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1882 Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 1965 Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Known for: Portraits, still life, landscape, marine, and genre painting.
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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Keywords (20)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
- •Engraving, Engraver
- •Lithography, Lithograph
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Subject
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Art Association
- •Ontario Society of Artists
Art Teacher
- •George Agnew Reid
- •John William Beatty
- •William Cruickshank
Art School
- •Ontario College of Art and Design (Toronto), Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Roberts Gallery, Toronto
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •New York World's Fair, 1939-1940