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Goodridge Roberts (William Goodridge Roberts) was born on 1904 in Bridgetown, Barbados, is a Canadian artist (1904-1974). Discover Goodridge Roberts's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Age 70 years old
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Born 1904
Birthday 1904
Birthplace Bridgetown, Barbados
Date of death 1974
Died Place Montreal, Quebec
Nationality Barbados

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1904

William Goodridge Roberts (1904–1974) was a Canadian painter known for his landscape paintings, still lifes, figure paintings and interiors.

He was also a teacher.

Goodridge Roberts was the son of poet and novelist George Edward Theodore Goodridge Roberts and Frances Seymour Allen.

Roberts was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, in 1904 while his parents were on holiday from their New Brunswick home.

1926

Roberts studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal and at the Art Students League of New York with John Sloan, Boardman Robinson and Max Weber (1926–1928).

1930

He moved to Ottawa in 1930, where he exhibited his work, and opened a summer school for painting in nearby Wakefield, in the Gatineau Valley.

1932

In 1932, Roberts held his first solo exhibition at Montreal's Arts Club, where he came to the attention of John Lyman.

1933

From 1933 to 1936 he was the resident artist at Queen's University, afterwards moving to Montreal.

1938

In 1938, Roberts, joined the Eastern Group of Painters as a charter member, and in 1939, again as a charter member, joined the Contemporary Arts Society, as well as exhibiting at the New York World's Fair.

1940

He taught at the Art Association of Montreal from 1940 to 1952.

1943

During the period from 1943 to 1945 he was an Official Second World War artist for the Royal Canadian Air Force, stationed in England.

1952

In 1952, works by Roberts along with those of Emily Carr, David Milne and Alfred Pellan represented Canada at the Venice Biennale.

1953

A scholarship was awarded (in 1953) by the Canadian government to allow Roberts to study painting in France.

1956

He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1956).

He was also a member of the Canadian Group of Painters.

1959

Then in 1959 he won the Glaxebrook award at the National Gallery of Canada for a landscape painting.

This year (1959) until 1960 Roberts was the first resident artist at the University of New Brunswick.

1963

Among the people who praised Roberts` work was the well-known American art critic, Clement Greenberg, who, in 1963, said that his work had been the portal through which he became interested in Canadian art.

1964

In 1964, he won the A. J. Casson Award, the annual "Open Water" competition organized by the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (CSPWC).

1969

In 1969, he was a recipient of the Order of Canada and was given a traveling retrospective exhibition by the National Gallery of Canada, an unusual honour for a living artist at the time.

1998

Following his death after a lengthy illness, his work was the subject of several museum solo exhibitions with publications, including a touring retrospective in 1998 titled Goodridge Roberts Revealed, curated by Sandra Paikowski.