Artist John Adrian Darley Dingle
Title From the Pier [St. Andrews by the Sea, N.B.]
Media oil on wood board
Size 9 x 12 in. / 22.9 x 30.5 cm.
Frame Size 17 x 20 x 1 in.
Sold $650
Estimate $300 - $500
Notes
signed lower right; titled on artist's label verso; framed
Provenance
Gallery 1667, Halifax, stamp verso; from a Calgary estate
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 & 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 example 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 and exhibition list in M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg. 103