Peter Clapham (P.C.) Sheppard (1882 - 1965) Canada

Peter Clapham (P.C.) Sheppard (1882 - 1965) Canada
Oil on Cardboard
Measure 10"in H x 15"in W and 13 3/4"in H x 18 3/4"in W with frame

Known for: Portraits, still life, landscape, marine, and genre painting
Biography: Peter Clapham Sheppard occupies a place among a notable generation of artists that pioneered and firmly established a distinctively Canadian school of art. In the years preceding the Great War and in the decade to follow, these Toronto-based artists broke away from the academic, the often dull and sentimental images of the French and Dutch aesthetic, to focus their attentions on the beauty and bounty of the Canadian landscape - specifically, the waters, forests, and skies of Ontario's hinterland. They painted these elements, timelessly transforming under the changing visages of the seasons, in a new and vibrant modernist idiom. Born in Toronto on October 21, 1882, Sheppard received his art training at the Central Ontario School of Art and Design and the Ontario College of Art under George Reid, John William Beatty, and William Cruickshank, accomplished artists and influential teachers. There in 1912-13 he won the Sir Edmund Walker Scholarship and later the Stone Scholarship (Life Classes) in 1913-14, as well as nine Honours diplomas for painting, drawing, and composition. Quiet by nature, humble in spirit, P.C. Sheppard worked prolifically, producing sketches and large canvases that extol his talents as a draughtsman and colourist. His versatility is evidenced in the many formidable examples of figural works, portraits, still life, landscapes, city and harbour scenes, circuses, country fairs, markets, and horse-cab stands. He taught at the Ontario College of Art summer school as well as at his studio in Toronto. A very fine teacher, he gave help and encouragement to many. Toward the end of his life, the meek and solitary Sheppard found comfort and companionship in the admiring and devoted friendship of painter-printmaker Bernice Fenwick Martin. It was she and her husband Langton who saw to the age'd artist's care in the final years, arranging for his residence at the Salvation Army's Isabel and Arthur Meighen Lodge for the Elderly on Millwood Avenue in Toronto, directly across the street from their home. Peter Clapham Sheppard died there on April 24, 1965.

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