Biography of FREDERICK STANLEY HAINES

HAINES, Frederick Stanley  RCA, CPE, CSPWC, OSA, SGA  (1879-1960).  Born in Meaford, Ontario, Haines studied at the Central Ontario School of Art, Toronto under George Agnew Reid and William Cruikshank (1896); and at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Antwerp, Belgium under Juliaan de Vriendt (1913). Working mostly in oil, although he also used pencil, sepia, gouache, tempera and watercolour, he painted the Ontario landscape especially farm scenes with animals and trees. He also painted the mountains of British Columbia, the Eastern Townships of Quebec, and in Vermont. In 1919 he began working with prints including woodblocks, colour aquatints, etchings and lithographs. He signed his work with a monogram. Haines worked as a curator at the AGO (1927-32) and was Principal at the OCA (1932-51). He was President of the OSA (1924-25) and RCA (1939-42). The father of Dorothy Hoover, he died in Thornhill, Ontario. He exhibited extensively with the RCA between 1905-1960, the AAM in 1908, 1927 and 1940, and had a memorial exhibit at the AGO in 1961. His work is in the collections of the AGO, LAG and NGC.

 

Biography courtesy of The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction: Volume II: G-L

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