Robert Wakeham Pilot
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Robert Wakeham Pilot MBE, RCA |
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| Born |
9 October 1898 St. John's, Newfoundland |
| Died | 17 December 1967 (aged 69) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Residence | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | Newfoundlander (until confederation), Canadian |
| Alma mater | Académie Julian |
| Occupation | Painter |
Robert Wakeham Pilot MBE, RCA (1898–1967) was a Canadian artist, who worked mainly in oil on canvas or on panel, and as an etcher and muralist.
Pilot was born on 9 October 1898, at St. John's, Newfoundland, to Edward Frederick Pilot and his wife Barbara (née Merchant). In 1910, his widowed mother married the artist, Maurice Cullen, moving into Cullen's home in Montreal. As a child, Pilot assisted Cullen in his studio, and the two would take sketching trips together. He later studied in Montreal under William Brymner, then, in March 1916, joined the army. He served as a gunner on trench mortars in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Fifth Division Artillery, during World War I. From 1920 to 1922, he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1922, he exhibited at the Paris Salon. His work took on Impressionist influences after he visited the artists' colony at Concarneau.
On returning to Canada, he was elected as an associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1925, serving as the Adcademy's president from 1952 to 1954.
His first solo show was in 1927, at the Watson Art Galleries. He won the Jessie Dow Prize in that year and in 1934.
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