biografia di Phillip Henry Howard SURREY (1910-1990)

Birth place: Calgary

Addresses: Montreal 217, PQ

Profession: Painter

Studied: Winnipeg School Art, with Lemoine Fitzgerald; Vancouver School Art, with Frederick Varley & Jock Mcdonald; ASL with Alexander Abels.

Exhibited: Hamilton Art Gal. Winter Exhibs., 1958-71; 25 Quebec Painters, Montreal Mus. Fine Arts, 1961; Master Can. Painters & Sculptors, London, 1963; solo retrospective, Peintre dans la Ville, Mus. Art Contemporain, Montreal 1971 & Center Cult. Canada, Paris, 1972; Galeries Gilles Corbeil, Montreal, PQ, 1970s. Awards: first prize, Montreal Spring Show, 1953; second prize, Winnipeg Show, 1960.

Work: Nat. Gallery Canada, Ottawa; Art Gallery Ontario, Toronto; Montreal MFA; Mus. Quebec, Quebec City; Art Gallery Hamilton, Ontario.

Comments: Preferred media: acrylics, oils, watercolors, pastels. Teaching: drawing instructor, Sir George Williams Univ.

Sources: WW73; J. De Roussan (author), Le Peintre des Reflets de la Ville," Vie Arts, 1963 & "Philip Surrey," Ed. Lidec, Montreal, 1968; Robert Ayre (author), "The City and the Dream," Canadian Art, 1964."