Artist: Alex Colville (1920 - )
Nationality: Canadian
Movement: Modern Canadian School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
As a child, Canadian artist Alex Colville battled pneumonia and was encourages to draw during his recovery periods. Originally intending to go into law and politics, Colville was persuaded otherwise by his mentor Stanley Royale. He spent three years as a war artist and then taught at Mount Allison University until 1963. His paintings are executed in realist style using the pointillism of the post-impressionist movement.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Chuck Close - Alex 1991 color woodcut on pap Hirshhorn Museum American
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Alex Katz, Red Cap, 1989
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A. T. Alex, Old man, resting, 19th century
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Alex Katz, The Green Cap, 1985
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Alex Bannerman, Cibber, 18th century
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Artist: Alex Grinager Title: Boys Bathing Date: 1894 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.34 x
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A. T. Alex, The Warriors, 19th century
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Alex Katz, Ursula, 1990
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Alex Katz, Reclining Figure, 1987
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A. T. Alex, Night Patrol, 19th century
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Alex Katz, Swamp Maple, 20th century
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Alex Katz, Black Shoes, 1987
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Alex Katz, Joan, 1986
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Alex Katz, Swimmer, 1990
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Julian Alden Weir, Alex Webb Weir, 1877
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Alex Katz, John Ashbury, 1986
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Wenceslas Hollar, Alex Hendersoni, 17th century
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A. T. Alex, Horse Market, 19th century
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A. T. Alex, Playing Piano, 19th century
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Alex Katz, Working proof 9 for The Green Cap, 1985
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Alex Katz, Working proof 5 for The Green Cap, 1985
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A. T. Alex, Old Ferry Boat, Czech, 19th century
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Alex Katz, Working proof 2 for The Green Cap, 1985
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Alex Katz, Working proof 6 for The Green Cap, 1985
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Alex Katz, Working proof 1 for Swimmer, 1990
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Alex Katz, Working proof 2 for Swimmer, 1990
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Alex Katz, Working proof 3 for Swimmer, 1990
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Alex Katz, Working proof 1 for The Green Cap, 1985
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Alex Katz, Working proof 3 for The Green Cap, 1985
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Alex Katz, Working proof 7 for The Green Cap, 1985
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Alex Katz, Working proof 4 for The Green Cap, 1985
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Alex Katz, Working proof 8 for The Green Cap, 1985
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Alex Katz, Beach Sandals, 1987
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Alex Katz, Black Brook, 1989
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Alex Katz, Working proof 4 for Ursula, 20th century
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Alex Katz, Working proof 2 for Ursula, 20th century
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Alex Katz, Working proof 1 for Ursula, 20th century
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Alex Katz, Working proof 3 for Ursula, 20th century
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Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont, Portrait of Alex Desenne, 18th - 19th century
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Alex Bannerman, 1. James Gibbs, 2.A perspective View Of Ratcliffe Library., 18th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (10)
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University of Toronto Art Centre: Alex Colville: Return , Paintings, Drawings and Prints 1994 - 2002
Alex Colville (b. 1920) is one of Canada's most renowned artists, who has garnered a world-wide following. The quiet mystery inherent in all his works has intrigued his public since he first began exhibiting in the early 1950s. Coupled with his ee...
September Song, Soho MultiMedia Festival: Call for Entries: International Open Image 2001
We have brought together some of the respected names in the industry to sponsor and view entrants work. The Colville Place Gallery, Internet Cameras Direct, MGI Software Corporation, DC Pro Europe, SIS - Stock Illustration Source, Hannah Gal, C...
Colville Place Gallery: Enchanted: Julie Clark, Alexa de Ferranti and Charlotte Prodger
Julie Clark, video
The video pieces and drawings use found footage of little accidents recorded from You've Been Framed to examine moments of embarrassment, when one feels suddenly vulnerable or exposed by a physical kind of lapse and loss of...
Colville Place Gallery: Tom Kemp: No Concept
What if it were possible to record a performance of human motion as a still picture, full of clarity and intimately connected to the original movementsNULL Such a technique is not only available but we all use it every day in the form of ...
Colville Place Gallery: 256 Colours: Horton Jennings
Jennings continues, I tend to identify my colour choices with emotions, although I don't think blue is sad, rather I see it as a form or a hollow space. Colour suggests spaces to me, and spaces suggest emotions. Rather than talk about my emotion...
Colville Place Gallery: Visiting American Artist 1st time in UK Laurence Garte
On the brink of the 21st century we are faced with a different criteria for living. Our society is all about Consumption, GM Foods, Petroleum, The Media, Television. Just how much more can we absorb, consume or digestNULL  Today we are living in a...
Colville Place Gallery: Marty St James: Betweeness
A number of my previous performance and video art works were to do with a sense of staticness and in contrast my static image print works are often to do with movement. This allows me an artistic freedom within the form and content. Marty St....
Eiteljorg Museum of American and Western Art: After the Storm: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art 2001,
In only its second presentation, the biennial Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art awards $20,000 to each of five artists chosen by a panel of respected selectors and to a master artist named by the Eiteljorg Museum. The program inclu...
Colville Place Gallery: The Best Way to View the Past is to Invent it...Alternity by Steven Cook
Alternity began about 5 years ago when I started collecting old photographs and carte de visites of people. I'd be sifting through thousands of the things and every once in a while there would be a ...
Colville Place Gallery: Kerry John Andrews
As an inter-disciplinary digital artist and composer, Andrews current practice is focused upon constructing work that has no single medium, but transfers ideas across forms and languages, creating pieces that reside outside their physical forms...

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