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Le Rouge et Le Noir
A-81-4
Roy Austin (British Canadian, 1910–1997) 
 
Agawa Canyon and River, 1979
Oil, lucite on Board
61.3 x 76.5 cm 
Collection of the Art Gallery of Algoma; 
Gift of Mr. Leo Thibodeau
Roy Austin (1910-1997 | British Canadian)
Austin was born in Faversham, England and emigrated to Canada a year later. His family settled in Orangeville, Ontario. During this time, Austin developed a keen appreciation for Ontario’s rural countryside. At the age of 20, Austin enrolled at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and studied painting and design under JW Beatty, JEH Macdonald, Frank Carmichael and Yvonne McKague Housser. After graduating he apprenticed as a commercial artist all the while refining his painting skills and participating in annual exhibitions of the Ontario Society of Artists and the Royal Canadian Academy.
Austin is perhaps best known for his landscapes in watercolours and oils, capturing small town Ontario’s villages and countryside. As in the painting, “Agawa Canyon and River” which is part of the Art Gallery of Algoma’s permanent collection, Austin’s trademark style of expressive brush stokes, bright colours in simplified shapes, pull the viewer in.

Inspired Community Submissions

Joanne Zeppa
Inspiration, Needle Felting & Acrylic on Canvas
Serge Dugas 
Inspired to paint​, Oil​

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