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Profiles of some of past members of the Winnipeg Sketch Club Alex J. Musgrove<\/strong> untitled woodcut <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Charles Comfort Comfort held weekly two hour life model drawing sessions in his Toronto studio at 25 Severn Street in 1929 and 1930. These were regularly attended by Lauren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, George Pepper and Kathleen Daly. The model was paid $1.50 per hour with each of the artists present contributing to the fee. It\u2019s fairly safe to assume that these sessions had their inspiration in Comfort\u2019s previous experience at the Winnipeg Sketch Club.<\/p>\n Prairie Road 1925 Charles Comfort (1900 -1994)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald<\/strong> Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald (1890-1956)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Frank Johnston<\/strong> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Eric Bergman<\/strong> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jack Markell
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\nBorn 1882, in Edinburgh, died 1952 in Winnipeg. Came to Winnipeg in 1913 as curator and teacher of the newly founded Gallery and School of Art. In 1914 he founded, and was first president of “The Winnipeg Art Students Club” (later Winnipeg Sketch Club). Later taught in private art school “The Studio”. He was curator of the Winnipeg Art Gallery 1932-49. Painter, teacher and very influential in the art life of Manitoba. He was president of the MSA, 1931-35. Retrospective Memorial Show: Winnipeg Art Gallery 1964.<\/p>\n![\"Muspgrove\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/winnipegsketchclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Muspgrove.jpg?resize=252%2C300\")
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\ncollection of Joyce Davies<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>A Scot whose family immigrated in 1912 to settle in Winnipeg, he worked in commercial art in Winnipeg before moving to Toronto. He frequently returned to Winnipeg, but found being close to the Group of Seven and the centre of activity in Toronto important. His landscape work was matched by some memorable figurative images which have prompted comparisons with the American regionalist painters of the Depression.Comfort went on to be President of the Royal Canadian Academy 1957-60 and Director of the National Gallery of Canada 1960-65.1<\/sup><\/p>\n![\"Comfort\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/winnipegsketchclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Comfort.jpg?resize=215%2C300\")
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\nHart House permanent Collection<\/p>\n
\nBrought up in Winnipeg, he remained rooted there all his life. Important visits to the U.S., including as a student in the early 1920s, convinced him of the historical importance of classic modernism, particularly the work of Seurat and Cezanne. Teaching at Winnipeg School of Art occupied much of his time and his art moved slowly but surely, culminating after the Second World War, in delicate still lifes and abstract work which only have become recognized as ranking alongside his landscape masterpieces of the 1930s, when he was briefly a member of the Group of Seven.<\/p>\n![\"FitzGerald\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/winnipegsketchclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FitzGerald.jpg?resize=300%2C235\")
<\/a>Poplar Woods 1929
\nWinnipeg Art Gallery collection<\/span><\/p>\n
\nJohnston is an enigmatic figure. One of the original Group of Seven, he emerged from a Toronto education and a background in commercial art. He produced some of the most distinctive images in the Group’s early exhibitions, yet his work became formalistic and decorative. After he left Toronto to be Principal of Winnipeg School of Art, 1920-24, he became distant from the Group, and by the time of his return to Toronto in the later 1920s became more hostile, eventually being one of the signatories to the petition raised against the National Gallery of Canada in 1932 as a protest by the Royal Canadian Academy.<\/p>\n![\"Johnston\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/winnipegsketchclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Johnston.jpg?resize=300%2C225\")
<\/a>Fire Swept Algoma, 1920
\nNational Gallery of Canada<\/p>\n
\nBorn 1893 in Dresden, Germany, died 1958 in Winnipeg. Moved to Winnipeg on 1914 where he spent the rest of his life as a commercial artist with Brigdens Ltd.He was mostly self trained and developed a technique in wood engraving. He created very delicate drawings in pencil and silverpoint. Widely recognized during his lifetime in national and international exhibitions. He was president of the MSA, 1940-45.<\/p>\n![\"Bergman\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/winnipegsketchclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Bergman.jpg?resize=300%2C226\")
<\/a>Victoria Beach, 1938, silverpoint
\nWinnipeg Art Gallery<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Born 1919 in Winnipeg. Studied in Winnipeg and at the Art Students’ League in New York. Painted and taught at his own art school in Winnipeg. Moved to the West Coast around 1960.<\/p>\n
![\"Markell\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/winnipegsketchclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Markell.jpg?resize=248%2C300\")
<\/a>The Wedding Shawl, oil on masonite,![\"Sissons\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/winnipegsketchclub.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Sissons.jpg?resize=239%2C300\")
<\/a>Rocks by the Docks, watercolour, 1961