Frank Leonard Brooks

Leonard Brooks (7 November 1911 – 20 November 2011) was a Canadian artist.

Leonard Brooks
Born
Frank Leonard Brooks

(1911-11-07)November 7, 1911
London, England
DiedNovember 20, 2011(2011-11-20) (aged 100)
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
NationalityCanadian
Educationmostly self-taught
Known forPainting, Murals, Prints
Spouse(s)Reva Silverman (married 1935) (after marriage known as Reva Brooks)
ElectedA.R.C.A., 1939; O.S.A., 1939; C.P.G., C.P.E., Arts and Letters Club, Toronto

Biography

Born in London, England, Brooks arrived in Canada in 1912. He was primarily self-taught, but studied at Central Technical School, then the Ontario College of Art and with Frank Johnston (1929).[1] Brooks taught at Northern Vocational School in Toronto[1] and became an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1939. He joined the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve in May 1943. During his posting as a war artist (August 1944 – May 1946), he painted the movements of an aircraft carrier in the waters of Scotland and the activities of mine sweepers and motor torpedo boats in the English Channel off Normandy.

After the war, he obtained a grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs to study art in Mexico. He taught for several years in the music department at the Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende, north of Mexico City. On 12 August 1950 he and his wife Reva, as well as Stirling Dickinson and five other American teachers, were deported from Mexico. The official reason was that they did not have proper work visas but the cause may have been a falling out with the owner of a rival school. Leonard Brooks was eventually able to get the deportation order lifted through his contact with General Ignacio M. Beteta, whose brother Ramón Beteta Quintana was an influential politician at the national level.[2] Brooks has published a number of works on watercolour and oil painting techniques. He turned 100 on November 7, 2011.[3] He died 20 November 2011 in San Miguel de Allende.[4]

Honours

See also

References
  1. MacDonald 1967, p. 91.
  2. Berger, Dina; Wood, Andrew Grant (January 12, 2010). Holiday in Mexico: Critical Reflections on Tourism and Tourist Encounters. Duke University Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-8223-4571-8. Retrieved July 9, 2012.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  3. Brooks, Frank Leonard (November 7, 2011). "Homage to Leonard Brooks - 100 Years". Frank Leonard Brooks. Archived from the original on October 7, 2016. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
  4. Fine, Philip (January 11, 2012). "Canadian war artist Leonard Brooks, 100, made Mexico his home". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
  5. "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on May 26, 2011. Retrieved September 11, 2013.

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