Artist John Adrian Darley Dingle
Title The Bathing Dock [Actinolite, Ont.]
Media oil on wood panel
Size 7.5 x 14.5 in. / 19 x 36.8 cm.
Frame Size 17.5 x 24.5 x 1 in.
Estimate $500 - $700
Notes
signed lower right; bears title on artist's label verso; framed
Provenance
Kensington Fine Art Gallery, Calgary, label verso; private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
John Adrian Darley Dingle ~ [1911-1974] Canadian OSA, RCA
Born in Barmouth, North Wales, Dingle came to Canada with his parents in 1914 and settled in Oakville, Ontario. He worked in an insurance office until he was 19. In 1931 he took instruction from J.W. Beatty at the summer school of the Ontario College of Art. He went to England where he was employed as an illustrator by Stillwell and Darby, Lond. [1935-37] and in his free hours studied at the Goldsmith’s College of Art, London, under James Bateman and John Mansbridge. In England he executed several portraits and exhibited with the London Portrait Society. On his return to Canada he became a regular exhibitor at the OSA annuals and with other groups. Much of his work was sold through the T. Eaton Company’s Fine Art Gallery. He taught at the Doon School of Fine Arts, Doon [Kitchener], Ont. [1952-54] and the Etobicoke Community Art School, Ont. [1954]
biography and another examples in N.G.C. Vol.1, A-F, ed.C.Hill, pg. 274; Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.1, pg. 180
exhibition list in
R.C.A.A., by E.McMann, pg. 105;
M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg. 103