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George Franklin Arbuckle(1909 - 2001)George Franklin Arbuckle was born in Toronto,
Ontario in 1909. He studied at the Ontario College of Art under J.W.
Beatty, F.S. Challener, & J.E.H. MacDonald. George also taught art
at the Northern Vocational School in Toronto from 1932-38, and at the Franz
Johnston Summer School in Georgian Bay from 1932-40. He was married to
a Canadian painter named Frances-Anne Johnston, daughter of Group of Seven
member Franz Johnston. George was made president of the Royal Canadian
Academy from 1960-64. He is represented in the I.B.M. Collection of
Contemporary Art, and the R.C.A. Diploma Collection in the National Gallery
of Canada. He exhibited at the Royal Canadian Academy from 1932-66, and
the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from 1946-67. George's special knowledge of historical subjects
contributed greatly to his stature as an illustrator, his landscapes,
cityscapes and figurative paintings offer a mixture of both Realism and
Impressionism.
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