In Memoriam: Tom Forrestall
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This exhibition features a selection of Tom Forrestall’s (Mount Allison Class of ’58) works, all drawn from the Owens Collection.
Thomas DeVany Forrestall, C.M., O.N.S., B.F.A. LL.D., RCA is one of Canada’s leading realist artists. He was born in Middleton Nova Scotia, in In , he was awarded a scholarship to the Fine Arts Department at Mount Allison University, where he studied with Lawren P. Harris, Ted Pulford, and Alex Colville. Graduating in , he received one of the first Canada Council grants for independent study, which provided him with the opportunity to travel throughout Europe. Upon his return to Canada, he moved to New Brunswick with his family, where he became Assistant Curator of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Forrestall worked as a full-time artist since , has been exhibited internationally, and his work is held in major public collections in Canada.
Image: Tom Forrestall, The Rock Pile, , egg tempera on board. Gift of Lillian Schelew. Collection of the Owens Art Gallery.
Thomas DeVany Forrestall (– ) was born in Middleton, Nova Scotia. He studied at the Fine Arts department at Mount Allison University under Lawren P. Harris and Alex Colville between and Receiving one of the first Canada Council grants for independent study, Forrestall travelled throughout Europe, returning to take the post of assistant curator at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Forrestall is often associated with the regional “Atlantic Realism” style, a loose agglomeration that includes his teacher Alex Colville and his friends Christopher and Mary Pratt. As with Colville and the Pratts, Forrestall’s work is broadly categorized as “Magic Realism”, with a naturalistic style informed by his immediate surroundings and incorporating symbolic iconography and surreal motifs. He is notable for his use of watercolour, egg tempera, and to a lesser extent, acrylic; often rendered on irregularly shaped supports. Forrestall is often compared with contemporaneous American Realists such as Andrew Wyeth () and Edward Hopper (). Often building tonalities through fine cross-hatching, like Colville, Forrestall’s paintings shimmer with luminous colour but are distinct f
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From the early s one of the most prominent of Halifax-based artists has been painter Tom Forrestall, a pillar of Atlantic Realism and a student of Alex Colville (–). Forrestall won critical and wide public recognition in the s as part of renewed interest in realist painting. His work was shown across Canada, as well as in New York and in Europe, where he had several touring exhibitions. In the mids Forrestall began to paint images on a variety of forms such as circles, polygons, and triangles. These shaped paintings reflected his assertion that the rectangle is just one shape among many. A parallel approach was to use multiple images in the shaped forms, creating diptychs, triptychs, and more.
Tom Forrestall was born in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley in , near what is now Middleton. When he was six, his family moved to Dartmouth and remained there for nine years. At eleven years old, Forrestall began taking Saturday classes at the Nova Scotia College of Art. In he began his studies at Mount Allison University, graduating four years later. His teachers there were Alex Colville, Lawren P. Harris (–), and Ted Pulford (–). Studies with Colville
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Thomas DeVany Forrestall, C.M., O.C., O.N.S., B.F.A. LL.D., R.C.A was born in Middleton Nova Scotia, in Forrestall's family later moved to Dartmouth which allowed him to attend Saturday morning art classes at the Nova Scotia College of Art in Halifax in the s. In , Forrestall was awarded a scholarship to the Fine Arts department at Mount Allison University, where he studied with Lawren P. Harris and Alex Colville. He graduated in , and received one of the first Canada Council grants for independent study, which provided him with the opportunity to travel throughout Europe. Upon his return he became assistant curator of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. He has been a freelance artist since
Forrestall's art has been classified as Magic Realism - an imprecise term often used to describe the work of a coterie of east-coast Canadian painters who emerged after the Second World War, including Alex Colville, Christopher Pratt and Mary Pratt. Although their geographic roots, styles and vocabularies were similar, these artists applied themselves differently, each adapting naturalism in a personal way.
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