Urquhart, Anthony Morse

  • Wiki: See full biography at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Urquhart
    • Anthony Morse Urquhart, CM RCA LL.D. (April 9, 1934 – January 26, 2022) was a Canadian painter. He was recognized in the late 1950s and early 1960s as one of Canada’s pioneering abstractionists, having been variously linked with the Toronto painters associated with The Isaacs Gallery and The Heart of London group that included Jack Chambers, Greg Curnoe and Murray Favro.
    • Since the 1960s Urquhart has followed an independent and autonomous path in his art, centred upon his distinctive “box” format. In 1968, with Jack Chambers and Kim Ondaatje, he helped found Canadian Artists’ Representation/Le Front des artistes Canadiens (CARFAC), the artists’ ‘union’ that first established a fee schedule for public museum and gallery exhibitions of contemporary artists.
    • In 1965 Urquhart began to make paintings on boxes, which required the viewer to move around to see the whole work. They were tiny cubes six inches high that did not open, and with landscapes painted on all sides. By 1967 some of them had grown to seven feet in height, and were essentially three-dimensional paintings.
  • Fourth Great Grandson of Proven United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=2474
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