Attributed to Robert Burns Hedrick, it does not have a COA. Medium: oil board, beautiful multicolor abstract, 26 x 22 inches. Private owner from Nebraska.
Biography: A prominent Canadian painter, draftsman, sculptor, printmaker and educator, Robert Burns Hedrick was born in Windsor, Ontario and has been living in Toronto, Ontario since the early 1950s. His works are collected by many major Canadian museums.His mediums include oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache*, pastel, ink, collage*, lithography*, stencil, serigraph*, bronze, aluminum, welded steel, clay, plaster, paper, balsawood, carved wood, lacquered wood, and installation*. His subjects are figures, nudes, heads, organic shapes, landscapes, still life, flowers and pure abstraction - shape, color and texture. His styles include Abstract Expressionism*, Geometric Abstraction*, Hard Edge Painting*, Color Field Painting*, Minimalism* and Op Art*. AskART images have some excellent illustrations of his work. The paintings titled Altitude and Enroute show his most well known early painting style, and the sculpture Pair of Candlesticks was one of two of his bronzes included in the National Gallery of Canada's Canadian centennial exhibition "Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art". (2)He is usually described as having no formal art training in his early years; however, he did attend Beal Technical School, London, Ontario (c.1950), and studied art there under Herb Ariss. In 1953 Hedrick received a scholarship to attend the Instituto Allende*, San Miguel, Mexico, where he studied under James Pinto and Rico Lebrun (1953, 1954 and 1956 - 1957). Hedrick also traveled to Ibiza, Spain, on a Canada Council* grant, in 1962 and he visited Spain again in 1969. (3) (4)His teaching career includes positions at the New School of Art [Three Schools of Art*], Toronto (1965 - 1969 and 1974 - 1977); the Ontario College of Art*, Toronto (1965 - 1966 and c. 1983 - 1988+); and Arts' Sake, Toronto (1977).Hedrick exhibited with the Ontario Society of Artists* (1955, 1963 and 1964) and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts* (1963 and 1964). His works were included in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Spring Exhibitions (1960 - 1968); the Third (1959), Fourth (1961), and Fifth (1963) Biennial exhibitions of Canadian Painting organized by the National Gallery of Canada; and the Third Paris Biennial Exhibition, France (1963). They were included in "Five Canadians", Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (1961); "Toronto '61", Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec (1962); "Arts of Canada", Wayne State University, Detroit (1963); "Sculpture '67", Toronto City Hall (1967); "Three Hundred Years Of Canadian Art", National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1967); and "Toronto Painting: 1953 - 1965", National Gallery of Canada (1972).His works have also been included in solo and group exhibitions at prominent commercial galleries such as The Picture Loan Society*, Toronto; The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Toronto; The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto; Dorothy Cameron Gallery, Toronto; Koffler Gallery, Toronto; and Jerrold Morris Gallery, Toronto.According to the Canadian Heritage Information Network* and individual museum websites, Hedrick's works are in the permanent collections of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston, Ontario), Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (B.C.), Art Gallery of Hamilton (Ontario), Art Gallery of Mississauga (Ontario), Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Art Gallery of Windsor (Ontario), Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa, Ontario), Dalhousie Art Gallery (Halifax, Nova Scotia), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), Mackenzie Art Gallery (Regina, Saskatchewan), Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan), Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art (Quebec), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Quebec), Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto, Ontario), Museum London (Ontario), Owens Art Gallery (Sackville, N.B.), Quebec Museum of Fine Arts (Quebec City), Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa, Ontario), The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery (St. John's, NFLD), University of Lethbridge Art Gallery (Lethbridge, Alberta), Vancouver Art Gallery (B.C.), Winnipeg Art Gallery (Manitoba) and the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa). (5).

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