Artist

Smith, Gordon

Title

West Coast Beach

Technique

lithograph

Date

1992

Dimensions

106cm height x 75.5cm width

Type

print

Accession Number

1993.146

Owner

City of Burnaby

Collection

Permanent Collection

From the Furlan Collection of Contemporary Canadian Prints|Gift of R. and L. Furlan

Gordon Applebe Smith (1919- ) was born in Sussex, England and is a Canadian painter, printmaker, sculptor and teacher living in West Vancouver. Smith moved to Winnipeg from Sussex in 1933, where he studied at the Winnipeg School of Art. After serving as an intelligence officer in WWII, Smith moved to Vancouver to continue studying art and eventually become an instructor. Smith has been extremely active in the art community in Vancouver; in 1989 he co-founded Artists for Kids, an organization whose mission is to provide enriching art education for young people. Awards and Honours include First Prize at the Biennial of Canadian Art (1955), Senior Fellowship from the Canada Council (1960), an Honourary Doctorate from Simon Fraser University (1973), Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s Allied Arts Medal (1980), Professor Emeritus from the University of British Columbia (1983), and an Honourary Doctorate from Emily Carr College of Art and Design (1995). Gordon Smith received the Governor General's Award for Visual Art in 2009, and has been appointed to both the Order of British Columbia and the Order of Canada.