Biography of JACK WELDON HUMPHREY

HUMPHREY, Jack Weldon CAS, CGP, CSGA, CSPWC, EGP  (1901-1967). Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Humphrey studied at Mount Allison University; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School under Philip Hale (1920-1923); the National Academy of Design, New York City (1924-1929); summers at the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts under Charles Hawthorne; at l’École Grande Chaumière, Paris (1930); and in Munich under Hans Hofmann (1930). While he travelled and painted in Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Vancouver (1933), Mexico (1938) and France (1952-54), he spent his working life in Saint John. Working mainly in oil, but also in watercolour, charcoal, chalk, pastel, tempera, pencil, ink and gouache, his subjects include representational landscapes, streetscapes, harbour scenes, portraits, figures and still life. His figurative work was strongly influenced by an interest in the volumes and solids of Cezanne, the abstraction of Mondrian and Social Realism (1940s). After 1952 he painted in an Abstract Expressionist style. Many of his canvases are painted on both sides. Humphrey was a founding member of the Eastern Group of Painters. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of New Brunswick in 1951, and won Canada Council awards in 1958 and 1960. He exhibited at the MMFA 1931, 1942-1948, the RCA in 1950 and had solo exhibitions at the VAG in 1945, MMFA in 1955, NGC in 1966 and the AGO in 1979. His work is represented in the AGGV, AGO, BAGF, CWM, EAG, GM, MCMC, MAC, NAC, NGC, VAG and WAG.

 

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

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