Arthur Lismer (1885-1969)

Professions: Landscape painter; Engraver

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  Arthur Lismer 1885 - 1969 Canadian oil on canvas

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  Arthur Lismer 1885 - 1969 Canadian oil on canvas

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  Arthur Lismer 1885 - 1969 Canadian oil on canvas

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  Arthur Lismer 1885 - 1969 Canadian oil on panel

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Arthur Lismer Biography

(b Sheffield, S Yorks, 27 June 1885; d Montreal, 23 March 1969). Canadian painter, draughtsman and teacher. He studied at the Sheffield School of Art (1898–1905) and at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Antwerp (1906–7). In 1911 he emigrated to Canada, where he worked as a commercial artist for Grip Ltd, Toronto. In 1916 he began a long and distinguished career as a teacher, during which he held a number of influential posts, including that of principal of the Victoria School (now Nova Scotia College) of Art and Design (1916–19) and principal of the School of Art and Design at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1942–67). He had a profound interest in the teaching of art to children, and was influenced in this by Franz Cizek and by John Dewey. Lismer’s belief in the importance of a child’s imaginative growth and self-expression led to him founding the Children’s Art Centre at the Art Gallery of Toronto (1933) and at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1946).

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