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Peter Clapham (PC) Sheppard

Peter Clapham (P.C.) Sheppard (1882 - 1965) was active/lived in Ontario / Canada.  Peter Sheppard is known for Portraits, still life, landscape, marine, and genre painting.

The following text was submitted by Louis Gagliardi, Curator, P.C. Sheppard Collection:Peter Clapham Sheppard A.R.C.A, O.S.A. (1882-1965)


Peter Clapham Sheppard occupies a place among a notable generation of artists that pioneered and firmly established a distinctively Canadian school of art. In the years preceding the Great War and in the decade to follow, these Toronto-based artists broke away from the academic, the often dull and sentimental images of the French and Dutch aesthetic, to focus their attentions on the beauty and bounty of the Canadian landscape - specifically, the waters, forests, and skies of Ontario's hinterland. They painted these elements, timelessly transforming under the changing visages of the seasons, in a new and vibrant modernist idiom.

P.C. Sheppard trained, sketched, and exhibited alongside such peers as Tom Thomson as well as others who would soon command and sustain national attention under the collective name of The Group of Seven. Due   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7100 characters.]  Artist bio

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