John Fox | |
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| Born | John Richard Fox July 26, 1927 Montreal, PQ |
| Died | June 16, 2008 (aged 80) Venice, Italy |
| Education | McGill University (1945-1946), Montreal; MMFA School with Goodridge Roberts (1946-1949), also Montreal; Slade School (1952-1953), London, England |
| Known for | painter, sculptor, collagist, watercolourist and draftsman, educator |
| Spouse(s) | Louise Cass (m. 1951-1975); Sandra Paikowsky (m. 1982) |
| Awards | British Council scholarship to study at the Slade School of Fine Art, University of London (1952-1953); Greenshields Memorial Foundation Grant to study abroad (1955-1957) |
John Richard Fox (July 26, 1927 – June 16, 2008) was a painter, sculptor, collagist, watercolourist and draftsman, as well as an educator who lived in Montreal most of his life. His work beginning in the late 1950s moved easily from representation to abstraction in 1972 and in 1986, back again to representation. He regarded the two different aspects to his work as having the same concerns. He was often praised as a colorist and for his rich surfaces and subtlety of effects, even in his abstract work. As has been recognized increasingly since the 1990s, Fox’s paintings and particularly his abstractions are a valuable part of Canadian modernism.[1]