German 1925-2003

Chocolate Box Machine Gun 1973
Oil on canvas
84 x 84
Gift of the Estate of Michael C. Williams

Gift of the Estate of Michael C. WilliamsGlenn Howarth entered the Visual Arts program at the University of Victoria in the mid 1960s when it was still an offshoot of the Faculty of Education. As a member of one of the first cohorts to graduate from the program in 1970, Howarth’s teachers included Pat Martin Bates, John Dobereiner and Donald Harvey. It was during this formative period that Howarth began to experiment with painting on circular shaped canvases. He became known for removing the corners of paintings, which led to a new relationship with perspective. He dedicated himself to art and teaching as a profession in the early 1970s and remained a fixture in the local art scene for the next four decades. He taught at the University of Victoria and the Victoria College of Art and had a studio for many years in Fan Tan Alley.