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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