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Ken Danby (Kenneth Edison Danby) was born on 6 March, 1940 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, is a Canadian painter (1940–2007). Discover Ken Danby'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 67 years old?

Popular As Kenneth Edison Danby
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Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 6 March 1940
Birthday 6 March
Birthplace Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Date of death 23 September, 2007
Died Place Algonquin Park, Ontario
Nationality Canada

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1917

Tom Thomson died on Canoe Lake at the park in July 1917.

1940

Ken Danby, D.F.A. (6 March 1940 – 23 September 2007) was a Canadian painter who created highly realistic paintings that study everyday life.

1958

He enrolled at the Ontario College of Art in 1958.

Early in his career, Danby experimented with abstract expressionism.

1961

In August 1961, Danby participated in the first Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (TOAE) in the parking lot of the Four Seasons hotel, located at that time on Jarvis Street in Toronto.

Danby won the "Best of Exhibition" prize with an untitled abstract, currently in the collection of the artist.

Danby later focused on realism in most of his work, and developed his skill with watercolour.

1964

His first solo exhibition in 1964 sold out.

1965

The subject matter of many of Danby's early works was found on St. Joseph Island and it was there that he met his first wife Judy Harcourt, whom he married in 1965.

Together they purchased a home at Armstrong Mill near Guelph, Ontario, which provided Danby with subject matter from which to gain inspiration.

The couple had three sons, who have appeared in Danby's work.

1968

Canadian writer Blair Frazer also drowned in the park on the Petawawa River's Rollaway Rapids in May 1968.

1972

His 1972 painting At the Crease, portraying a masked hockey goalie defending his net, is widely recognized and reproduced in Canada.

Danby was born and grew up in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

He began drawing and painting in high school.

1975

In 1975, Danby was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

1976

He designed four coins for the 1976 Montreal Olympics.

1980

In the 1980s, Danby painted a number of watercolours about the America's Cup and portrayed Canadian athletes at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Danby has served on the governing board of the Canada Council and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Canada.

They separated in 1980 and divorced in 1984.

One of his sons from this marriage is Noah Danby, an actor.

Danby's second wife's was Gillian Rumble, to whom he was married until his death.

1997

In 1997, Danby received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario.

1999

In 1999 Danby had a studio near Guelph.

2001

In 2001, he was vested in both the Order of Ontario and the Order of Canada.

A school on Grange Road in Guelph, Ontario was named after Danby.

Ken Danby Way in his home town of the Sault Ste.

Marie includes the Public Library and fittingly, the Art Gallery of Algoma.

2006

He was inducted into the Sault's Walk of Fame in 2006.

2007

On 23 September 2007, Danby collapsed while on a canoe trip in Algonquin Park near North Tea Lake with his wife Gillian Danby and friends.

The party summoned help, but paramedics were unable to revive him.

Danby is the second famous Canadian artist to die in Algonquin Park.

2012

He also received the Jessie Dow Prize, the 125th Anniversary Commemorative Medal of Canada, the City of Sault Ste.

Marie's Award of Merit and both the Queen's Silver and Golden Jubilee Medals.

2016

In 2016, the Art Gallery of Hamilton organized a retrospective of Danby's work, entitled Beyond the Crease.

For approximately three decades until his death, Danby lived and painted in a rural property near Guelph, Ontario, and spent years restoring the historic Armstrong Mill; some of his art work features the property.

From November 2016 to January 2017, the Guelph Civic Museum exhibited examples of Danby's work including his Wayne Gretzky portrait, The Great Farewell.