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Gordon Appelbe Smith

Gordon Appelbe Smith (1919 - 2020) was active/lived in British Columbia / Canada, England.  Gordon Smith is known for Expressionist and geometric abstract painting, murals, sculpture, teaching.

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The following obituary is from the Vancouver Sun newspaper.

"Beloved B.C. artist Gordon Smith dies at home in West Vancouver: The long-time artist, whose name graced the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art in North Vancouver, was 100 years old"
KEVIN GRIFFIN    Updated: January 20, 2020

Gordon Smith, B.C.’s most-beloved artist, has died. He was 100.

Smith died at about 9:30 p.m. on Saturday in his home in West Vancouver, said Andy Sylvester, owner of the Equinox Gallery that represented Smith for many years.

“It was an enormous privilege to know him and experience his enthusiasm and brilliance as an artist and educator and generosity as a human being,” Sylvester said Sunday.

Sylvester said Smith kept working as an artist until Christmas 2018.

“Up to 99 he was still doing drawings,” Sylvester said.

But when he could no longer make it into his studio to work every day, he lost the enthusiasm to keep going.

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Facts about Gordon Appelbe Smith

   Publications  Book References:  39
Magazine References:  0

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39 Book References for Gordon Appelbe Smith
Year Author Title Pages Color
2012 Thom, Ian M. Shore, Forest and Beyond: Art from the Audain Collection (Vancouver Art Gallery) 160 Yes
2007 Rogatnick, Abraham J.; Ian M. Thom, Adele Weder B.C. Binning
(Exhibition catalog)
180 Yes
2006 Pearse, Harold (Editor) From Drawing to Visual Culture: A History of Art Education in Canada 318 No
2006 Szewczyk, Monika Paint: A Psychedelic Primer (Vancouver Art Gallery)
(Exhibition catalog)
71 Yes
2004 Thom, Ian and Alan Elder, editors A Modern Life - Art and Design in British Columbia, 1945-1960 (Vancouver Art Gallery)
(Exhibition catalog)
176 Yes
2001 Radul, Judy et al. Art is All Over 166 Yes
2001 Westbridge, Anthony R. and Diana L. Bodnar The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction 622 No
2000 Thom, Ian Art BC: Masterworks from British Columbia 232 Yes
1998 Hunter, Andrew Home Base: Notes to an Installation (Kamloops Art Gallery) 36 Yes
1997 Thom, Ian M. and Andrew Hunter Gordon Smith: The Act of Painting 161 Yes
1994 Carter, Sam et al 64-94: Contemporary Decades (Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design) 160 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 Ed Varney Artropolis 90: Lineages & Linkages 144 No
1990 Watson, Scott Jack Shadbolt 243 Yes
1988 McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal) 417 No
1987 Davis, Geraldine and Ingrid Jenkner Printshops of Canada: Printmaking South of Sixty (Macdonald Stewart Art Centre) 84 Yes
1983 Lindberg, E. Theodore, Augaitis Daina and Elsa Schamis Vancouver School of Art: The Growth Years, 1939-1965 48 Yes
1983 Rombout, Luke Vancouver: Art and Artists, 1931-1983
(Exhibition catalog)
440 Yes
1983 Tuele, Nicholas, Leslie Dawn and Greg Bellerby Printmaking in British Columbia, 1889-1983 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria 64 Yes
1982 Leighton, David; Peggy Leighton, McClelland, Stewart Artists, Builders and Dreamers-50 Years at the Banff School 160 No
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
1979 Lipman, Marci; Louise Lipman Twenty Painters/Twenty Paintings: Contemporary Canadian Art 48 Yes
1978 Graham, Colin Contemporary Works on Paper by B.C. Artists (Traveling Exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)
36 Yes
1977 Phillips, Carol A. Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection, 1973-1976 (Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery) 36 No
1974 Editor, Marlborough Gallery, New York Thirteen Artists from Marlborough Godard, Toronto, Montreal 39 Yes
1974 Harvey, Donald B.C. Artists' Tribute to Colin Graham (Art Gallery of Greater Victoria) 16 No
1974 MacDonald, Colin, S. A Dictionary of Canadian Artists (8 Volumes) 3667 No
1973 Lhalungpa, Lobsang Phuntshok and George Woodcock Mystic Circle: Burnaby Art Gallery 156 Yes
1967 Beny, Roloff To Every Thing There is a Season 324 Yes
1967 Fenwick, Kathleen M. and Yousuf Karsh, Roger Duhamel Canadian Prints and Drawings: With a Collection of Photographs by Yousuf Karsh 64 No
1967 Smith, Gordon and Maurice Tuchman 4th National Burnaby Print Show 40 No
1966 Kilbourn, Elizabeth; Frank Newfeld Great Canadian Painting: A Century of Art 128 Yes
1965 Townsend, William Sixth Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting, 1965 (National Gallery of Canada)
(Exhibition catalog)
47 Yes
1961 James, Philip et al The Fourth Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Art, 1961 (National Gallery of Canada) 28 No
1960 Hubbard, R.H. The National Gallery of Canada: Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Volume III 463 No
1960 McNaim, Ian Ten West Coast Painters/The Art of Emily Carr 16 No
1959 McNairn, Ian S. 7 West Coast Painters (University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery) 24 No
1958 Watters, Reginald E. (editor) British Columbia: A Centennial Anthology 576 Yes
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