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Page 10 SECTION A THE HERALD Wednesday I ISM A lifetime of dedication and creativity Continued from page AS School well as Toronto art lovers Mr Black and Mr collaborated on brief for each work Ihe artist anecdotes and recot lections about their origins and Inspirations The commentaries will be dis played adjacent to the works In the gallery ON DISPLAY In addition a small sou catalogue has been printed at the artist ex pease In an edition of Again with the artists help Mr Sommer has compiled a series of photo graphs some of which are reproduced here crcial designs newspaper clippings sketches and other memorabilia to complement the show Visitors to downtown Georgetown will have re cently noticed Mr Blacks paintings on display in some store windows Mr considers the displays an extension of the show itself and Invites gallery visitors to stroll down Main Street during the six week exhibition to take In an additional dozen works by the artist Mr Black himself health permitting plans to greet gallery visitors at the opening tomorrow night well as each Saturday during the show between a m and noon His willingness to meet members of the public and discuss his work Indicative of his unyielding devotion lo the community in which he had coached members or the Palette and Pencil Club Instructed local high school students and taken a fervent Interest In Georgetown arts events and achievements Born to an English boat building family Dec IB 1894 Frank Charles Black spent an important part of his youth In Bermuda where his naval engineer father was transferred when Frank was seven years old The boy took an early interest In drawing and a favorite subject was the sea that surrounded him To this day he loves paint seascapes and there Is stilt evidence in his Street home studio of his childhood penchant for his own form of boatbuilding creating models rather than tho real ships his forebears constructed TO TORONTO In 1911 his mother brought her children to Toronto and young Frank became an apprentice with the Hough Company soon moving on to the art department at McLean publishing By the fall of he was in the trenches of wartorn France fighting alongside fellow members of Highlanders until a serious wound at Vlmy Ridge hospitalized him early In thermal year of the First World War For Mr Black spent the next two years In hospitals In England and Toronto finally returning to his old Job at McLean where he continued to work for the next ten College of Art and with New York City Art Stud League and a teach lob at Danforth Tech School preceded Mr Blacks marriage to Lill ian Spears In 1930 the same year he became a commercial artist with the engraving house Batten Ltd Having renewed with his child hood home of Bermuda on his honeymoon Mr Black returned there with Lillian In and stayed a full year Their return to Tor onto saw him freelance In commercial art submltt the Toronto Star among other clients In 1936 Mr Black spent tho summer on the Mass coastline study under Ernie Gruppc at that time the foremost painter of harbor scenes and ships Renowned marine painter Stanley Woodward helped him continue to develop his combined love for the sea and for painting and in 1938 Mr Black accepted a design job with a Bermuda newspaper work which kepthlmandLiUlanontho island another four years From his return to Tor onto until his retirement In 19S5 Mr Black freelanced to Georgetown the evening art classes In Palette and Pencil some more mostly with artist commuting by train Acton Georgetown and He continues lo point and Bryant Press It was In to his Job Upon his retire- Brampton and with instruct club members to Mr Black teaching students founded the this doy 1952 when the Blacks mov It was the spring of 1918 and Frank Black second from led in back row an Illustrator for McLeans publishing Id Toronto was ready for battle alongside fellow members of the Highlanders shown awaiting shipping orders at Niagara Mr Black was wounded twice during the First World War the second lime severely enough to keep him hospitalised lor two years Almost years later Mr Black and his wife Lillian would move from Toronto to Georgetown the local scenery his painters eye where be Would become the communitys most respected artist A remarkable sequence of photographs taken this year tells a great deal about painter Frank Black seen here to the front room of bis Street home his wife Lillian purchased for them in 1952 In tbe photo at far left clutter typical of still active surrounds finished portrait of the artist as a young man painted by friend of Mr Blacks in Mr Black at work here on a classic landscape using ihe palette knife a favorite utensil to spread thick layers or paint and create a separate tenure within the canvas Its a method he popularised among members of Georgetown Palette and Pencil Clob which be frequently coaches DESIGNER JEANS at FACTORY DISCOUNTS ROADRUNNER jeans tit Sergio Valente DCOne Angel Wings Imajean Road Runner La Grille Gino Verdi 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