George Pepper (artist)

George Douglas Pepper RCA (February 25, 1903 – October 1, 1962) was a Canadian artist.[1]

Captain George Douglas Pepper, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, war artist, Cleve, Germany, March 9, 1945.

Born in Ottawa, he studied with J.E.H. MacDonald and J. W. Beatty in Toronto, going on to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. He was strongly influenced by the Group of Seven. Pepper was an official war artist during World War II.[2] He married artist Kathleen Daly in 1929.[3] The couple visited the eastern Arctic in 1960 to study Inuit art. Pepper taught at the Ontario College of Art and the Banff School of Fine Arts. He was a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters in 1933. In 1957, he was named to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.[2] In 1954 he was one of eighteen Canadian artists commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway to paint a mural for the interior of one of the new Park cars entering service on the new Canadian transcontinental train. Each the murals depicted a different national or provincial park; Pepper's was Kootenay National Park.[4]

Pepper died in Toronto at the age of 59.[1]

His work appears in the collections of the Canadian War Museum,[5] the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the South African National Gallery[6] and the Musée d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul.[3]

Signature

He signed his works: G Pepper

See also

• Kathleen Frances Daly

References

1. Peters, Erik J. "George Douglas Pepper". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
2. "George Pepper Totem Poles at Kitwanga, 1929" (PDF). Vancouver Art Gallery.
3. "Daly, Kathleen". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Concordia University.
4. "The 50th Anniversary of the CPR Stainless Steel Passenger Fleet" (PDF). Canadian Rail (503): 211–223. November–December 2004.
5. Morse, Jennifer (January 1, 2002). "George Pepper". Canadian Legion Magazine.
6. "George Pepper". Temiskaming Art Gallery.