Ted GODWIN (1933- 2013)Previous ArtistNext Artist

1962 Painting at Stratford Exhibition

A painter must be involved as deeply and completely in life as possible for it is only through living that "life" can be assessed, re-arranged, or mirrored. My painting is a process of discovery and evaluation of the internal and external forces I apprehend. These stimuli are re-arranged to become part of my personal vocabulary of abstraction. The success of a work is dependent upon how well the stimulus has been absorbed and the degree of command I have established over the image and the artifices used to create it with.

1965 NMAG Exhibition

My concern while making a painting is in obtaining a cohesive order of a group of images and events. Viewers (I prefer to call them participants) establish rapport at the level of generalities rather than with the events or situations that concerned me while making the work.

A painting should interrupt the surface it is on, posing a confrontation between itself and things animate and inanimate in it's environment.

I prefer paintings to be environmental to the extent that the viewer is sufficiently involved in all or some of the external dimensions.

BORN: August 13th,1933
Calgary, Alberta

Education

  • Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and Art
  • 1951-1955Emma Lake Artist"s workshops
  • 1959- Barnett Newman
  • 1960- John Ferren
  • 1964- Jules Olitski
  • 1965- Lawrence Alloway (Admin. co-ordinator & Participant)

Employment 1955 - 1964

  • Display Artist and Show-card writer
  • Art Director Television
  • Neon Sign Designer
  • Canada Council Grant - Greece 1962-1963
  • 1964 - 2000 University of Regina, Faculty of Fine Arts 

Exhibitions

(partial list) ..... toured nationally (*)
N.B. Listings are One-Man Exhibitions unless * noted

  • 1955
    • London, OT - Young Contemporaries (group)*
  • 1958
    • Calgary, AB - Allied Art Centre
  • 1959
    • Ottawa, OT. - 3rd Biennial Canadian Art N. Gall.*
  • 1960
    • Regina, SK - The May Show - N.M.A.G. (group)
  • 1961
    • Regina, SK - Win Hedore Exhibition - N.M.A.G.
    • Ottawa, OT - Five Painters From Regina N.G.*
    • Ottawa, OT- 4th Biennial of Canadian Art N.G.*
  • 1962
    • Stratford, OT - Shakespere Festival*
    • Toronto, OT- Three from Regina D. Cameron Gallery Toronto*
    • Ottawa, OT- Two-Man Show Blue Barn Gall.*
    • Montreal, P.Q. - Two-Man Show - Mtl. Mus. Fine Art*
  • 1964
    • Winnipeg, MN- Winnipeg Biennial (group)*
  • 1965
    • Regina, SK- N.M.A.G.
    • Ottawa, OT- 6th Biennial Canadian Art*
  • 1966
    • Winnipeg, MN- Univ. of Man.
    • Ontario Art Circuit - (touring)
  • 1967
    • Atlantic Art Circuit - (touring)
    • Calgary, AB- Allied Art Centre
    • Fredericton, N.B. - Saskatchewan Painters, Lord Beaverbrook Gallery*
    • Ottawa, OT - Blue Barn Gallery
    • Montreal P.Q. - Canadian Pavillion Expo 67 (group)*
  • 1968
    • Regina, SK- (Tartans) Dunlop Gall
    • Toronto, OT- Painting 68 AGO (group)*
    • Winnipeg, MN - The Winnipeg Show W.A.G. (group)*
    • Regina, SK - Faculty Exhibition NMAG (group)*
    • Montreal, P.Q. - Selected Sask. Painters Waddington*
  • 1970
    • Regina, SK - Regina Invitational Exh. NMAG (group)&
  • 1971
    • Vancouver, BC - Bau-Xi Gallery Selects (group)*
    • Toronto, OT- York University
    • Vancouver, BC - Bau-Xi Gallery
    • Edmonton, AB - Edmonton Art Gall.
    • Galway, Eire - Two-Person Show (Phyllis & Ted Godwin), Kenny's Art Gallery*
  • 1974
    • Regina, SK - Dying Orchids Perry's Art Centre
    • Hamilton, OT- 9 out of 10 (survey excl. Ont.)*
    • Victoria, BC - Bau-Xi Gallery
    • Toronto. OT- Ontario Community Collects 1776-1975*
    • Moose Jaw, SK - Landscapes *
  • 1976
    • Ottawa, OT- Emma Lake and after Nat. Gall.*
    • Waterloo, OT- Two Person Show (Phyllis) Univ. Gall.*
    • Montreal, PQ - Saskatchewan at the Olympics (group)
    • Mendel Saskatoon - Dunlop - Regina*
    • Winnipeg, MN- 64-74 Survey - Subway art Gall.
    • Winnipeg, MN- Rocks, Flowers, Scissors Subway Gall.
    • Regina, SK - Rocks, Flowers, Scissors & Sculp.
    • Dunlop Art Gallery
  • 1977
    • Toronto, OT - Dying Orchids & Tartans Bau-Xi Gall.
    • Calgary, AB - Canadian Art Gall.
    • Edmonton, AB- Lefebvre Gallery
    • Calgary, AB - Western Summer #1 Canadian Art Gall.
    • Winnipeg, MN - Western Summer #2 Subway Art Gall.
  • 1978
    • Toronto, OT - Western Summer Bau-Xi Gall.
    • Calgary, AB - Canadian Art Gall.
  • 1979
    • Toronto, OT - Bau-XI Gall.
    • Winnipeg, MN - Phoenix Group sh. Cardigan-Milne Gall.
    • Vancouver, BC - Bau-Xi Gallery
  • 1980
    • Toronto, OT - Western Summer #3 - Bau-Xi Gall.
    • Calgary, AB - Western Summer #4 Canadian Art Gall.
    • Vancouver, BC - Bau-Xi Gallery
    • Calgary, AB - Glenbow Art Museum
    • Calgary & Edmonton, AB - Alberta Now (group tour)*
    • Calgary, AB - Historical Survey of Watercolour in Alberta, Glenbow Art Museum (group)*
    • Saskatoon, SK - Saskatchewan Watercolour 1905-1980, Mendel Art Gallery (group)*
    • Toronto, OT - Western Summer #5 - Daysend on Moab Bau-Xi Gallery
    • Edmonton, AB - The Big Picture Edmonton Art Gallery*
  • 1981
    • Vancouver, BC - Western summer #6 Bau-Xi
    • Regina, SK - Two-person Show (phyllis) Assiniboia G.*
    • Creemore, OT- The Regina Five 1961-1981 (touring)*
    • Regina, SK - Faculty Exhibition N.M.A.G. (group)*
  • 1982
    • Toronto, OT- Spiritscapes Bau-Xi Gallery
    • Calgary, AB - New Work Canadian Art Gall.
    • Vancouver, BC - New Work - Bau-Xi Gallery
  • 1983
    • Toronto. OT - A day on the Highwood Bau-Xi Gall.
    • Calgary, AB - The Portals - Canadian Art Gall.
    • Regina, SK - New Work Phyllis and Ted Assiniboia
  • 1984
    • Toronto, OT- New Work Bau-Xi Gallery
    • Vancouver, BC - New Work Bau-Xi Gallery
  • 1985
    • Regina, SK - Phyllis and Ted Assiniboia Gallery
    • Toronto, OT- Irish series & Ophelia Observed, Bau-Xi Gallery
    • Calgary, AB - Wild Rice, Lily Pads, & Summer Breezes - Canadian Art Galleries
  • 1986
    • Regina, SK- Assiniboia Gallery
    • Vancouver, BC - Bau-Xi Gallery
    • Calgary, AB - Founder's Show Alberta College of Art *
  • 1987
    • Regina, SK - Wild Rice, Lily Pad, & Summer Breezes Farewell - Paper works - Assiniboia
    • Calgary, AB - Wild Rice, Lily Pads, & Summer Breeze Farewell - Canadian Art Galleries
  • 1988
    • Toronto, OT- Gallery Moos Limited
    • Ottawa, OT- National Gallery Inaugural Exhibition*
    • Calgary, AB - From the Landscape - Alberta College of Art *
  • 1989
    • Vancouver, BC- Recent Painting Bau-Xi Gallery
    • Vancouver, BC - Recent Painting Simon Fraser University B.C.
    • Calgary, AB - Landscape into Painting Alberta College of Art *
    • Saskatoon, SK - flat Side of the Landscape: The Emma lake Artist's Workshops *; Vancouver Art Gallery, Edmonton Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Windsor, and the Mackenzie Art Gallery Regina.*
  • 1992
    • Regina, SK- Lower Bow (four One Man shows ensemble) Lower Bow book Launch MacKenzie Art Gallery
    • Calgary, AB - Lower Bow Canadian Art gallery Mar 10-28
    • Regina, Sask. - Lower Bow Assiniboia Art Gallery Mar 10-28
    • Toronto, OT- Lower bow Bau-Xi Gallery Mar. 10-28
    • Vancouver, BC - Lower Bow Bau-Xi Gallery Mar. 10-28
    • Toronto, OT McMichael Canadian Art Centre June 28- Sept.13 (group)
  • 1992-94
    • Quebec City, PQ Crisis of Abstraction Musee de Quebec, National Gallery of Canada Ottawa OT, Mackenzie Art Gallery Regina, SK, Glenbow Museum Calgary, AB, Art Gallery of Hamilton Hamilton, OT
  • 1993
    • Toronto, OT Zoomorphism - Bau-Xi Gallery February 16 - March 6
    • Regina, SK Assiniboia Gallery Nov 27 - Dec 11 (3 person Show) Phyllis Godwin, Teddi Dreidiger (daughter) and moi!*
    • Taejon, Korea Expo 93 Reflecting Paradise*
    • Calgary, AB New Work - definitely Canadian Art Galleries Dec.4th -31
  • 1993-94
    • Winnipeg, MN Achieving the Modern - Wpg. Art Gallery, Confederation Art Centre PEI, Mendel Art Gallery Saskatoon SK, Edmonton. Art Gallery AB, Art Gallery of Windsor OT*
  • 1994
    • Vancouver, BC - Telegraph Cove Bau-Xi Art Gallery Sept. 5 - 24
    • Mandalas Bau-Xi Van, Candadian Art Galleries Calgary, Assiniboia Art Gallery Regina SK, Bau-Xi Art Gallery To. OT
  • 1995
    • 50 years - Canadian Art Galleries - Fall*
    • Kluane Assiniboia Art Gallery Regina SK October
    • Kluane Canadian Art Galleries Calgary AB November
  • 1995-96
    • Over there, Out here: Paris, Emma Lake, Banff, Calgary - Glenbow*
  • 1996
    • Ted Godwin’s Kluane Yukon Arts Centre Whitehorse, Yukon
    • Spring Kluane double show Bau-Xi Toronto - Bau-Xi Van (open same day)
  • 1997
    • North and Northwest images from the land of the Dene, Kwakiutl, and T’iemshian Bau Xi Toronto
  • 1998
    • Introduction Wallace Gallery Calgary AB
    • Drohan, Godwin and Lochhead Landscapes Wallace Galleries
  • 1999
    • Regina Five historical - Wallace Galleries (Mckay Retro tie in)
    • Assiniboia Galleries three person book launch show Ted Godwin, Phyllis Godwin, and Luther Pokrant
    • Book Launch - Messages from the Real World - A Handbook for the emerging Artist
    • Ted Godwin RCA The Tartan Year 1967 - 1976 opening Nickle Arts Museum September 24th
    • Ted Godwin Beyond the Tartan Years Wallace Galleries September 24
  • 1999 - 2002
    • Ted Godwin RCA The Tartan Years 1967 - 1976 tour
      Mackenzie Art Gallery Regina SK Spring 2000
      Carleton University Art Gallery Ottawa, OT Fall 2000
      Confederation Art Centre Charlottetown, PEI Winter 2001
      Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery Oshawa OT, Fall 2001
  • 2000
    • One man Assiniboia Gallery
    • One Man Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto Fall
    • Wallace Gallery, Calgary, AB “In the Land of the Kutenai”
    • Bau-Xi Galleries, Toronto, Bright waters & significant images from former lives
    • Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, SK, New Work
  • 2001
    • Bau-Xi Gallery Vancouver, “Lost Lake and other Considerations
    • Wallace Gallery Calgary AB “Kenauk” series September
  • 2002
    • Bau-Xi Vancouver & Toronto “Kenauk Two”
    • Assiniboia Gallery, “Regina Kenauk Three”
  • 2003
    • Wallace Gallery, Calgary, “The Newfoundland Suite”

Major Publications - Critical Reviews - and or Reproduction of Work

NB Items asterisked (*) indicate book publications concerned solely with Ted Godwin

  • 1962
    • Canadian Art Magazine
  • 1966
    • Painting in Canada - a History J. Russell Harper
  • 1970
    • Canadian Art Today - Studio International Will Townsend
  • 1972
    • Contemporary Canadian Painting - 24 Artists -William Withrow
    • ArtsCanada
  • 1973
    • Oxford History of Canadian Painting - Dennis Reid
  • 1974
    • Towards a People's Art; a History of Canadian Painting - Barry Lord
  • 1976
    • Ontario Community Collects; Canadian Painting 1776 to the present
    • ArtsWest - Lora Burke
  • 1978
    • The Canadian Forum - Ted Godwin in conversation with Joan Murray
  • 1979
    • ArtsCanada
    • Artist's Review - Sheila Stanley -
  • 1980
    • ArtsWest Oct.
    • Calgary Herald Oct Exh. review Tousley
  • 1981
    • Globe and Mail Feb. Exh. review May
  • 1982
    • Globe and mail - Feb. Exh. review May
  • 1983
    • Calgary Herald - April Exh. review Tousley
    • VISIONS - 13 part TV series TV Ontario
    • Contemporary Canadian Art - Burnett & Schiff
  • 1988
    • Art Carleton - Barbara Stevenson University of Carleton Press
  • 1989
    • Mendel Art Gallery The flat side of the Landscape
  • 1991
    • Alberta Art Foundation film For Television distribution "Investing in Art"1
    • Lower Bow Exhibition and Lower Bow book Regina leader Post (Nov)
    • *Lower Bow - Ted Godwin
    • Claridge -Montreal (book)
  • 1992
    • Lower Bow Exhibition reviewed Calgary Herald,
    • Lower Bow Book reviewed Alberta Report March
    • Lower Bow Book and exhibition reviewed in Cityscope (May/June)
  • 1993
    • Reflecting Paradise Expo 93 Korea
    • Celebrating the Littoral in Landscape Times Colonist Victoria BC2
    • Achieving the Modern Winnipeg Art Gallery Press
    • The Crisis of Abstraction in Canada - the 1950's
  • 1997
    • Treasured Moments Jim Kurtz memorial book
    • M.C. Treasured Moments evening Saskatchewan Hotel Regina SK
  • 1998
    • Kiyooka & Regina Five Film Bravo Channel and CBC National (Documentary film on Kiyooka and Regina Five)
  • 1999
    • *Messages from the Real World - A Handbook for the emerging Artist-Ted Godwin
    • *Ted Godwin, RCA The Tartan Years 1967 – 1976 Dr Anne Davis
    • Recipient Saskatchewan Book Award best new educational publication for "Messages from the Real World - A Handbook for the emerging Artist"
  • 2001
    • "A World Away" Documentary film on the Regina Five premiered Bravo Channel June 01
    • Alberta College of Art Award of Excellence
    • University of Regina Honorary Doctorate (LLD)

Miscellaneous

  • 1958 Second prize N.E.S.A. (international neon design competition)
  • 1964 Merit Award - Winnipeg Biennial
  • 1965 Initiated & Organized Nathan Stolow Seminar on Contemporary Painting Media
  • 1968 Winnipeg Show Purchase Award
  • 1970 Organized Regina invitational Exhibition N.M.A.G.
  • 1974 Royal Canadian Academy (R.C.A. elect)
  • 1978 Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Medal
  • 1985 February 22nd sobriety date
  • 1987
    • Quit Smoking
    • Inducted Fine Arts Archives - University of Regina
  • 1988-91 Member Calgary Allied Arts Foundation
  • 1990-91 Chairman Calgary Allied Arts Foundation
  • 2000 Professor Emeritus University of Regina
  • 2001
    • Award of Excellence Alberta College of Art “Governors’ Award of Excellence”
    • Award of Honorary Doctorate University of Regina, Regina SK Fall convocation 01

Major Collections (partial)

Agnes Etherington Art Centre3

  • Alberta Art Foundation
  • Art Gallery of Ontario
  • Art Gallery of Hamilton
  • Bank of Montreal
  • Bennet Jones
  • BP Canada
  • Canada Council Art Bank
  • Canadian Embassy Washington
  • Canadian Embassy Kiev
  • CanaRim
  • CBC
  • City of Toronto
  • Confederation Art Centre
  • Crown Life
  • Czar Resources
  • Daon Developement
  • Esso Resources Canada
  • Glenbow Art Museum
  • Gulf Oil
  • Hart House
  • Imperial oil
  • Inco
  • John Shaw Hong Kong
  • Lord Beaverbrook Art Gallery
  • Manufacturers Life
  • MMK Co Ltd Tokyo
  • National Gallery of Canada
  • Norcen
  • Osler, Hoskins & Harcourt
  • Peter Whyte Foundation
  • Petro-Can
  • Polysar
  • Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery
  • Royal Bank
  • Sabine Canada Ltd.
  • Saskatchewan Arts Board
  • Seneca College
  • Shell Resources Canada Ltd.
  • The Permanent
  • Thorne Riddell
  • Toronto-Dominion Bank
  • Touche Ross
  • Triarch
  • University of Regina
  • University of Sask.
  • University of Calgary
  • University of Manitoba
  • WestCoast Petroleum Ltd.
  • First Energy Capital Corp