Dacre F. Boulton
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Dacre Fiennes Boulton, (February 23, 1906-May 26, 1984) was a Canadian artist and designer.
The second son of D’Arcy Everard Boulton and Georgina Boswell Barrett-Lennard, he was born in Russell Manitoba. He was educated at St. John’s College School (now St. John’s-Ravenscourt School) in Winnipeg, and soon showed artistic talent. Between September 1925 and July 1929, he was in St. Louis (MO), where he may have studied art at Washington University in St. Louis. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art in July 1929.[1] In 1931 and 1932 he traveled to Europe, supported both times by a William Emden Cresson Travelling Scholarship. He was hired by the Public Works of Art Project in 1933,[2][2] and his painting Winter was shown in the 1934 exhibition of works by PWAP artists held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C.[3][3]
Boulton was denied entrance to the United States in January 1937, and returned to Manitoba, where he worked at Bridgens in Winnipeg. He was elected as an associate member of the Manitoba Society of Artists in 1939, and joined the Winnipeg Light Infantry on 30 July 1940.[4] By 1941 he was in Toronto, where he registered with the Ontario College of Art.[5] Later that year he illustrated E.T. Burch’s humorous book, As I Said to the Colonel, published by Ryerson Press. Listed in the University of Toronto Library Catalogue; available at
Victoria University (Toronto) E.J. Pratt Library, Canadian Pamphlets Collection UA600 .B8[6] In 1942 he joined Massey Harris Aircraft Division, and he illustrated and laid out their Guide for the Newcomer. In 1943 Boulton enlisted with the Royal Canadian Engineers/ Canadian Infantry Corps, and provided illustrations for Homes or Hovels: Some Authoritative Views on Canadian Housing by Catherine Bauer Wurster, ed. by Anthony Adamson (Toronto: Canadian Institute of International Affairs and Canadian Assoc. for Adult Education, 1943). Although he was offered a job as the creative director of Carton Specialities Ltd. (later part of Domtar Ltd.[7]) in June of 1945, he was unable to take it up until he was demobilised in April 1946, and worked there, with one interruption, until his retirement in 1971.
Alongside his commercial work Dacre Boulton worked actively as a portrait and landscape painter. He became a member of the Arts & Letters Club in 1980, and exhibited two paintings (Birches and Fast Water Foam) in the Club's annual show in 1981.
Dacre Boulton married Phyllis Ruth Cox (1908-1995) on July 8, 1942 at Grove Farm in Port Credit Ontario. They are survived by two children: D'Arcy Boulton (heraldist) (b. 1946) and Mary Georgina Boulton FitzPatrick (b. 1949).
Two of his paintings, Winter and Industrial, are now in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C.[3]
References
- ↑ "Student records, ca. 1918–49 · PAFA's Digital Archives". pafaarchives.org.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Dacre F. Boulton: The Rediscovery of a New Deal Artist". January 18, 2017.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Dacre F. Boulton | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
- ↑ Identity Card, Boulton, D.F., no. 1737
- ↑ Student registration card for 1941-41
- ↑ Brief notice in The Calgary(Alberta) Herald, Sat. Nov. 8, 1941, p. 12 (Vol. 58, p. 38).
- ↑ "History | Domtar". www.domtar.com.
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