Frederick Henry (Fred) Brigden
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| Born | Frederick Henry Brigden April 9, 1871 London,England |
| Died | 1956(aged 84–85) |
| Known for | Landscape painter, illustrator, commercial engraver |
Frederick Henry (Fred) BrigdenRCA(April09, 1871 – 1956), also known asF. H. Brigden,was a landscape painter in oils and watercolour, illustrator, and commercial engraver.
Career
[edit]Born inLondon,England, Brigden came to Canada with his parents in 1872 and with them, settled in Toronto.[1]In 1877, his father Frederick Brigden Senior founded the Toronto Engraving Company with Henry Beale.[2]
In 1898, Fred Brigden became the art director of the Toronto Engraving Company which in 1910 changed its name to Brigdens Limited.[2]In 1914, he opened a branch of Brigden's in Winnipeg and gave employment to such artists asCharles Comfortand many others such asCaven Atkins,Fritz Brandtner,andNicholas Raphael de Grandmaison.[2][3]
Work
[edit]Since he was talented in art, F. H. Brigden attended the Toronto Art Student’s League as a youth, studying withWilliam CruikshankandGeorge Agnew Reid.He also attended meetings of the Mahlstick Club which includedJ. E. H. MacDonaldamong other artists.
Brigden painted in a traditional English watercolour style until about 1906 when he made his first trip to the north country of Canada when his work became brightened and became more decisive.[1]He visited galleries in London, Manchester and Brussels in 1910, and during the summer, Brigden studied withJohn F. CarlsoninWoodstock, New York.[1][4]In 1912 he visited the Albright Art Gallery, today'sAlbright-Knox Gallery,inBuffalo,New York, where he saw theExhibition of Contemporary Scandinavian Artand post-Impressionist and expressionist landscape paintings.[5]It was the same exhibition whichJ. E. H. MacDonaldandLawren Harrissaw and were inspired by in 1913.[1]Bridgen, however, remained more of a traditionalist and retained his long-term interest in the English watercolourists. In 1924 on a business trip to England he examined with interest a portfolio of original watercolours ofJohn Sell Cotman.[1]In 1925, he was one of the founders[6]and the first elected President of theCanadian Society of Painters in Water Colour(CSPWC/SCPA).[7]
Brigden joined theOntario Society of Artistsin 1898 and theRoyal Canadian Academy of Artsin 1939 and is represented in the collections of theNational Gallery of Canada[8]and theArt Gallery of Ontario.[4]He died on a sketching trip at Bolton, Ontario in 1956.[1]
Further reading
[edit]- Middleton, J. E. (1945).Canadian landscape: as pictured by F.H. Brigden / Biographical notes by J.E. Middleton.Toronto: The Ryerson Press.Retrieved28 November2022.
- Davis, Angela E. (1986).Business, art and labour: Brigden's and the growth of the Canadian graphic arts industry 1870-1950.Winnipeg: A. E. Davis.Retrieved7 December2022.
- Hughes, Mary Jo (2001).Brigdens of Winnipeg.Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery.Retrieved24 June2023.
- Valmestad, Liv."Article"./libguides.lib.umanitoba.U Manitoba.Retrieved1 January2024.
References
[edit]- ^abcdefA Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
- ^abcDavis, Angela E."Frederick Brigden [Senior]".www.biographi.ca.Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 14, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–.Retrieved28 November2022.
- ^Hughes 2001,p. n.p..
- ^abBradfield, Helen Pepall (1970).Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection.Toronto: McGraw-Hill.ISBN0-07-092504-6.OCLC118037.
- ^"Exhibition of Scandinavian Contemporary Art".newyorkpubliclibrary.com.Retrieved28 November2022.
- ^"The Great Adventure [One hundred years at the Arts & Letters Club]". Page 136. Margaret McBurney.ISBN978-0-9694588-2-1
- ^"Aquarelle!, A history of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour 1925-1985", Rebecca Sisler RCA, Porcupine Quill 1986
- ^"Collection".www.gallery.ca.National Gallery of Canada.Retrieved28 November2022.
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