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Gregory Arnold

1916 - 1968)
Born in Meota, Saskatchewan, Greg completed secondary education at the Saskatoon Technical Collegiate Institute. This was followed by five years in the Canadian Army as a Radar Instructor. In 1946 he attended the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (together with Roy Kiyooka, Ron Spickett, Art McKay and George Mihalcheon). He studied under MacDonald, Buck Kerr, Luke Lindoe, Stan Blodgett, Stan Perrott and Marmie Hess. He completed independent study in England, and Florence, Italy. Archie Key and Maxwell Bates and Greg were involved in organizing an exhibit at the Coste House, Calgary with Mihalcheon, Spickett, Roy Kiyooka and Greg Arnold. This exhibition later travelled to Hart House, Toronto. He took park in the First Biennial of Canadian Painting in Ottawa in 1955. After his visit to Expo, in 1967, he was excited in the principles employed by the designers of this memorable exposition. The immense geodesic dome could now be viewed in detail, cubes, triangulations and geometrics etc. and these were theories and principles that Arnold understood and had been using in his constructions and paintings for some ten years already.

Although primarily a painter, Greg worked with cloth, leather, copper, wood and clay. Greg was an instructor at A.C.A. from 1962 to 1968 and President of A.S.A. 1962/63. He has numerous works in the Calgary Civic Collection, where he is described as "Designer, craftsman and innovative artist". Quote from Triangle Gallery catalogue, 1989 - "Arnold was an observer, a visual punster" - aware of trends in commercial art that helped set the pace of the Canadian scene.

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