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Alex (David Alexander) Colville

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Alex (David Alexander) Colville (1920 - 2013) was active/lived in Nova Scotia, Ontario / Canada.  Alex Colville is known for Painting, printmaking, murals, teaching.

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 Alexander Colville (AKA: David Alexander Colville) is a painter, printmaker, muralist and educator who was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  He spent most of his early childhood in St.Catherines, Ontario. In 1929 his family moved to Amherst, Nova Scotia.  In 1973 he moved to Wolfville, Nova Scotia (about 50 miles North) where he currently (2009) lives and works.
 
His primary mediums, since 1963, are acrylic polymer emulsion and serigraph.  He has also worked with glazed tempera, casein tempera, glazed oil emulsion, oil on synthetic resin, egg tempera, ink, watercolour and felt tip pen.  His subjects are his family, pets, animals, means of transportation, local landscape, nudes, symbolism, allegory, genre and (during World War II) war.  His style is described as High Realism (1). It is meticulous, crisp and precisely composed.  The effect on many viewers, regardless of the innocuous  image, is often a feeling of something dis   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 14599 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  68
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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Alex (David Alexander) Colville
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art Times New Art Books April 2004 Steiner, Raymond J No
68 Book References for Alex (David Alexander) Colville
Year Author Title Pages Color
2017 Carney, Lora Senechal Canadian Painters in a Modern World, 1925-1955 322 Yes
2015 Seidner, Eva Artist and Model (Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto) 116 Yes
2013 Editor, Art Gallery of Ontario AGO: Highlights from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario 357 Yes
2012 Seidner, Eva The Self-Portrait Show: A 50th Anniversary Exhibition (Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto) 82 Yes
2009 Gimblett, Richard H. The Naval Service of Canada, 1910-2010, The Centennial Story 230 Yes
2009 Grandbois, Michele, Anna Hudson and Esther Trepanier The Nude in Modern Canadian Art, 1920-1950 (Quebec Museum of Fine Arts) 191 Yes
2007 Newlands, Anne Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings 366 Yes
2006 Benezit, E Benezit Dictionary of Artists, English Version and Online (Fourteen Volumes) 0 No
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Bruce, Tobi and Janice Anderson Lasting Impressions: Celebrated Works from the Art Gallery of Hamilton (Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario) 319 Yes
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Smart, Tom Alex Colville: Return 144 Yes
2002 Newlands, Anne Canadian Art: From its Beginnings to 2000 355 Yes
2001 Thom, Ian et al Vancouver Collects (Vancouver Art Gallery)
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
2001 Westbridge, Anthony R. and Diana L. Bodnar The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction 622 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Garvey, Susan Gibson A Century of Canadian Drawing: Selected from the Permanent Collection of the Dalhousei Art Gallery 50 No
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1995 Fry, PHilip Alex Colville: Paintings, Prints and Processes, 1983-1994 0 Yes
1995 Perkin, J.R.C. Ordinary Magic: A Biographical Sketch of Alex Colville 180 Yes
1994 Cheetham, Mark A. Alex Colville---The Observer Observed 0 Yes
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1992 Shaw, Catherine Elliot Collective Efforts: 50 Years of Intentionality 59 No
1991 Hoffman, Katherine Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945 400 Yes
1991 Lerner, Loren R; Mary F. Williamson Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981 1557 Yes
1990 Burnett, David; Dr. Shirley L. Thomson (Foreward) Masterpieces of Canadian Art: From the National Gallery of Canada 230 Yes
1990 Plimpton, George; J. Carter Brown Sport in Art From American Museums
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
1989 Burnett, David Cineplex Odeon The First Ten Years: A Celebration of Contemporary Canadian Art 97 Yes
1989 Fox, Ross and Grace Inglis The Art Gallery of Hamilton: Seventy-Five Years (1914-1989) (Art Gallery of Hamilton) 122 Yes
1989 Kelly, Gemey, Charlotte Townsend-Gault and Cliff Eyland Atque Ars: Art from Mount Allison University, 1854-1989 (The Owens Art Gallery) 48 No
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1989 Teitelbaum, Matthew Mendel Art Gallery: Twenty Five Years of Collecting (Mendel Art Gallery)
(Exhibition catalog)		 100 Yes
1988 McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal) 417 No
1988 Reid, Dennis A Concise History of Canadian Painting (Second Edition) 418 Yes
1987 Feldman, Edmund Burke Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition) 528 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1983 Burnett, David Colville 0 Yes
1983 Metson, Graham; Cheryl Lean (compilers) Alex Colville: Diary of a War Artist 0 Yes
1982 R.R. Bowker Co. (Editors) Who's Who in American Art, Fifteenth Edition, 1982 1204 No
1982 Shepherd, Michael Canadian Art in Britain: Contemporary Works from Collections in Britain 56 Yes
1981 Murray, Joan Canadian Artists of the Second World War (Robert McLaughlin Gallery) 124 No
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1979 Lipman, Marci; Louise Lipman Twenty Painters/Twenty Paintings: Contemporary Canadian Art 48 Yes
1979 Morris, Jerrold 20th Century Canadian Drawings 107 No
1978 Broun, Francis The Work of Art: Six Artists (Art Gallery of Ontario) 44 Yes
1978 Fenton, Terry; Karen Wilken Modern Painting in Canada: Major Movements in Twentieth Century Canadian Art 119 Yes
1978 Varley, Christopher and Jeffrey Spaulding Coasts, the Sea and Canadian Art 96 No
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Robertson, Heather A Terrible Beauty: The Art of Canada at War (Sponsored by Robert McLaughlin Gallery and Canadian War Museum) 240 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Williamson, Moncrieff Through Canadian Eyes: Trends and Influences in Canadian Art, 1815-1965 (Glenbow Museum) 88 Yes
1974 Duval, Paul High Realism in Canada 175 Yes
1974 MacDonald, Colin, S. A Dictionary of Canadian Artists (8 Volumes) 3667 No
1973 Chase, Linda Les Hyperrrealists Americains 76 Yes
1973 Onn, Gerald (Translator) Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art 0 No
1973 Reid, Dennis A Concise History of Canadian History, 1973 319 Yes
1972 Dow, Helen J. The Art of Alex Colville 0 Yes
1972 Morris, Jerrold The Nude in Canadian Painting 89 Yes
1972 Withrow, William Contemporary Canadian Painting 224 Yes
1970 Townsend, William Canadian Art Today 114 Yes
1967 Curator, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery Statements: 18 Canadian Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 99 No
1967 Hubbard, R.H.; J.R. Ostiguy Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art 254 Yes
1966 Kilbourn, Elizabeth; Frank Newfeld Great Canadian Painting: A Century of Art 128 Yes
1964 Brieger, P.H.; George Vickers, F.E. Winter Art and Man---The Modern World (Book Three of 3 Volumes) 234 Yes
1964 O'Brien, Paddy Surrealism in Canadian Painting (London Public Library and Art Museum) 10 No
1963 Turner, Evan H.; William J. Withrow Fifteen Canadian Artists (Museum of Modern Art, New York) 48 Yes
1960 Hubbard, R.H. The National Gallery of Canada: Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Volume III 463 No
1945 McCurry, H.O. and National Gallery of Canada Exhibition of Canadian War Art (Exhibition at National Gallery and Art Gallery of Toronto)
(Exhibition catalog)		 22 No
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