The Naval Service of Canada, 1910-2010, The Centennial Story
2009Gimblett, Richard H.
230 pages (color)
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1921 Budapest, Hungary - 2009 Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Known for: Portrait, figure and animal painting, war artist.
Jack Nichols (1921–2009) was a Canadian artist from Montreal, Quebec. He worked for a time with Frederick Horsman Varley and Louis Muhlstock. For a few summers during the early 1940s, he worked as a... Read full biography
Jack Nichols (1921–2009) was a Canadian artist from Montreal, Quebec. He worked for a time with Frederick Horsman Varley and Louis Muhlstock. For a few summers during the early 1940s, he worked as a deckhand on cargo boats plying the Great Lakes. In 1943, the National Gallery of Canada commissioned... Read full biography
Jack Nichols (1921–2009) was a Canadian artist from Montreal, Quebec. He worked for a time with Frederick Horsman Varley and Louis Muhlstock. For a few summers during the early 1940s, he worked as a deckhand on cargo boats plying the Great Lakes. In 1943, the National Gallery of Canada commissioned him to depict the activities of the Canadian Merchant Navy and he left on a mission to the Caribbean with Michael Forster. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy in February 1944 and worked as an... Read full biography
Jack Nichols (1921–2009) was a Canadian artist from Montreal, Quebec. He worked for a time with Frederick Horsman Varley and Louis Muhlstock. For a few summers during the early 1940s, he worked as a deckhand on cargo boats plying the Great Lakes. In 1943, the National Gallery of Canada commissioned him to depict the activities of the Canadian Merchant Navy and he left on a mission to the Caribbean with Michael Forster. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy in February 1944 and worked as an official war artist from April 1944 to August 1945. Most of his works depict the landing operations at Normandy and destroyer movements off Brest. He obtained a Guggenheim fellowship that allowed him to travel and paint in United States in 1947 and... Read full biography
Jack Nichols (1921–2009) was a Canadian artist from Montreal, Quebec. He worked for a time with Frederick Horsman Varley and Louis Muhlstock. For a few summers during the early 1940s, he worked as a deckhand on cargo boats plying the Great Lakes. In 1943, the National Gallery of Canada commissioned him to depict the activities of the Canadian Merchant Navy and he left on a mission to the Caribbean with Michael Forster. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy in February 1944 and worked as an official war artist from April 1944 to August 1945. Most of his works depict the landing operations at Normandy and destroyer movements off Brest. He obtained a Guggenheim fellowship that allowed him to travel and paint in United States in 1947 and 1948. He taught at the Vancouver School of Art in 1948. He won a prize at the Second International Exhibition of Drawing and En... Read full biography
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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal)
1988McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing417 pagesWorks from the McCuaig Collection in the Laurentian University Museum (Now Called Art Gallery of Sudbury)
1987Krueger, Pamela56 pagesCanadian Artists of the Second World War (Robert McLaughlin Gallery)
1981Murray, Joan124 pagesA Canadian Survey: Selected Works from the Collection of Imperial Oil Limited (Art Gallery of Ontario)
1978Moses, Gerry52 pages (color)Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection, 1973-1976 (Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery)
1977Phillips, Carol A.36 pagesA Terrible Beauty: The Art of Canada at War (Sponsored by Robert McLaughlin Gallery and Canadian War Museum)
1977Robertson, Heather240 pages (color)Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art
1967Hubbard, R.H.; J.R. Ostiguy254 pages (color)Great Canadian Painting: A Century of Art
1966Kilbourn, Elizabeth; Frank Newfeld128 pages (color)Surrealism in Canadian Painting (London Public Library and Art Museum)
1964O'Brien, Paddy10 pagesExhibition of Canadian War Art (Exhibition at National Gallery and Art Gallery of Toronto)
1945
(Exhibition catalog)McCurry, H.O. and National Gallery of Canada22 pages