David Alexander Colville, PC, CC, ONS (born August 24, 1920 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian painter.
Colville's family moved from Toronto to Amherst, Nova Scotia in 1929. He attended Mount Allison University from 1938 - 1942, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Colville married Rhoda Wright that year and enlisted in the Canadian Army under the War Artist Program. During his four-year deployment to the European Theatre, he worked as one of Canada's most famous war artists, famously painting troops landing at Juno Beach on D-Day.
Colville returned to Nova Scotia after the war and became a faculty member with the Fine Arts Department at Mount Allison University where he taught from 1946 - 1963. Colville left teaching to devote himself to painting and print-making full-time from a studio on the Mount Allison University campus in a historic home on Bridge Street; this building is now a small student residence named Colville House.
In 1973, he moved his family to his wife's hometown of Wolfville, Nova Scotia where they live in the house that her father had built and in which she was born. The Colvilles have three sons and a daughter along with eight grandchildren.
Colville has exhibited extensively across Canada and internationally including the Tate Gallery in London and the Beijing Exhibition Centre in Beijing. In 1983 an international touring retrospective of his work was organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Alex Colville's work is found in many collections including the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia[1], Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée National D'Art Moderne in Paris, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne and Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover, Germany.
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