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Maxwell Bates

Artist Biography

 

Born
Calgary, Alberta, 1906
 
Education
Art classes, Provincial Institute of Technology and Art, 1926-27 (under Lars Haukaness)
Brooklyn Museum Art School, New York, 1949 (under Max Beckmann and Abraham Rattner)
 
Experience
Instructor, evening classes in life drawing and children's classes, Provincial Institute of Technology and Art, 1948-49
Co-Juror of Winnipeg Exhibition, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1955
 
Awards
1967  Awarded the Centennial Medal
1971  Received LL.D. from the University of Calgary
 
One-Man Exhibitions
1934  Wertheim Gallery, Manchester
1937  Wertheim Gallery, London
1947  Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary
1947  Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
1947  Saskatoon Art Centre, Saskatoon
1948  Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary
1950  Queen's University, Kingston
1952  Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary
1952  Calgary Allied Art Centre, Calgary
1956  University of Manitoba Art School, Winnipeg
1956  Greenwich Gallery, Toronto
1959  Calgary Allied Art Centre, Calgary
1959  Provincial Institute of Technology, Calgary
1959  Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary
1960  Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina (retrospective)
1961  Calgary Allied Arts Centre, Calgary
1962  Here and Now Gallery, Toronto
1962  Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria
1962  Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary
1963  Ego Interiors, Victoria
1964  Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver
1964  University of Victoria, Victoria
1965  Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary
1965  Grant Gallery, Winnipeg
1966  Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria (retrospective)
1967  Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver
1967  University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver
1968  Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver
1968  Print Gallery, Victoria
1968  Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg
1968  Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg (retrospective)
1968  Allied Arts Centre, Calgary
1969  Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver
1969  Print Gallery, Victoria
1969  Annual Exhibition CSGA, Oshawa (retrospective)
1969  Memorial University, St. John's
1970  Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver
1970  Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg
1970  Upstairs Gallery, Edmonton
1970  Print Gallery, Victoria
1971  Alberta College of Art, Calgary
1971  Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary
1971  Calgary Galleries, Calgary
1971  Print Gallery, Victoria (2 exhibitions)
1972  Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg
1972  Upstairs Gallery, Edmonton
1972  Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (retrospective)
1973  Galerie Allen, Vancouver
1974  Galerie Allen, Vancouver
1974  Erindale College, University of Toronto, Toronto
1975  Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (extension exhibition)
1975  Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg
1975  Upstairs Gallery, Edmonton
1976  Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver
1976  Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria (retrospective)
1977  Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver
1977  Backroom Gallery, Victoria
1977  Bau-xi Gallery, Toronto
1978  Backroom Gallery, Victoria
1978  Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary
1979  Sundance Gallery, Calgary
1981  Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
1982  Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria (retrospective)
1982  Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, Medicine Hat
1982  Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver
1992  Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary
 
Two- and Three-Man Exhibitions
1956  Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg (with Cecil Richards)
1957  New Design Gallery, Vancouver (with John Snow)
1958  National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver (Canadian Artists Series 1: Bates/ Humphrey)
1960  Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria (with John Snow)
1960  Here and Now Gallery, Toronto (with John Snow and Roloff Beny)
1964  New Design Gallery, Vancouver (with John Snow)
1965  Gallery Pascal, Toronto (with J.N. Humphrey)
1967  Art Gallery of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (with Eric Metcalfe)
1969  Seligmann Gallery, Seattle (with Herbert Siebner)
1971  Print Gallery, Victoria (with Roy Kiyooka)
1974  Canada House Gallery, London (with Peter Daglish)
1977  University of Calgary, Calgary (with Peter Daglish and John Snow)
1979  Kyle's Gallery, Victoria (with John Snow)
1988  Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary (with John Snow)
1989  Muttart Gallery, Calgary (with John Snow and Barry Smylie)
 
Group Exhibitions
1928  Calgary Art Club, Calgary
1930  Exhibition of Canadian Painting, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1930  Opportunity Gallery, New York
1930  Laurel Gallery, New York
1932  Three Painters and Three Sculptors, Bloomsbury Gallery, London
1932-39  The Twenties Group, London
1936-39  Storram Gallery, London
1937  Artists' International Association Exhibition, London
1939  Royal Academy, London
1947  Calgary Group, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
1947  Canadian Society of Graphic Art (and in subsequent years)
1948  Summer Exhibition, Indiana University
1949  Western Canadian Painters, Calgary Allied Arts Centre, Calgary
1949  Western Scene, Western Canadian Art Circuit
1950  Directions for 1950, Laurel Gallery, New York
1951  Western Canadian Artists, Dominion Gallery, Montreal
1951  Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor (and in subsequent years)
1953  Canadian Painting, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1953  Progressive Painters of Western Canada, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
1955  First Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (and in subsequent years)
1955  Golden Jubilee Exhibition, Calgary
1956  Canadian Group of Painters (and in subsequent years)
1956  Four Calgary Painters, Regina and Montreal
1957  Montreal Spring Show, Montreal (and in subsequent years)
1957  Winnipeg Show, Winnipeg (and in subsequent years)
1958  First International Biennial of Color Lithography, Cincinnati
1958  Philadelphia Print Club, Philadelphia
1959  Canadian Watercolors and Graphics Today (American Federation of Arts)
1960  New Directions in Printmaking, Chicago
1960  Second International Biennial Exhibition of Prints, Tokyo
1960  Canadian Paintings and Graphics, Mexico City and Guadalajara
1960  Here and Now Gallery, Toronto
1963  Master Canadian Painters and Sculptors, London, Ontario
1964  Surrealism in Canadian Painting, London, Ontario
1967  Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver (and in subsequent years)
1967  Painting in Canada, Canadian Government Pavilion, Montreal
1967  Annual RCA Exhibition (and in subsequent years)
1967  Western Printmakers, Vancouver
1968  Directions in Western Canada Printmaking, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
1972  The Limners, Victoria
1976  Tapestries, Toronto
1976  The Limners, Toronto
1980  Dalhousie Drawing Exhibition, Halifax
1983  Winnipeg West, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton
1986  Founders of the Alberta College of Art, Calgary
1989  Christmas Cards, Triangle Gallery, Calgary
1992  Alberta Society of Artist - Sixty Years, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton
 
Collections
National Gallery of Canada
Canada Council Art Bank
Department of External Affairs
Art Gallery of Ontario
Alberta Art Foundation
Tate Gallery, London, England
Wertheim Collection, England
Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Vancouver Art Gallery
Glenbow Museum and Art Gallery
Many other art galleries, corporate and private collections
 
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