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GOODRIDGE ROBERTS - Represented by Gallery 260
( Canada, 1904 - 1974 )
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Artist: GOODRIDGE ROBERTS ( Canada, 1904 - 1974 ) -
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Main Category: Painting
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Genres: Impressionism
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Biography: (1904 – 1974)
Biography:
Goodridge Roberts was the son of poet and novelist Theodore Goodridge Roberts. He attended L’ecole des beaux arts in Montreal, before heading to New York to train in the Art Students League in 1926. In 1933, he became the first resident artist at Queen's University, where he was employed for three years. He then moved to Montréal, where he joined John Lyman’s Eastern Group of Painters and exhibited with them at New York’s World Fair in 1938. The following year, he became a founding member of the Contemporary Arts School, an organization dedicated to the promotion of awareness of modern art in Montréal. From 1940 to 1952, he taught at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. For two years, from 1943 t0 1945, he served in the Canadian military as an official war artist for the Royal Canadian Air Force, but returned to his teaching position, where he stayed until 1952.In 1953, he was awarded a scholarship that allowed him to study painting in France. He won the Glaxebrook award at the National Gallery of Canada for a landscape painting in 1959. That same year, Roberts was the resident artist at the University of New Brunwick. A decade later, he held his last major retrospective at the National Art Gallery of Canada, before his death in 1974.
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