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Provenance: Kensington Fine Art Gallery, Calgary AB (label verso)
Note: Polish born Bruno Bobak immigrated to Canada with his family in 1925. A very young Bobak began his artistic studies by taking Saturday morning art classes at the Art Gallery of Toronto (1933-37 under Arthur Lismer and Gordon Webber) continuing these studies at Central Technical School (1938-42 under Carl Schaefer and Elizabeth Wyn Wood). In 1942, Bruno Bobak enlisted in the Canadian Army, and in 1944, after submitting a watercolour to an army art exhibition and winning first prize, he was appointed official war artist (becoming the youngest so recognized).
After returning from England and marrying fellow war artist Molly Lamb Bobak, Bruno Bobak spent 10 years teaching at the Vancouver School of Art. In 1960, he accepted an artist-in-residence position at the University of New Brunswick, moving his family to Fredericton for a one-year term, a move that would become permanent after accepting the directorship of the Art Centre. Bobak held this position until his retirement in 1986. During a career that included two hundred and fifty group exhibitions and more than eighty one-man shows, Bobak received many honours including a touring retrospective in 1983, an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Saint Thomas University in 1984, an Honorary Doctor of Literature from the University of New Brunswick in 1986, and the Order of Canada in 1995.
