David Lloyd Blackwood
(1941 - 2022) OSA, RCA, Order of Canada
Artwork from the 1980s
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Fire Down on the Labrador
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1980 and inscribed “Artist’s Proof 5/10 Ed. 50” in the lower margin
31.75 x 19.75 ins ( 80.6 x 50.2 cms ) ( subject )
Auction Estimate: $25,000.00 - $30,000.00
Price Realized $48,300.00
Sale date: May 25th 2017
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Boat Passing, Wesleyville
watercolour
signed and dated 1980 lower right
18.5 x 25.25 ins ( 47 x 64.1 cms )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Fire Down on the Labrador
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1980 and inscribed “Artist’s Proof 3/10 Ed. 50” in the lower margin
31.75 x 19.75 ins ( 80.6 x 50.2 cms ) ( subject )
Auction Estimate: $60,000.00 - $80,000.00
Price Realized $84,000.00
Sale date: June 8th 2023
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Fire Down on the Labrador
colour etching & aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1980, editioned “Artist’s Proof 10/10” and inscribed “Ed. 50” in the lower margin
31.5 x 19.75 in ( 80 x 50.2 cm ) ( plate size )
Auction Estimate: $60,000.00 - $80,000.00
Price Realized $96,000.00
Sale date: May 30th 2024
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Wesleyville, March Ice Raft
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1981 and numbered 9/15 in the lower margin
19.75 x 32 ins ( 50.2 x 81.3 cms ) ( subject )
Auction Estimate: $2,500.00 - $3,500.00
Price Realized $5,520.00
Sale date: June 1st 2016
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Ephraim Kelloway’s Door
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1981 and numbered 38/50 in the lower margin
31.5 x 19.75 ins ( 80 x 50.2 cms ) ( plate size )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Home in Safe Harbour
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1981 and numbered “25/50” in the lower margin
16.75 x 20.5 ins ( 42.5 x 52.1 cms ) ( sight )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Captain Alb and Aunt Nance
etching and aquatint, printed in colours
signed, titled, dated 1982 and numbered 44/50 in the lower margin
31.75 x 19.75 ins ( 80.6 x 50.2 cms )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
The Flora Nickerson in the Labrador Sea
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1982 and numbered 1/50 in the lower margin
16 x 22.75 ins ( 40.6 x 57.8 cms ) ( plate size )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Skipper Nat Walking Home
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1982 and numbered 25/50 in the lower margin
7 x 9.75 ins ( 17.8 x 24.8 cms ) ( plate size )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Captain Alb and Aunt Nance
graphite on paper
signed and dated 1982 (twice) lower right; tilted and dated to a gallery label on the reverse
32 x 20 ins ( 81.3 x 50.8 cms ) ( image )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Captain Alb and Aunt Nance
etching, aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1982 and numbered “22/50” in the lower margin; titled, dated and numbered to a gallery label on the reverse
31.5 x 19.5 ins ( 80 x 49.5 cms ) ( plate size )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Gram Glover’s House on Bragg’s Island
etching, aquatint in colours
signed, titled, dated 1982, and numbered 7/50 in the lower margin
5 x 8 ins ( 12.7 x 20.3 cms ) ( sight )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Skipper Nat Walking Home
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1982 and numbered "24/50" in the lower margin
6.75 x 9.75 in ( 17.1 x 24.8 cm ) ( plate size )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Uncle Eli Glover Moving
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1982 and numbered "3/50" in the lower margin
13.75 x 33 in ( 34.9 x 83.8 cm ) ( plate size )
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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
