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Stanley Cosgrove, an important
figure in Canadian art, was born in 1911, Montreal.
He studied at École des Beaux-Arts in Montreal under
Charles Maillard, Henri Charpentier and Joseph
St-Charles(1928-1935), and at the Art Association of
Montreal under Edwin Holgate(1936). During this period he
was influenced by French artistes George Bracque and
Georges Rouault. In 1939 he received a Quebec
Provincial Scholarship to study in Europe for four years,
but war broke out and he went instead to New York, then
Mexico where he apprenticed with the great masters
Rodriguez Lozano, José Clement Orozco and Rivera. While in
Mexico he became interested in, and worked on, fresco
paintings, as well as still life, landscapes and street
scenes. He returned to Canada in 1944 and concentrated for
a while on still life and portraits, some more
representational than others. Later he started
fresco-style paintings of tree-lined and wooded
landscapes, still life, figure studies, and portraits. He
taught art at l'École des Beaux-Arts in Montreal(1944-70).
In 1944, he joined to the Dominion Gallery in Montreal,
which was to distribute and sell his works for 20 years on
Canadian and American art markets. He exhibited at the RCA
between 1950-54 and at the MMFA between 1936-64. |
