Biography of LIONEL LEMOINE FITZGERALD

FITZGERALD, Lionel LeMoine  CGP, MSA  (1890-1956).  Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Fitzgerald attended night school art classes in the city (1909-12). He then studied with Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students' League, New York City (1921-22). He began working as a commercial artist and interior decorator (1912-24) but later secured a teaching position with the Winnipeg School of Art (1924-49). He associated with the Group of Seven (1932-33), and the Canadian Group of Painters (1933). Fitzgerald's early works were influenced by the French Impressionists, especially Georges Seurat, but dealt with Canadian subject matter. He worked in oil, watercolour, ink, pencil, charcoal, wood engraving, linocut and drypoint, and painted portraits, nudes, still life, animal sketches, landscapes, trees, clouds, city and street scenes. His style ranged from a realistic pointillism to abstraction. He traveled to Chicago (1910), other parts of the United States and central Canada (1930, 1938); Vancouver and Bowen Island (1942-44, 1947-49); and Mexico (1951-52). His work is in the collections of the NGC, WAG, AGO and MMFA. He exhibited with the RCA from 1912-1925.

 

Biography courtesy of the Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction: Volume I: A-F

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