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Lionel Fielding Downes

Lionel Fielding Downes (1900 - 1972) was active/lived in Manitoba, Quebec / Canada.  Lionel Downes is known for Portrait, street scene, landsape, figure, Indians genre painting, war artist.

Lionel Fielding Downes (1900 – 1972)

A Canadian painter and war artist, Lionel Fielding Downes (aka: Lionel Fielding-Downes) was born in Wigan, Lancashire, England; immigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba with his family in 1912; lived in Montreal; and, died in Ste-Foy, Quebec, a suburb of Quebec City. He exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts* and at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. His works are in the permanent collections of the Canadian War Museum, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Quebec Museum of Fine Arts. (1)

His mediums included oils, watercolors, and pastels. His subjects included portraits, street scenes, landscapes, figures, Indians, boating, shorelines, genre* (outdoor work and sports activities), and still lifes.  His styles could be described as Fauvism*, Impressionism* and Naturalism*. His askART record has dozens of excellent illustrations of his oeuvre.

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Lionel Fielding Downes


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Magazine Illustration
  • Painting, Fine Art
  • Sketch, Sketching
Art MediaArt Subject
  • Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Indian, Native American Culture
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Outdoor Sporting Scenes, Field and Stream, Hunting
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Still Life
  • Street Scenes, Street Genre
Art Teacher
  • Arthur Lismer
  • Charles Comfort
  • Franz Johnston
  • Frederick Simpson Coburn
  • George Bouche
  • Hal Foster
  • Lionel Lemoine Fitzgerald
  • Nicholas de Grandmaison
Art School
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Federal School of Commercial Designing, Minneapolis, Student
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
  • Winnipeg School of Art, Student
Added Description
  • War Artist
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Exhibition of Museum
  • Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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