Roberts, William Goodridge (1904-1974)

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Roberts, William Goodridge (1904-1974)

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        1904-1974

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        William Goodridge Roberts was born in Barbadoes, British West Indies in 1904. He trained at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal from 1923 to 1925 and subsequently enrolled at the Art Students League in New York from 1926 to 1928. Taking courses with American painter and founder of the Ashcan School, John Sloan, (1871-1951) he began a lifelong commitment to modernism. Moving to Ottawa in 1930, Roberts held his first professional solo exhibition, an annual event that would continue until the late 1960s. He then became the first resident artist sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation at Queen's University (1933–36). Afterwards, he moved to Montréal, where he would remain for most of his life and began regular participation in local and national exhibitions, a pattern he would follow throughout his long career. In 1937, his work had its first international showing in London, followed by his frequent appearance in group exhibitions of Canadian art in the United States and Europe. A year later, he joined John Lyman’s short-lived Eastern Group. In 1939, he became a founding member of Lyman’s Contemporary Arts Society. He died in Montréal in 1974.

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            MacDonald, Colin S. A Dictionary of Canadian Artists. 1st ed., Canadian Paperbacks Pub, 1967.

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