Alfred Joseph Casson

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Alfred Joseph Casson

Alfred Joseph Casson

1898 - 1992

Casson studied art in Hamilton and Toronto. In 1919, he got his first real job at a Toronto commercial art firm as Franklin Carmichael's apprentice. Carmichael had the greatest influence on Casson as an artist, taking him sketching and camping, and introducing him to members of the Group of Seven, including Lawren Harris and J.E.H. MacDonald. Along with Carmichael and F.H. Brigden, Casson revived and championed the watercolour medium.

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Robert Genn

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Robert Genn

Born in Victoria, BC, Robert Genn was formally trained at the University of Victoria, the University of BC and the Art Centre School in Los Angeles, California. Throughout his career Genn garnered an international reputation for his ability to capture the colour and form of the Canadian landscape with strong brush strokes.  He is most well known for painting west coast and rocky mountain scenes. 

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Ted Godwin

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Ted Godwin

Edward W. (Ted) Godwin, OC was a Canadian artist who was part of the Regina Five, a group of five artists (Ken Lochhead, Art McKay, Ron Bloore and Douglas Morton) all based in Regina, Saskatchewan. He is also known for his large tartan paintings.

Born in Calgary, Alberta, he attended the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and Art from 1951 to 1955.

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E. J. Hughes

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E. J. Hughes

1913 - 2007

E.J. Hughes’s paintings are best known for their strong and appealing images of the landscape and seascape of British Columbia.  His distinctive style is marked by the use of flattened space, skewed perspective and simplified shapes.  He is a regional painter, whose art relates directly to the unique and powerful geography of the Canadian west coast. 

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