Kenneth Lochhead

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Kenneth Campbell Lochhead, {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|RCA|size=100%}} L.L. D. (May 22, 1926 – July 15, 2006) was a professor and painter. He was the brother of poet Douglas Lochhead.

Career

Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Lochhead attended the Summer Art School at Queen's University in 1944. From 1945 to 1948, he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. From 1946 to 1948, he studied at the Barnes Foundation near Philadelphia.

From 1950 to 1964, he was the director of the School of Art at the University of Saskatchewan – Regina Campus. Among his pupils there was Joan Rankin.{{cite book|author1=Jules Heller|author2=Nancy G. Heller|title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|date=19 December 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-63882-5}} His art work in this early period was Surrealist as well as abstract (he bounced between the two). He was commissioned to do two murals in his surrealist mode, one for the airport in Gander, Newfoundland, one for the Royal Canadian Legion branch in Regina (1955–1956), a "major artistic achievement".{{cite book |last1=Norbraten |first1=Erik |title="The Royal Canadian Legion". Regina's Secret Spaces:Love and Lore of Local Geography |date=2006 |publisher=U of Regina Press |location=Regina |isbn=978-0-88977-200-7|url=https://uofrpress.ca/Books/R/Regina-s-Secret-Spaces |access-date=11 April 2024}}

Lochhead was the co-founder with McKay of the Emma Lake Artist's Workshops in 1955 and attended the 1959 visit of Barnett Newman, followed by a reappraisal of his art. In 1961, he exhibited his abstract paintings as part of the Regina Five at the National Gallery of Canada with Art McKay, Ron Bloore, Ted Godwin, and Douglas Morton. Along with McKay, he was included in Clement Greenberg's 1964 Post-Painterly Abstraction exhibition. By 1968, Lochhead was painting abstract work that let the painting "breathe" by leaving margins of unpainted canvas between the colours.{{cite web |last1=Young |first1=H. Dennis |title=49th Parallels: New Canadian Art, catalogue essay, 1971 |url=http://www.dennis-young.ca/FortyNinth.html |website=www.dennis-young.ca |publisher=Dennis Young |access-date=30 May 2024}}

From 1964 to 1973, he was an associate professor in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba. From 1973 to 1975, he was a professor in the Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts at York University. From 1975 to 1989, he was a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa.

In 1970, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contribution to the development of painting, especially in Western Canada, as an artist and teacher".[http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=1023 Order of Canada Website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311134027/http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=1023 |date=2007-03-11 }} Retrieved August 2, 2006 In 2006, he was awarded the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts{{cite web|title=Members since 1880 |url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |accessdate=11 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526215339/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |archivedate=26 May 2011 }}

In 2005, Ted Fraser curated the exhibition titled Kenneth Lochhead: Garden of Light for the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina.{{cite web |title=Contributors |url=https://e-artexte.ca/view/contributors/Fraser=3ATed=3A=3A.html|publisher=e-artexte |access-date=24 April 2023}} Lochhead died of colorectal cancer in Ottawa in 2006.

Books illustrated

Looking into Trees (Sackville NB: Sybertooth, 2009) {{ISBN|978-0-9810244-3-1}}

Honours and memberships

Officer of the Order of Canada;
Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Regina with the other members of the Regina Five (2001);{{cite web |title=Recipients |url=https://www.uregina.ca/president/assets/docs/honorary-degree/zhdr-recipients-chrono.pdf |website=www.uregina.ca |publisher=U Regina |access-date=13 January 2024}}

References

External links

{{cite encyclopedia |last=Zepp |first=Norman |title=Kenneth Campbell Lochhead |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |date=4 March 2015 |publisher=Historica Canada |edition=online |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/kenneth-campbell-lochhead}}
[http://www.kennethlochhead.com Kenneth Lochhead's official website]
University of Regina Archives and Special Collections. Ken Lochhead Fonds. https://www.uregina.ca/library/services/archives/collections/art-architecture/lockhhead.html{{Dead link|date=May 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Category:1926 births

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Category:Deaths from colorectal cancer in Canada

Category:20th-century Canadian painters

Category:Canadian male painters

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Category:Officers of the Order of Canada

Category:Artists from Ottawa

Category:Painters from Ontario

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Category:Academic staff of the University of Ottawa

Category:Academic staff of the University of Saskatchewan