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
Walter Hawley Yarwood - Artist Info
About Walter Hawley Yarwood: Books
Books & Publications (16)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Painters Eleven: The Wild Ones of Canadian Art
2010
Nowell, Iris
384 pages (color)
The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction
2001
Westbridge, Anthony R. and Diana L. Bodnar
622 pages
Sculpture/Toronto: An Illustrated Guide to Toronto's Historic and Contemporary Sculpture with Area Maps
1994
Ardiel, June
147 pages
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)
Visions-Contemporary Art in Canada
1983
Bringhurst, Robert (Editor)
239 pages (color)
Contemporary Canadian Art
1983
Burnett, David; Marilyn Schiff
300 pages (color)
The History of Painting in Canada: Toward A Peoples' Art
1974
Lord, Barry
253 pages (color)
Four Decades: The Canadian Group of Painters and their Contemporaries, 1930-1970
1972
Duval, Paul
192 pages (color)
Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection
1970
Bradfield, Helen Pepall
603 pages
Canadian Art Today
1970
Townsend, William
114 pages (color)
Sculpture 67 (National Gallery of Canada) (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Cameron, Dorothy, and Don Wallace
115 pages
Agnes Etherington Art Centre Queen's University at Kingston