Artist: Alex Colville (1920 - )
Nationality: Canadian
Movement: Modern Canadian School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
As a child, Canadian artist Alex Colville battled pneumonia and was encourages to draw during his recovery periods. Originally intending to go into law and politics, Colville was persuaded otherwise by his mentor Stanley Royale. He spent three years as a war artist and then taught at Mount Allison University until 1963. His paintings are executed in realist style using the pointillism of the post-impressionist movement.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Chuck Close - Alex 1991 color woodcut on pap Hirshhorn Museum American
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Artist: Alex Grinager Title: Boys Bathing Date: 1894 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.34 x
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Alex Katz Red Cap 1989
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Alex Bannerman Cibber 18th century
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Alex Katz Joan 1986
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Alex Katz Ursula 1990
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Alex Katz Swimmer 1990
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A. T. Alex The Warriors 19th century
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Alex Katz John Ashbury 1986
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Alex Katz Swamp Maple color lithograph 20th century
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Alex Katz Beach Sandals 1987
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Alex Katz Black Brook 1989
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A. T. Alex Old man, resting etching 19th century
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A. T. Alex Night Patrol 19th century
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A. T. Alex Playing Piano 19th century
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A. T. Alex Horse Market 19th century
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Alex Katz Working proof 1 for Ursula 20th century
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Alex Katz Working proof 4 for Ursula 20th century
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Alex Katz Working proof 2 for Ursula 20th century
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Alex Katz Working proof 3 for Ursula 20th century
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Artist: Alex Katz Title: Al Held Date: 1976 Medium: color pochoir Dimensions: H.15-3/8 x W.15-1/2
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A. T. Alex Old Ferry Boat, Czech 19th century
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Alex Bannerman 1. James Gibbs, 2.A perspective View Of Ratcliffe Library. 18th century
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Jacob Andreas Friderich (Fridrich) Alex Sigis , Bishop, etc. 17th - 18th century
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Alex Jean Fournier Title: Ruins in Old Normandy Date: 19th century - 20th century
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Alex Katz Black Shoes color aquatint and softground etching 1987
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Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont Portrait of Alex Desenne Engraving 18th - 19th century
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Alex Katz Working proof 8 for The Green Cap Color woodcut 1985
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Alex Katz Working proof 1 for The Green Cap Color woodcut 1985
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Alex Katz Working proof 4 for The Green Cap Color woodcut 1985
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Alex Katz Working proof 3 for The Green Cap Color woodcut 1985
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Alex Katz Working proof 7 for The Green Cap Color woodcut 1985
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Alex Katz Working proof 6 for The Green Cap Color woodcut 1985
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Alex Katz Working proof 2 for The Green Cap Color woodcut 1985
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Alex Katz Working proof 3 for Swimmer Color woodcut 1990
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Alex Katz Working proof 1 for Swimmer Color woodcut 1990
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Alex Katz Working proof 2 for Swimmer Color woodcut 1990
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Alex Katz - Cow 1955 oil on board The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Alex Katz Reclining Figure Color aquatint on Somerset Satin paper 1987
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Alex Katz Working proof 5 for The Green Cap Color woodcut with graphite additions by the artist 1985
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Alex Katz The Green Cap Color woodcut printed on handmade Tosa Kozo paper 1985
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Alex Katz Working proof 9 for The Green Cap Color woodcut with graphite inscriptions by the artist and added collage element 1985
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Alex Katz - Ada and Vincent in the Car 1972 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Alex Katz - Ada in Aqua 1963 oil on canvas New Orleans Museum of Art American
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Alex Katz - Ann And Billy c. 1981 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Alex Katz - Passing 1962-63 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Alex Katz - Adam and Eve 1985 charcoal Arkansas Arts Center American
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Wenceslas Hollar Alex Hendersoni 17th century
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Julian Alden Weir Alex Webb Weir oil on canvas 1877
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Alex Katz - Ada's Garden 2000 oil on canvas Des Moines Art Center American
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Alex Katz Untitled, between pgs. 19 and 20, in the book Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror by John Ashbery (San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1984) Lithograph on round hand-made paper made by Twinrocker Mill 1984
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Alex Katz - Large Head of Vincent 1982 aquatint Hofstra Museum American
Museum of Fine Arts -
Workshop of Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, Dutch, about 1525-1569 Combat between Carnival and Lent Oil
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Florentine Poet Alexandre Cabanel (French, 1823-1889)Oil on wood; 12 x 19 7/8 in. (30.5 x
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Marty Links "I know Alvin's away...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink~ 1951
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Marty Links Emmy Lou: Fashion ..., for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink~ 1952
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Marty Links " Notice somethingdifferent...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink~ 1952
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Marty Links "This is the day...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou ~~~pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1953
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Marty Links " When will Gregory realize...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink~ 1951
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Marty Links "He's sort of a spare....", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink~ 1951
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Marty Links "Well, gotta get my beauty sleep...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink~ 1951
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Marty Links "But he won't leave...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1951
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Marty Links "Forever is such a long time...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink~ 1951
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Marty Links "The way you behave yourself...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink and blue pencil 1951
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Marty Links "When I look into his eyes...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1953
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Marty Links "The ring looks familiar, Alvin...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen andblack ink~ 1951
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Marty Links "Well g'night folks, I'm going to bed early...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink 1951
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Marty Links "Emmy-Lou's decided to go steady...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink 1951
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Marty Links Emmy Lou,: Where's my new shirt...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1952
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Marty Links Emmy Lou: "And the reason I trust Alvin... ..., for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou ~pen and black ink~ 1952
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Marty Links "Picture*he really doesn't have three eyes!', for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1953
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Marty Links "To prove we're engaged!", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and back ink and blue pencil 1952
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Marty Links "But somehow knowing Alvin has never been...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1951
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Marty Links "What's your ambition in life...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou ~~pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1953
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Marty Links "I wouldn't walk across the street...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1951
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Marty Links I've got so many wonderful plans...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou ~~pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1953
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Marty Links "Taffy knows all the right people...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink and blue pencil~~ 1953
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Marty Links "INo wonder Miss Roth's class is crowded...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink~ 1951
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Marty Links "I know they're our boyfriends' initials...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink and blue pencil~~pen and black ink 1951
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Rackstraw Downes Untitled (Aquatint Test #2) 20th century
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Rackstraw Downes Untitled (Aquatint Test #1) 20th century
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Rackstraw Downes Untitled (Aquatint Test #3) 20th century
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Rackstraw Downes Untitled (Aquatint Test #4) 20th century
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Marty Links "I told Herbie not to come back...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1951
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Marty Links "And look what being a redhead did for Rita Hayworth", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1951
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Marty Links "Anyway we won't hafta worry about money...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1951
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Marty Links "The man I marry must have lots of charm...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1952
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Marty Links "Misplace your raincoat again, Nate?", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1952
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Marty Links "Yes Alvin, EmmyLou is late coming home..." , for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink~ 1951
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Marty Links "Dad, Alvin mentioned something about a dowry...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1951
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Marty Links "I'm sorry I can't accept your ring, Gregory...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou ~pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1953
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Rackstraw Downes Untitled (Aquatint Test #5) 20th century
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Marty Links "Mom, Herbie wants to go steady...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink and blue pencil~~~pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1951
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Marty Links "I can remember when we used to get twice as sick ..., for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou" pen and black ink and blue pencil~~pen and black ink and blue pencil~pen and black ink 1953
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Marty Links "You're right-Alvin and I aren't speaking...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink, blue pencil, and opaque white watercolor~ 1951
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Marty Links "Georgie dear, are you sure...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink,blue pencil, and opaque white watercolor~ 1952
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Marty Links "But Mom, I don't feel miserable at all...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink, blue pencil, and opaque white watercolor~ 1952
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Rackstraw Downes Working proof 1 for Untitled (Street 2), unpublished Etching 1986
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Rackstraw Downes Latham Square Softground etching 1984
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Rackstraw Downes Untitled drawing (blue aquatint) Drawing in colored pencil and watercolor 1986

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (10)
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University of Toronto Art Centre: Alex Colville: Return , Paintings, Drawings and Prints 1994 - 2002
Alex Colville (b. 1920) is one of Canada's most renowned artists, who has garnered a world-wide following. The quiet mystery inherent in all his works has intrigued his public since he first began exhibiting in the early 1950s. Coupled with his ee...
September Song, Soho MultiMedia Festival: Call for Entries: International Open Image 2001
We have brought together some of the respected names in the industry to sponsor and view entrants work. The Colville Place Gallery, Internet Cameras Direct, MGI Software Corporation, DC Pro Europe, SIS - Stock Illustration Source, Hannah Gal, C...
Colville Place Gallery: Enchanted: Julie Clark, Alexa de Ferranti and Charlotte Prodger
Julie Clark, video
The video pieces and drawings use found footage of little accidents recorded from You've Been Framed to examine moments of embarrassment, when one feels suddenly vulnerable or exposed by a physical kind of lapse and loss of...
Colville Place Gallery: Tom Kemp: No Concept
What if it were possible to record a performance of human motion as a still picture, full of clarity and intimately connected to the original movementsNULL Such a technique is not only available but we all use it every day in the form of ...
Colville Place Gallery: 256 Colours: Horton Jennings
Jennings continues, I tend to identify my colour choices with emotions, although I don't think blue is sad, rather I see it as a form or a hollow space. Colour suggests spaces to me, and spaces suggest emotions. Rather than talk about my emotion...
Colville Place Gallery: Visiting American Artist 1st time in UK Laurence Garte
On the brink of the 21st century we are faced with a different criteria for living. Our society is all about Consumption, GM Foods, Petroleum, The Media, Television. Just how much more can we absorb, consume or digestNULL  Today we are living in a...
Colville Place Gallery: Marty St James: Betweeness
A number of my previous performance and video art works were to do with a sense of staticness and in contrast my static image print works are often to do with movement. This allows me an artistic freedom within the form and content. Marty St....
Eiteljorg Museum of American and Western Art: After the Storm: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art 2001,
In only its second presentation, the biennial Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art awards $20,000 to each of five artists chosen by a panel of respected selectors and to a master artist named by the Eiteljorg Museum. The program inclu...
Colville Place Gallery: The Best Way to View the Past is to Invent it...Alternity by Steven Cook
Alternity began about 5 years ago when I started collecting old photographs and carte de visites of people. I'd be sifting through thousands of the things and every once in a while there would be a ...
Colville Place Gallery: Kerry John Andrews
As an inter-disciplinary digital artist and composer, Andrews current practice is focused upon constructing work that has no single medium, but transfers ideas across forms and languages, creating pieces that reside outside their physical forms...

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