Alexander Colville (AKA: David Alexander Colville) is a painter, printmaker, muralist and educator who was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He spent most of his early childhood in St.Catherines,... Read full biography
Alexander Colville (AKA: David Alexander Colville) is a painter, printmaker, muralist and educator who was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He spent most of his early childhood in St.Catherines, Ontario. In 1929 his family moved to Amherst, Nova Scotia. In 1973 he moved to Wolfville, Nova Scotia... Read full biography
Alexander Colville (AKA: David Alexander Colville) is a painter, printmaker, muralist and educator who was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He spent most of his early childhood in St.Catherines, Ontario. In 1929 his family moved to Amherst, Nova Scotia. In 1973 he moved to Wolfville, Nova Scotia (about 50 miles North) where he currently (2009) lives and works. His primary mediums, since 1963, are acrylic polymer emulsion and serigraph. He has also worked with glazed tempera, casein tempera,... Read full biography
Alexander Colville (AKA: David Alexander Colville) is a painter, printmaker, muralist and educator who was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He spent most of his early childhood in St.Catherines, Ontario. In 1929 his family moved to Amherst, Nova Scotia. In 1973 he moved to Wolfville, Nova Scotia (about 50 miles North) where he currently (2009) lives and works. His primary mediums, since 1963, are acrylic polymer emulsion and serigraph. He has also worked with glazed tempera, casein tempera, glazed oil emulsion, oil on synthetic resin, egg tempera, ink, watercolour and felt tip pen. His subjects are his family, pets, animals, means of transportation, local landscape, nudes, symbolism, allegory, genre and (during World War II) war. His... Read full biography
Alexander Colville (AKA: David Alexander Colville) is a painter, printmaker, muralist and educator who was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He spent most of his early childhood in St.Catherines, Ontario. In 1929 his family moved to Amherst, Nova Scotia. In 1973 he moved to Wolfville, Nova Scotia (about 50 miles North) where he currently (2009) lives and works. His primary mediums, since 1963, are acrylic polymer emulsion and serigraph. He has also worked with glazed tempera, casein tempera, glazed oil emulsion, oil on synthetic resin, egg tempera, ink, watercolour and felt tip pen. His subjects are his family, pets, animals, means of transportation, local landscape, nudes, symbolism, allegory, genre and (during World War II) war. His style is described as High Realism (1). It is meticulous, crisp and precisely composed. The ef... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (69)
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Generations: The Sobey Family and Canadian Art (McMichael Canadian Art Collection & Gooseland Editions
2022
Milroy, Sarah
0 pages (color)
Canadian Painters in a Modern World, 1925-1955
2017
Carney, Lora Senechal
322 pages (color)
Artist and Model (Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto)
2015
Seidner, Eva
116 pages (color)
AGO: Highlights from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario
2013
Editor, Art Gallery of Ontario
357 pages (color)
The Self-Portrait Show: A 50th Anniversary Exhibition (Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto)
2012
Seidner, Eva
82 pages (color)
The Naval Service of Canada, 1910-2010, The Centennial Story
2009
Gimblett, Richard H.
230 pages (color)
The Nude in Modern Canadian Art, 1920-1950 (Quebec Museum of Fine Arts)
2009
Grandbois, Michele, Anna Hudson and Esther Trepanier
191 pages (color)
Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings
2007
Newlands, Anne
366 pages (color)
Benezit Dictionary of Artists, English Version and Online (Fourteen Volumes)
2006
Benezit, E
0 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Lasting Impressions: Celebrated Works from the Art Gallery of Hamilton (Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario)
2005
Bruce, Tobi and Janice Anderson
319 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Alex Colville: Return
2003
Smart, Tom
144 pages (color)
Canadian Art: From its Beginnings to 2000
2002
Newlands, Anne
355 pages (color)
Vancouver Collects (Vancouver Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Thom, Ian et al
159 pages (color)
The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction
2001
Westbridge, Anthony R. and Diana L. Bodnar
622 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
A Century of Canadian Drawing: Selected from the Permanent Collection of the Dalhousei Art Gallery
1999
Garvey, Susan Gibson
50 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Alex Colville: Paintings, Prints and Processes, 1983-1994
1995
Fry, PHilip
0 pages (color)
Ordinary Magic: A Biographical Sketch of Alex Colville
1995
Perkin, J.R.C.
180 pages (color)
Alex Colville---The Observer Observed
1994
Cheetham, Mark A.
0 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Collective Efforts: 50 Years of Intentionality
1992
Shaw, Catherine Elliot
59 pages
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981
1991
Lerner, Loren R; Mary F. Williamson
1,557 pages (color)
Masterpieces of Canadian Art: From the National Gallery of Canada
1990
Burnett, David; Dr. Shirley L. Thomson (Foreward)
230 pages (color)
Sport in Art From American Museums (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Plimpton, George; J. Carter Brown
128 pages (color)
Cineplex Odeon The First Ten Years: A Celebration of Contemporary Canadian Art
1989
Burnett, David
97 pages (color)
The Art Gallery of Hamilton: Seventy-Five Years (1914-1989) (Art Gallery of Hamilton)
1989
Fox, Ross and Grace Inglis
122 pages (color)
Atque Ars: Art from Mount Allison University, 1854-1989 (The Owens Art Gallery)
1989
Kelly, Gemey, Charlotte Townsend-Gault and Cliff Eyland
48 pages
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Mendel Art Gallery: Twenty Five Years of Collecting (Mendel Art Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Teitelbaum, Matthew
100 pages (color)
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal)
1988
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing
417 pages
A Concise History of Canadian Painting (Second Edition)
1988
Reid, Dennis
418 pages (color)
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Colville
1983
Burnett, David
0 pages (color)
Alex Colville: Diary of a War Artist
1983
Metson, Graham; Cheryl Lean (compilers)
0 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, Fifteenth Edition, 1982
1982
R.R. Bowker Co. (Editors)
1,204 pages
Canadian Art in Britain: Contemporary Works from Collections in Britain
1982
Shepherd, Michael
56 pages (color)
Canadian Artists of the Second World War (Robert McLaughlin Gallery)
1981
Murray, Joan
124 pages
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
Twenty Painters/Twenty Paintings: Contemporary Canadian Art
1979
Lipman, Marci; Louise Lipman
48 pages (color)
20th Century Canadian Drawings
1979
Morris, Jerrold
107 pages
The Work of Art: Six Artists (Art Gallery of Ontario)
1978
Broun, Francis
44 pages (color)
Modern Painting in Canada: Major Movements in Twentieth Century Canadian Art
1978
Fenton, Terry; Karen Wilken
119 pages (color)
Coasts, the Sea and Canadian Art
1978
Varley, Christopher and Jeffrey Spaulding
96 pages
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
A Terrible Beauty: The Art of Canada at War (Sponsored by Robert McLaughlin Gallery and Canadian War Museum)
1977
Robertson, Heather
240 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Through Canadian Eyes: Trends and Influences in Canadian Art, 1815-1965 (Glenbow Museum)
1976
Williamson, Moncrieff
88 pages (color)
High Realism in Canada
1974
Duval, Paul
175 pages (color)
A Dictionary of Canadian Artists (8 Volumes)
1974
MacDonald, Colin, S.
3,667 pages
Les Hyperrrealists Americains
1973
Chase, Linda
76 pages (color)
Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art
1973
Onn, Gerald (Translator)
0 pages
A Concise History of Canadian History, 1973
1973
Reid, Dennis
319 pages (color)
The Art of Alex Colville
1972
Dow, Helen J.
0 pages (color)
The Nude in Canadian Painting
1972
Morris, Jerrold
89 pages (color)
Contemporary Canadian Painting
1972
Withrow, William
224 pages (color)
Canadian Art Today
1970
Townsend, William
114 pages (color)
Statements: 18 Canadian Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1967
Curator, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery
99 pages
Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art
1967
Hubbard, R.H.; J.R. Ostiguy
254 pages (color)
Great Canadian Painting: A Century of Art
1966
Kilbourn, Elizabeth; Frank Newfeld
128 pages (color)
Art and Man---The Modern World (Book Three of 3 Volumes)
1964
Brieger, P.H.; George Vickers, F.E. Winter
234 pages (color)
Surrealism in Canadian Painting (London Public Library and Art Museum)
1964
O'Brien, Paddy
10 pages
Fifteen Canadian Artists (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
1963
Turner, Evan H.; William J. Withrow
48 pages (color)
The National Gallery of Canada: Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Volume III
1960
Hubbard, R.H.
463 pages
Exhibition of Canadian War Art (Exhibition at National Gallery and Art Gallery of Toronto) (Exhibition catalog)