William Goodridge Roberts (1904-1974)
RCA, OSA, CAS, CGP, CSGA, CSPWC, OC (1904-1974). Born in Barbados, Roberts studied at L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Montreal (1923-1925), and under John Sloan and Boardman Robinson at the Art Students’ League, New York City (1927-1929). He was an official war artist with the RCAF in England in 1943-1945 and also painted in France in 1953-1954. Working in oil, watercolour, pastel, gouache, charcoal, and pencil, his subjects include landscape, figures, still life, and interiors with nudes. Many of his landscapes depict the Laurentians and Eastern Townships in Quebec, and Georgian Bay in Ontario. He works in a loose expressionist style. In 1933-1936, he was resident artist at Queen’s University, Kingston. He lived in Fredericton, New Brunswick as a child; and taught in Ottawa and Kingston, Ontario; and at l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Montreal Quebec (1939-1952). He died in Montreal. He was a founding member of the Eastern Group of Painters and the Contemporary Arts Society.
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Still Life
Oil on masonite
Signed lower right
25” x32”
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Still Life
Oil on canvas board
Signed.
Provenance: Kastel Gallery, Montreal
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
Peter Ohler fine arts, Calgary
Private collection, Montréal
Estate of the artist.
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Still Life with Blue Cloth
Oil on masonite
Signed; titled and dated 1953 on reverse,
Roberts Inventory number 95
20” x 24”
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