His paintings have the power to move — and to unsettle — viewers. Alex Colville’s rich art legacy was the subject of a major exhibit at the National Gallery of Canada. The Ottawa exhibit, a collaboration between Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery, opened in April 2015 and ran until September 7, 2015. It featured more than 250 paintings and sketches by Colville, a Second World War artist who went on to become of one Canada’s most celebrated painters. Colville, who painted in the realism style, died in 2013.
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Church and Horse, 1964.
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Horse and Train, 1954.
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Living Room, 1999-2000.
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Target Pistol and Man, 1980.
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Soldier and Girl at Station, 1953.
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To Prince Edward Island, 1965.
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