"The Market Place" by David Gerry Partridge Canadian/American. b. 1919

Awesome mid-century impressionist painting. Signed and dated 1955 verso. Painting was acquired in Montreal. 18" x 24" oil on masonite.  It is available for purchase here
 

David Gerry Partridge C.M., B.A., D.S.Litt.
Born, Oct. 5,1919; Akron, Ohio,U.S.A.
Lived:
1919-28 America
1928-35 England
1936-56 Canada
1941-45 Served as a Flying Instructor, R.C.A.F; F/Lt.
1944 Naturalized Canadian.
1945-46 Oakville, Ont.
1946-50 St.Catharines, Ont.
1950-51 London, Eng.
1951-56 St.Catharines, Ont.
1956-58 Sussex, Eng.
1958-62 Ottawa, Ont.
1962-74 London, Eng.
1974-onwards, Toronto, Canada

Education:

1930-33 Mostyn House School, Parkgate, Cheshire
1933-34 Radley College, Oxfordshire
1935-38 Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ont
1938-41 Trinity College, University of Toronto, Degree - B.A. (English, History, Geology and Paleontology)and later D. Litt. 2001 (honourary Doctorate, Sacred Letters)

Art Studies:

U of T-Hart House-drawing with Carl Schaefer, much drawing of fossils etc., in Geol./Paleo. Courses
Summer-school, Queen's University 1946, 1947 and 1949, Andre Bieler, Carl Schaefer and Will Ogilvie
Summer 1948 Art Students League, N.Y.C. Harry Sternberg, Life-drawing, Lithography
1950-51. The Slade School, University of London. British Council Scholarship. Tom Monnington, Edward Ardizzone, drawing. John Buckland-Wright - a wonderful introduction into etching and engraving. Robert Medley, stage and costume design. Contact with stimulating "Visitors" Graham Sutherland and John Piper and other Slade professors: William Coldstream, Claude Rogers and William Townsend
Spring 1958. Atelier 17, Paris. With William Hayter, etching and engraving.
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