Artist, Sculptor. Disciplines: Bronze, wood, stone in busts, relief, art medallions, monumental, liturgical, and architectural. Born: 1913, Hamilton, Ontario. Canada. Education: Hamilton Art School under Hortense Gordon, and John Sloan (1928-1931), Ontario College of Art,Ê(under Emanuel Hahn, RCA and JW Beatty (1932-1935), Royal College of Art, England under Richard Garbe (1936), Cranbrook Academy of Arts, USA under Carl Milles, (1941-1948). Exhibited: National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Portrait Academy, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Sculptor's Society of Canada, Ontario Society of Artists, McMaster Museum of Art, Art Gallery of Windsor among numerous others. Selected Noted Subjects: HM Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Winston Churchill, President Theodore Roosevelt, Sir Fredrick Banting, Sir Henry Moore, Dr. James Robinson, George Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, Hon. Ellen Fairclough, Sir William Osler, Dr. Albert Sweitzer, Hon. Conrad Black among numerous others. Collections: National Gallery of Canada, HM Queen Elizabeth II, Art Gallery of Ontario, National Portrait Gallery, USA, Canadian Portrait Academy, McMaster Museum of Art, Rideau Hall, Arts and Letters Club, Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts among numerous othersÊAwards: Ontario College of Art Governor General's Medal (1935), National Sculptor's Society New York Gold Medal for Portraiture (1969), City of Hamilton Woman of the Year in the Arts (1987), Hamilton Hall of Distinction (1994), Fellow Ontario College of Art (1996), Order of Canada (1997), Order of Ontario (1997), Canadian Portrait Academy Cleeve Horne Award for Best Portrait Sculpture (1998). Other: Founding Member of the Canadian Portrait Academy (1994), Founding Member of the Canadian Group of Art Medallists (2000), mentor of Canadian artist Christian Cardell Corbet, PPCPA, CGAM, FRSA (1966-).