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24.25 x 31.25 x 0.75 in (61.6 x 79.4 x 1.9 cm) including frame
Dennis Burton
Dennis Burton (1933-2013)
Dennis Burton was born in Lethbridge, Alberta on December 6, 1933. He won a scholarship to Pickering College in Newmarket before entering the Ontario College of Art in 1952. At OCA, he studied drawing and graphics under Frederick Hagan and explored abstraction with Jock Macdonald. He received the J.F.M. Stewart Scholarship, R.S. McLaughlin Scholarship, and a traveling scholarship to study at the University of Southern California under Rico Lebrun in 1955. He also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in 1959 with Ben Shahn.
Burton worked as a graphic designer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1956 to 1960, creating the iconic skater animation that introduced "Hockey Night in Canada." He began painting full-time in 1960.
A 1955 exhibition of Painters Eleven at Toronto's Hart House turned Burton toward abstraction. He exhibited with Toronto's Isaacs Gallery beginning in 1961, becoming one of the youngest members of the Isaacs Group, which included Michael Snow, Joyce Wieland, Graham Coughtry, and Gordon Rayner.
Burton is best known for his "Garterbeltmania" series from the mid-1960s, paintings of women in underwear executed in a Pop Art style. These works brought national recognition and controversy, including denunciation by John Diefenbaker in the House of Commons, who coined the term "garter belt-maniac."
Burton was also an accomplished musician who played saxophone and co-founded The Artists Jazz Band in 1962 with fellow Toronto visual artists. He played a significant role in alternative art education, co-founding the New School of Art in 1965 and later Art's Sake Inc. in 1977, the first independent artist-run post-secondary art school.
In 1970, he chaired the Drawing and Painting department at the Ontario College of Art before returning to direct the New School of Art from 1971-1977. In 1979, he joined the faculty of Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, where he taught for 20 years until his retirement in 1999.
Burton's work is held in major collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Smithsonian Institute. He died on July 8, 2013, in Vancouver at age 79.
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