68th of 189 works found
Untitled
Artist
Smith, Gordon
Title
Untitled
Technique
serigraph
Date
2004
Dimensions
55.5cm height x 76.2cm width
Type
print
Accession Number
2008.3.32
Collection
Permanent Collection
Gift of the artist
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.