William Goodridge Roberts (1904 - 1974)
William Goodridge Roberts was active/lived in Quebec, New Brunswick / Canada, Barbados. William Roberts is known for landscape, still life and portrait painting.

Signed Lower Right
Oil On Board
Painting Size: 12" x 9".
Frame Size: 16" x 13".
Circa 1950-1970s

His solo exhibitions at private galleries include: James Wilson Galleries, Ottawa (1933, 1938); Dominion Gallery, Montreal (1943, 1945, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1962); Galerie R. Creuze, Paris, France (1954); L'Atelier, Quebec City (1951, 1957); Robertson Galleries, Ottawa; (1958,1963); and Roberts Gallery, Toronto (1966).

Posthumously, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario had an exhibition of his drawings in 1976; the Art Gallery of Ontario had "Goodridge Roberts: Paintings from the 1950s and 60s" in 1981; the Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) had "Goodridge Roberts: Selected Works" in 1981; Concordia University Art Gallery, Montreal had an exhibition of "The Figure Works" in 1984; the Art Gallery of Ontario sponsored a show at the Burlington Cultural Centre (Ontario) in 1984; the McMichael Canadian Art Collection had a retrospective (Goodridge Roberts Revealed) in 1998; and the National Gallery of Canada had "Goodridge Roberts: Drawings, Caricatures and Cartoons" from January 14 to April 24, 2009.

His works are avidly collected. They are also in numerous public collections including the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston, Ontario), the Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (B.C.), the Art Gallery of Hamilton (Ontario), the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Confederation Centre Art Gallery & Museum (Charlottetown, P.E.I.), the Joliette Art Museum (Quebec), the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (Kleinburg, Ontario), the Mackenzie Art Gallery (Regina, Saskatchewan), the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa, Ontario), the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Concordia University, Montreal), the Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan), the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax), Museum London (Ontario), the New Brunswick Museum (St. John), the Museum of Quebec (Quebec City), the Ottawa Art Gallery (Ontario), the Winnipeg Art Gallery (Manitoba), the Vancouver Art Gallery (B.C.), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Fredericton, N.B.). There are 28 Roberts works in the National Gallery of Canada and 115 in the Canadian War Museum (Ottawa). According to the Canadian Heritage Information Network there are 326 Roberts works in museums across Canada.

His honours and awards include one of the countries highest honours, appointment as an Officer of the Order of Canada (OC) in 1969. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of New Brunswick in 1960. He also won two Jessie Dow Prizes* (1939, 1957) from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Glazebrook Award for landscape at the National Gallery's 3rd Biennial of Canadian Art in 1959.

As an important Canadian artist his work is illustrated and discussed in most books about Canadian art history and Canadian modern art. There is also the monograph Goodridge Roberts, 1904 - 1974 (1998), by Sandra Paikowsky, and the book Joan & Goodridge: My Life with Goodridge Roberts (2010), by Joan Roberts (see both in AskART book references).

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