Biography of RICHARD WALTER MAJOR

MAJOR, Richard Walter  FCA (1899-1984). Born in Toronto, Ontario, Major studied under Alfred Howell at the Toronto Technical School; night classes with C.M. Manly and J.W. Beatty at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto; and under L.F. Grant and Thomas Benrimo in New York City. Working in oil, pastel and watercolour, his subjects include portraits, figure studies, landscape, still life and scenes of Old Toronto (1924-1933). He also illustrated stories for magazines such as Macleans, Chatelaine, Canadian Home Journal, and for school textbooks published by Dent and Macmillan. He worked at Grip Limited, Toronto in 1914, taught at the Vancouver School of Art from 1944, moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1953, then to Vancouver in 1966. He exhibited with the RCA in 1932, 1937, 1939 and 1940, and with the AAM in 1934-1941. His work is in the collections of the AGO, and Toronto City Archives.

 

Biography courtesy of The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction: Volume III: M-R

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