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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Oil on masonite
Signed; titled and dated 1953 on reverse,
Roberts Inventory number 95
20” x 24”
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Oil on masonite
Signed lower right
25’ x 32”
Private collection, Montreal
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Oil on masonite
Signed lower right
Inscribed on reverse with Goodridge Roberts inventory number 1834
12” x 16”
Provenance:Private collection, Montreal
Roberts Gallery, Toronto
Kastel Gallery, Montreal
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Pastels
Signed lower right
25” x 32”
Provenance: Private collection, Montreal
Kaspar Gallery, Toronto
Oil on masonite
Signed lower right
20” x 16”
Provenance: Private collection, Montreal
Galérie Bernard Desroches, Montreal
“Still Life with Apples”, 1956
Oil on masonite
Signed lower left
12” x 16”
Provenance: Estate of Paul Kastel
Robert Ayre, Montreal(Author, editor and art critic
for the Montreal Star)
Exhibition History: Goodridge Roberts retrospective exhibition
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
14 August- 7 September 1969
Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown
5 October- 26 October 1969
Art Gallery of Hamilton
9 November - 30 November 1969
Musée du Quebec, Quebec
14 December 1969- 4 January 1970
London Park Library and Art Museum
18 January- 8 February 1970
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
13 March- 12 April 1970
Illustrated in “Goodridge Roberts Retrospective Exhibition”, page 128, cat. No. 105