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A collection of Banting's paintings was acquired by and donated to the Owens Art Gallery at Mount Allison University in 1928. Jackson and Banting also made painting expeditions to Great Slave Lake , Walsh Lake ( Northwest Territories ), Georgian Bay , French River and the Sudbury District .
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Discover all artworks by Frederick Grant Banting (Canadian, 1891 - 1941) on MutualArt along with auctions, exhibitions and articles featuring the artist.
At the time of his death in 1941, Banting was one of Canada's best-known amateur painters. It was reported that Banting's death in a plane crash hit Jackson just as hard as the death of another good friend and sketching partner, Tom Thomson, a quarter of a century earlier. Read More. Artist Origin. Canadian.
Oct 5, 2010 · Responses. Metrics. PDF. Science and art were Sir Frederick Grant Banting’s (1891–1941) “undiscover’d country” 1 that he determinedly explored throughout his life. Known to the world as the co-discoverer of insulin and co-recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Banting’s diligent observational skills as well as his penchant ...
- J. Lynn Fraser
- 2010
Banting’s artistic career, although lesser known, is equally notable, and he produced paintings, drawings in pencil, charcoal and ink as well as serigraphs. He was painting as early as 1920, and exhibited his first oil sketches at the Hart House Sketch Club in 1925.
In 2 decades, Fred produced hundreds of sketches and oil paintings. The exact number is not known but an exhibit of his work held at Hart House, University of Toronto, in 1943, included 241 items; mostly paintings on birch panels (8.5” x 10.5”) but some larger works on canvas (21” x 36”).
