Artist

Elliott, Winston

Material Type

Fine Art

Accession Number

2011.006.004

Date Range From

[ca. 1965]

Artifact Category

print

Height

91 cm

Width

60 cm

Material

poster

Credit / Acknowledgement

Gift of the Artist

Artist Biography

In a career spanning over sixty years Winston Elliott produced a legacy of portraits, paintings and illustrations. Captured in his evocative renderings is the spirit of the decades between the World War II and the present day. At the age of eighteen, Elliott enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy. With no formal art training, he drew portraits of his shipmates in his spare time. His exceptional talent in portraiture advanced his career as an artist and he was provided with his own studio in the Naval Art Section in Ottawa. Elliott was assigned to draw decorated Canadian naval heroes and worked alongside official war artist and mentor Grant Macdonald. After the war, Elliott studied at the Ontario College of Art, graduating in 1948. He had his first exhibition in Saskatoon in1946 and eventually moved to Calgary, where he became Curator of the Allied Art Centre at Coste House.

Pamphlet Files

1. DVD of "Capturing the Likeness" exhibition (opening and all works included) 2. Reproductions of works 3. D. Morrison's "Capturing the Likeness" exhibition notes and research

Repository

West Vancouver Art Museum

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