Artist

Lumsden, Ernest Stephen

Title

Entrance to Altar of Heaven

Technique

etching

Dimensions

19.2cm height x 24.4cm width

Type

print

Accession Number

1987.114

Owner

City of Burnaby

Collection

Permanent Collection

Gift of David Lemon

Ernest S. Lumsden (1883-1948) was a distinguished painter and an authority on etching. When an illness prevented him from continuing his post as a naval cadet in the mid-1890s, he enrolled at the Reading Art School in London where he studied drawing and painting. His first exhibition of etchings was in 1906 at the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers Black and White exhibition, and he subsequently went on to exhibit across Europe before accepting a position as an instructor at the newly created Edinburgh College of Art in 1908. Thanks to a generous donation by David Lemon, the Burnaby Art Gallery holds an extraordinary collection of over 600 Ernest Lumsden prints.