sculptor who was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and died in Hamilton, Ontario. His painting mediums were oil, watercolour and gouache. His sculpture mediums were welded steel, cast aluminium, bronze, iron, brass, wood and found objects. His subjects were primarily abstracts and abstracted figures. His styles were abstract expressionism, lyrical abstraction and semi abstraction. He studied at Western Technical School (Toronto); however, he is considered largely self taught. In the 1940's and 1950's, he worked as a freelance advertising artist associating with and sometimes sharing studio space with Ronald York Wilson (see AskART), Jack Bush (see AskART), and Oscar Cahen (see AskART). In the 1970's he was an instructor at Humber College (Toronto) . He stopped painting in 1960 and for the... Read full biography
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Walter Yarwood was a painter, commercial artist and sculptor who was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and died in Hamilton, Ontario. His painting mediums were oil, watercolour and gouache. His sculpture mediums were welded steel, cast aluminium, bronze, iron, brass, wood and found objects. His subjects were primarily abstracts and abstracted figures. His styles were abstract expressionism, lyrical abstraction and semi abstraction.
He studied at Western Technical School (Toronto); however, he is considered largely self taught. In the 1940's and 1950's, he worked as a freelance advertising artist associating with and sometimes sharing studio space with Ronald York Wilson (see AskART), Jack Bush (see AskART...But wait, there's more...
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