Creator Record
Metadata
Name |
Smith, Gordon |
Other names |
Smith, Gordon Appelbe |
Dates & places of birth and death |
b. 18 June 1919 in East Brighton, England d. 18 January 2020 in West Vancouver |
Nationality |
Canadian |
Role |
Artist |
Biography |
Gordon Smith (1919-2020) was born in England and moved to Canada at the age of 15. He studied at the Vancouver School of Art with notable local artists: Jack Shadbolt, B.C. Binning, Charles H. Scott and Grace Melvin. Though Smith was well known for his abstract expressionist paintings, in the 1960s he began to experiment with op art, flatness and hard-edged line. Best known as a painter and a printmaker he also produced a number of murals for public sites including the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, the MacMillan Bloedel Building and the Vancouver Law Library. He has participated in numerous exhibitions and his work is held in public and private collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institute, the Carnegie Institute, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum. |
