Manitoba, New Brunswick / Canada. Born 1942
Painting, printmaking, commercial art, illustration, photography
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Born 1950 Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada. Known for: Mural and easel painting, museum professional, teaching.
Derek Michael Besant was born in Fort McLeod, Alberta, in 1950. Growing up with parents who worked in the oil patch, he moved around a lot, and lived in Ottawa, Ontario, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,... Read full biography
Derek Michael Besant was born in Fort McLeod, Alberta, in 1950. Growing up with parents who worked in the oil patch, he moved around a lot, and lived in Ottawa, Ontario, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Winnipeg, Manitoba and various cities in Alberta. “I attended 13 different schools before university,”... Read full biography
Derek Michael Besant was born in Fort McLeod, Alberta, in 1950. Growing up with parents who worked in the oil patch, he moved around a lot, and lived in Ottawa, Ontario, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Winnipeg, Manitoba and various cities in Alberta. “I attended 13 different schools before university,” Besant writes. “I can always remember painting a fence in a new yard that backed onto the wild prairie, a woodland, or mountainous valley. I tend to be good at research, so education was a positive... Read full biography
Derek Michael Besant was born in Fort McLeod, Alberta, in 1950. Growing up with parents who worked in the oil patch, he moved around a lot, and lived in Ottawa, Ontario, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Winnipeg, Manitoba and various cities in Alberta. “I attended 13 different schools before university,” Besant writes. “I can always remember painting a fence in a new yard that backed onto the wild prairie, a woodland, or mountainous valley. I tend to be good at research, so education was a positive experience for me, even with all the moving between provinces.” (Besant, correspondence with the author, March 13, 2008). After high school Besant was headed for studies in Geophysics at university, but followed his “inner instincts” and studied Fine... Read full biography
Derek Michael Besant was born in Fort McLeod, Alberta, in 1950. Growing up with parents who worked in the oil patch, he moved around a lot, and lived in Ottawa, Ontario, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Winnipeg, Manitoba and various cities in Alberta. “I attended 13 different schools before university,” Besant writes. “I can always remember painting a fence in a new yard that backed onto the wild prairie, a woodland, or mountainous valley. I tend to be good at research, so education was a positive experience for me, even with all the moving between provinces.” (Besant, correspondence with the author, March 13, 2008). After high school Besant was headed for studies in Geophysics at university, but followed his “inner instincts” and studied Fine Arts instead. He graduated from the University of Calgary in Alberta with a Bachelor of Fine Arts honours degree in 1973, followed by gradua... Read full biography
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Painting
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Saskatchewan / Canada. 1929 - 2015
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Canada. 1924 - 2001
Landscape painting
Canada. Born 1942
Painting
Saskatchewan, Alberta / Canada. Born 1955
Portrait landscape, figure and wilderness activity painting, illustration, teaching
Alberta, Iowa / Canada. Born 1939
Painting, drawing, sculpture, teaching, flowers, plant studies, portraits
British Columbia / England, France. 1918 - 2014
Floral, interior, landscape and figure painting
Canada. 1900 - 1980
Painting
Ontario, Quebec / Canada, Europe. 1931 - 2014
Wilderness landscape, portrait, figure and still-life painting, drawing, teaching
Ontario / Canada. Born 1947
Floral still life and plein-air landscape painting
Quebec, Ontario / Canada, Switzerland, France. 1896 - 1989
Easel and mural painting, teaching, sculpture, printmaking
British Columbia, Manitoba / Canada. 1944 - 1990
Landscape, mountains, rural and coastal scene painting, lithography
Alberta, British Columbia / Canada. Born 1936
Rural landscape, snowscene, mountain, river, floral and forest painting
Quebec / Canada, Poland. 1910 - 1987
Building-urban scene painting, snowscenes, sculpture
British Columbia, Alberta / Canada, England. 1908 - 1986
Landscape, street scene, portrait, marine and abstract painting
British Columbia / Canada. Born 1955
High color modernist, impasto landscape, genre and figure painting
Alberta / Canada. 1912 - 1998
Modernist, naive watercolor land-townscape and genre painting
Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador / Canada. Born 1937
Landscape, snowscene, mountains, harbor, genre, still life and interior painting
Ontario / Canada, Belgium. 1907 - 1996
Genre, figure and landscape painting, engraving