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Alex Colville Canadian Artist
The Canadian painter Alex Colville was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1920. He studied painting at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Jersey in 1938-1942. During WWII he worked as a war artist, painting troops landing at Juno Beach on D-Day. Since 1963 the artist has lived and worked as a freelance painter in Nova Scotia.
Colville has exhibited extensively throughout the world.
In 1967 the artist was commissioned by the Canadian government to design various gold coins. Colville received numerous prizes and honorary awards from various universities and institutions in Canada and the United States.
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