Click image to return Alan Caswell Collier
Canadian O.S.A., R.C.A.  [1911-1990]

PRIMORDIAL LAND, SOUTH SHORE OF DEVON ISLAND, N.W.T., OVER LANCASTER SOUND

Oil on canvas
36 x 72 ins.

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Click image to return Alan Caswell Collier
Canadian O.S.A., R.C.A.  [1911-1990]

SKEENA RIVER BELOW CEDARVALE, BC

Oil on board
12 x 16 ins.

Sold @ $ 3,520
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Canadian O.S.A., R.C.A.  [1911-1990]

EVENING LIGHT FROM BOB RUSSELL'S FARM, NORTHWEST OF DRUMHELLER, ALTA.

Oil on board
24 x 36 ins.

Sold @ $ 10,250
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Collier was born in Toronto, Ontario and attended the Ontario College of Art, studying under J.E.H. MacDonald, J.W. Beatty, Frederick Haines, F.S. Challener, Yvonne McKague Housser and Franklin Carmichael (1929-1933).  He traveled on the CPR across Canada and worked in mines to finance his further studies that took him, in 1937, to New York and the Art Student’s League where he studied under Howard Trafton.  He was an advertising artist in New York in 1929, and joined the Canadian Army in 1943.  He resumed his career as an advertising artist after the war.  In 1951 he returned to the same mines he had worked at in the 1930’s to paint from the miners point of view.  A landscape, cityscape and painter of industrial subjects and murals he worked in oil, watercolour and acrylics.  Collier taught at the Ontario College of Art (1955-1967) and painted in several parts of Canada including the High Arctic.  He exhibited at the Royal Canadian Academy between 1948 and 1970.  His work is represented in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada.