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Short
Description:
Frederick
Varley continues to be a popular Canadian Artist. His 1940
work "Ottawa River" sold for $115,500 at Auction
in 1999.
Biography:
Frederick Varley was born in 1881 in Sheffield, England. He
studied painting at Sheffield and Antwerp and went to work
in London as a commercial illustrator.
In
1912 he came to Canada, where he found himself working in
the same commercial studio as Tom Thomson. With Thomson and
the others he took to painting Northern Ontario landscapes,
and also began to do considerable work as a portrait painter.
In 1926 Varley moved to Vancouver to become Head of Drawing,
Painting & Composition at the newly formed Vancouver School
of Decorative & Applied Arts. In 1933 he founded his own school,
the AB College of Arts, but this venture led to his bankruptcy
in 1935. In 1938 his marriage also collapsed.
The
next years were difficult for Varley, most of them spent suffering
from alcoholism in Montreal. In 1945, however, he returned
to Toronto and slowly began to work again. He died in Toronto
in 1969.
Frederick
Varley Gallery
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