Crocket House by Bruno Bobak

$150.00

Bruno Bobak RCA, CPE, CSGA, CSPWC (1923 – 2012), etching, 6/ 100, "The Crocket House", 6" x 6.5”, signed lower right (Framed). Condition note: water damage lower left. Bruno Bobak, CM RCA LL.D., D.Litt (born Bronislaw Jacob Bobak; 27 December 1923 – 24 September 2012) was a Polish-born Canadian war painter and art teacher. His main medium was watercolour Paintingbut he also produced woodcuts. Born in Wawelówka, Vavylivka in Ukraine, then near Skalat, now a part of Skalat, Ukraine, then in Poland, Bobak's family left in 1925 and eventually settled in Saskatchewan, Canada in 1925. He studied art with Arthur Lismer and Gordon Webber at the Art Gallery of Toronto (1933-1937), and with Carl Schaefer and Elizabeth Wyn Wood at the Central Technical School, Toronto (1938-1942). Bobak joined the Canadian Army in 1942, following high school. He won first prize in Canadian Army Art Competition and was named as an Official War Artist. He served in Europe as Canada's youngest war artist in World War II. After the war Bobak returned to Canada and lived briefly in Ottawa before moving with his wife (whom he met in London) to Vancouver in 1947 to teach art at the Vancouver School of Art. The Bobaks moved one final time to New Brunswick in 1960 and he was appointed Director of the University of New Brunswick's Art Centre. In 1983, the Sir George Williams Art Galleries, Concordia University, Montreal organized a touring retrospective of his work. Retired in 1986, Bobak remained in New Brunswick until his death. In 1995, along with his wife, fellow war artist Molly Bobak, he became a Member of the Order of Canada. Bruno Bobak died 24 September 2012, at age 88. Bobak's work is primarily found in Canada, but can be found also in the United States, Poland and Britain.

Provenance: Not specified
Artist / Author: Bruno Bobak
Date of Work: Not specified
Signature location: Bottom Right
Origin of Work: Atlantic Canada
Subject: Landscape
Original Vendor/Source: Citadel
Details of damage: water stain
Frame Style/Material: Glass/Composite
Frame dimensions: 12.000 x 12.000 x .750
Inner frame dimensions: 10.687 x 10.687
Artwork dimensions: 6.000 x 6.500