Henry George Glyde

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Henry George Glyde (Born June 18th 1906 in Luton, England. Died March 31st 1998 in Victoria, Canada) was a Canadian painter and art educator.

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Glyde was trained at the Royal College of Art in London, England (1926-30). He came to Canada in 1935 to teach drawing in Calgary at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art and in 1936 became head of the art department. He was also head of the painting division of the Banff School of Fine Arts (1936-66). In 1937 he began teaching community art classes with the Department of Extension, University of Alberta, where he went on to establish the Division of Fine Art. He taught there between 1946 and 1966.

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Glyde's most significant works are oils and murals that documented aspects of urban and rural prairie life in a style that could be called social realism. His murals are classical with sombre colours sombre and figure groupings that are mythological and symbolic in mood and content. The emphasis on structural realities carried over to his interpretation of the Alberta landscape and to his portrayal of the British Columbia coast. A major retrospective exhibition was produced by the Glenbow Museum in 1987.

== Family == HG Glyde married HM Allwood. They had three children, Helen, Henry Russell and Gerald Patrick. Helen married Don Collinson and they had two children, S. Karen and L. Christine. Henry and his wife Jan had two children, Mark and Stephen. Gerald and his wife Karen had three children, Drian, Heather and Colleen.

He died on March 31st 1998 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

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