David Lloyd Blackwood
(1941 - 2022) OSA, RCA, Order of Canada
Artwork from the 1970s
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Elijah Mullet Dreams
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1975 and numbered 44/50 in the lower margin
13.75 x 10.75 in ( 34.9 x 27.3 cm ) ( plate size )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Captain Jess Home from the Labrador
colour etching & aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1976 and numbered 30/35 in the lower margin; unframed
35 x 24.5 ins ( 88.9 x 62.2 cms ) ( sheet )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
March: Wesleyville from Bennett’s High Island
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1976 and numbered 22/35 in the lower margin
19.75 x 31.75 ins ( 50.2 x 80.6 cms ) ( plate size )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Uncle Ned Hill: Home in Wesleyville
etching and aquatint
signed, titled, numbered 30/35 and dated 1976 in the lower margin; sold together with the publication, “The Art of David Blackwood” by William Gough (Toronto, 1988); signed and dated by the artist on the title page
10.75 x 13.75 ins ( 27.3 x 34.9 cms ) ( plate size )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Uncle Ned Hill Home in Wesleyville
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1976 and numbered 13/35 in the lower margin
10.75 x 14 ins ( 27.3 x 35.6 cms ) ( plate size )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Mummer Group from Pound Cove
etching, aquatint in colours
signed, titled, dated 1976 and inscribed “artists proof” in the lower margin
8.5 x 10 ins ( 21.6 x 25.4 cms ) ( plate size )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
April Iceberg off Bragg’s Island
etching, aquatint in colours
signed, titled, dated 1976 and inscribed “artists proof” in the lower margin
19.75 x 31.75 ins ( 50.2 x 80.6 cms ) ( plate size )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Cape Freels
watercolour
signed and dated 1977 lower left
17.75 x 24.75 ins ( 45.1 x 62.9 cms ) ( sight )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Grenfell Rescued
etching
signed, titled, dated 1977 and numbered 2/50 in the lower margin; unframed
25 x 31 in ( 63.5 x 78.7 cm ) ( sheet )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
The Flora S. Nickerson Down on the Labrador
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1978 and numbered 17/50 in the lower margin
19.75 x 15.75 ins ( 50.2 x 40 cms ) ( plate size )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Captain Job Barbour Dreams
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1979 and numbered 37/50 in the lower margin; unframed
24.5 x 20.5 ins ( 62.2 x 52.1 cms ) ( sheet )
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David Blackwood Biography
(1941 - 2022) OSA, RCA, Order of Canada
Born in Wesleyville, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland, one of the major sealing towns of that province, he is a descendant of a long line of master mariners. Blackwood was awarded a Government of Newfoundland Centennial scholarship to study at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto under Carl Schaefer, John Alfsen, H.W.G. MacDonald and Frederick Hagan. He went on to become Art Master at Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario. In 1969, Blackwood became the first artist-in-residence at Erindale College, University of Toronto, Mississauga.
David Blackwood uses his background on the East coast of Canada to create grande visual narratives reflecting both the landscape and culture of the province with an emphasis on combining the history, legends, and myths of settlement and developing culture of Newfoundland. He is best-known for his colour etchings with aquatint. His work was used to provide illustrations for Farley Mowat’s “Wake of the Great Sealers”, a collection of stories about the heroic Newfoundlanders who braved the icy seas of the treacherous North Atlantic in search of seals. Driven by hard times at home it was the only hope many of the men had of making money to feed their families. Men perished when their ships went down during wintry gales. Blackwood, a native of a sealing town himself, and a descendent of fishing skippers and sealing captains, provides Mowat’s stirring text with equally stirring and poetic figurative drawings and prints.
Blackwood was awarded the Order of Canada in 1993 in recognition of his work contributing to and preserving the cultural life and heritage of Canada through his artwork. At the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Blackwood Research Centre within the Morin Gelber Print and Drawing Centre was created after a major acquisition of the artists works in 2000. The museum also elected Blackwood as its honourary Chairman in 2003, the first practicing artist to hold this position. In the same year, he was awarded the Order of Ontario.
As one of Canada's most celebrated print-makers, David Blackwood's works are part of significant Canadian and international private and corporate collections including The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada.
Sources: "A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume I: A-F", compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1977
