British, Canadian 1930-2015

Donald Harvey’s Fine Arts 401 Working on Painting Projects ca. 1960s Photographed by Bill Halkett Image courtesy of the University of Victoria Special Collections

Donald Harvey’s 1970 retrospective at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria featured his “broken hard-edged style,” a phrase coined by fellow artist Maxwell Bates who described Harvey’s work as an innovative departure from the fashionable hard-edge style of the 60s. Harvey founded the University of Victoria Department of Visual Arts in 1964 with colleague John Dobereiner.  They recruited internationally recognized artists to join the faculty including British glass and plastics sculptor Eric Hilton, British painter and printmaker Peter Daglish, American Fluxus artist Dana Atchley, and Canadian artist Patricia Martin Bates, who all mentored a new generation of practicing artists.

Ripple 1965
Acrylic paint on canvas
146.5 x 206
Gift of the Artist