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Frank Leonard Brooks Born in London, UK, 1911 Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Associate Canadian Group of Painters Canadian Painters-Etchers and Engravers Canadian Society of Graphic Art Ontario Society of Artists Frank Brooks arrived in Canada in 1912. Primarily self-taught, he did study at the Ontario College of Art and taught at the Central Technical School. He became an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1939. He joined the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve in May 1943. During his posting as a war artist (August 1944-May 1946), he painted the movements of an aircraft carrier in the waters of Scotland and the activities of mine sweepers and motor torpedo boats in the English channel off Norma.ndy After the war, he obtained a grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs to study art in Mexico. He taught for several years in San Miguel de Allende, north of Mexico City. Brooks has published a number of works on watercolour and oil painting techniques. Copied directly from: http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/ war-artists/ |
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| Frank Brooks was a Canadian war artist and an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Leonard Brooks. Frank Leonard Brooks. |
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| La Parete Gallery – Fine Art Gallery - Toronto - Canada La Parete Gallery is recognized for its selection of Fine Art: Canadian Art - Native Art - Inuit Art - First Nations Art - International Art |
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| Artists: Antonio, Ann Beam, Carl Beam, Molly Lamb Bobak, David Bolduc, Miller Brittain, Christopher Broadhurst, Frank Leonard Brooks, Israel Broytman, A.J. Casson, Antonio Cardarelli, J. Cardinal-Schubert, Jack Chambers, Konrad Cramer, Eegyvudluk, Dorothy Francis, Pal Fried, Joachim Gauthier, Richard Gorman, Giovanni Guarlotti Tom Hodgson, Gershon Iskowitz, Lee L'Clerc, Maud Lewis, Kenneth Lochhead, René Marcil, Norval Morrisseau, Robert Natkin, Louis de Niverville, Anna Noéh, William Ogilvie, Frère Jérôme Paradis, William Ronald, Rolph Scarlett, Gerald Scott, P.C. Sheppard, Roland Strasser, Harold Town |
