1901-1967
Jack Weldon Humphrey, born in Saint John, New Brunswick.Studied at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, under Phillip Hale and painting at the National Academy of Design, the Arts Students League, New York, and Charles Hawthorn's
Cape Cod School.Tiffany Foundation student at Oyster Bay, Long Island, 1927.Was in Europe, 1929-1930, studying in Paris with Andre Lhote, and at the Grande Chaumiere academy and in Munich at the Hans Hofmann school; also travelled in Italy, Holland,
Belgium, and England.Visited Vancouver in 1933 and Mexico in 1938.Founding member of the C.G.P., 1933.Has taught at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. LL.D. (New Brunswick), 1951.Painted in Paris on a government fellowship, 1952-1954.Lived at Saint
John.Painter of landscape and figures mainly in water colour.
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