The following text was submitted by Louis Gagliardi, Curator, P.C. Sheppard Collection:Peter Clapham Sheppard A.R.C.A, O.S.A. (1882-1965). Peter Clapham Sheppard occupies a place among a notable... Read full biography
The following text was submitted by Louis Gagliardi, Curator, P.C. Sheppard Collection:Peter Clapham Sheppard A.R.C.A, O.S.A. (1882-1965). Peter Clapham Sheppard occupies a place among a notable generation of artists that pioneered and firmly established a distinctively Canadian school of art. In... Read full biography
The following text was submitted by Louis Gagliardi, Curator, P.C. Sheppard Collection:Peter Clapham Sheppard A.R.C.A, O.S.A. (1882-1965). Peter Clapham Sheppard occupies a place among a notable generation of artists that pioneered and firmly established a distinctively Canadian school of art. In the years preceding the Great War and in the decade to follow, these Toronto-based artists broke away from the academic, the often dull and sentimental images of the French and Dutch aesthetic, to... Read full biography
The following text was submitted by Louis Gagliardi, Curator, P.C. Sheppard Collection:Peter Clapham Sheppard A.R.C.A, O.S.A. (1882-1965). Peter Clapham Sheppard occupies a place among a notable generation of artists that pioneered and firmly established a distinctively Canadian school of art. In the years preceding the Great War and in the decade to follow, these Toronto-based artists broke away from the academic, the often dull and sentimental images of the French and Dutch aesthetic, to focus their attentions on the beauty and bounty of the Canadian landscape - specifically, the waters, forests, and skies of Ontario's hinterland. They painted these elements, timelessly transforming under the changing visages of the seasons, in a new and... Read full biography
The following text was submitted by Louis Gagliardi, Curator, P.C. Sheppard Collection:Peter Clapham Sheppard A.R.C.A, O.S.A. (1882-1965). Peter Clapham Sheppard occupies a place among a notable generation of artists that pioneered and firmly established a distinctively Canadian school of art. In the years preceding the Great War and in the decade to follow, these Toronto-based artists broke away from the academic, the often dull and sentimental images of the French and Dutch aesthetic, to focus their attentions on the beauty and bounty of the Canadian landscape - specifically, the waters, forests, and skies of Ontario's hinterland. They painted these elements, timelessly transforming under the changing visages of the seasons, in a new and vibrant modernist idiom. P.C. Sheppard trained, sketched, and exhibited alongside such peers as Tom Thomson as well as others who wo... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (6)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal)
1988
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing
417 pages
The National Gallery of Canada: Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Volume III
1960
Hubbard, R.H.
463 pages
Catalog of Paintings National Gallery of Canada (Exhibition catalog)
1948
National Gallery Of Canada
271 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index