Alex Colville
| David Alexander Colville | |
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Alex Colville in 1945
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| Born |
David Alexander Colville 24 August 1920 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | 16 July 2013 (aged 92) Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | Mount Allison University |
| Known for | Painting |
| Spouse(s) | Rhoda Wright (m 1942-2012) |
David Alexander Colville, PC CC ONS (24 August 1920 – 16 July 2013) was a Canadian painter.
Born in 1920 in Toronto, Ontario, Colville moved with his family at age seven to St. Catharines, and then to Amherst, Nova Scotia in 1929. He attended Mount Allison University from 1938 to 1942, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
He married Rhoda Wright in 1942 and enlisted in the Canadian Army in the infantry, eventually earning the rank of lieutenant. He painted in Yorkshire and took part in the Royal Canadian Navy's landings in southern France. He was then attached to the 3rd Canadian Division. In the army for two years, and because he was a fine-arts student, he was made a war artist in May 1944. His unit relieved the 82nd Airborne Division at Nijmegen, Netherlands in mid-September 1944 during Operation Market Garden and remained there until the following February. He continued on to tours in the Netherlands and Germany, where he was also tasked with depicting the horrors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Colville returned to New Brunswick after the war and became a faculty member with the Fine Arts Department at Mount Allison University where he taught from 1946 to 1963. He left teaching to devote himself to painting and print-making full-time from a studio in his home on York Street; this building is now named Colville House.
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