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David Alexander (Alex) Colville was the second son of David Colville and Florence Gault..
Alex Colville
Canadian artist (1920–2013)
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Alexander Colville (AKA: David Alexander Colville) is a painter, printmaker, muralist and educator who was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
For the 18th-century English vice-admiral, see Alexander Colville, 7th Lord Colville of Culross.
David Alexander Colville, PC CC ONS LL. D. (August 24, 1920 – July 16, 2013) was a Canadian painter and printmaker.
Early life and war artist
David Alexander Colville was born on August 24, 1920 in Toronto, Ontario, the second son of Scottish immigrant David Harrower Colville and his wife Florence Gault.[1][2] He moved with his family at age seven to St.
Catharines, and then to Amherst, Nova Scotia, in 1929. He attended Mount Allison University from 1938 to 1942, where he studied under Canadian Post-Impressionists like Stanley Royle and Sarah Hart, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.[3]
Colville married Rhoda Wright, who he had been friends with since his first year at "Mount A", in 1942 and enlisted in the Canadian Army shortly afterwards.[4]