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Bates suffered a [[stroke]] in 1961. In 1962 he moved from Calgary to [[Victoria, British Columbia]]. He suffered a second stroke in 1978 and died in Victoria in 1980.
Bates suffered a [[stroke]] in 1961. In 1962 he moved from Calgary to [[Victoria, British Columbia]]. He suffered a second stroke in 1978 and died in Victoria in 1980.


His work has been showcased at art galleries worldwide and [[retrospective]] exhibitions have been shown in galleries such as the [[Winnipeg Art Gallery]] and the [[Vancouver Art Gallery]]. He was an associate member of the [[Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]] and a member of the C.S.P.W.C. (1951); C.S.G.A. (1947); the Alberta Society of Artists; the B.C. Society of Artists; F.C.A. (1947); the C.G.P.; and the Calgary Arts Club.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bradfield|first=Helen Pepall|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/118037|title=Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|isbn=0-07-092504-6|location=Toronto| oclc=118037}}</ref> In Victoria, B.C. he was a member of the Limners.<ref>{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://www.timescolonist.com/archive/victorias-limners-artists-reunite-for-group-show-at-winchester-galleries-4601076 |website=/www.timescolonist.com |publisher=Times Colonist |access-date=14 October 2023}}</ref> In 1971, he received an [[honorary degree|honorary doctorate]] from the [[University of Calgary]]. In 1980 he was made a Member of the [[Order of Canada]].
His work has been showcased at art galleries worldwide and [[retrospective]] exhibitions have been shown in galleries such as the [[Winnipeg Art Gallery]] and the [[Vancouver Art Gallery]]. He was an associate member of the [[Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]] and a member of the C.S.P.W.C. (1951); C.S.G.A. (1947); the Alberta Society of Artists; the B.C. Society of Artists; F.C.A. (1947); the C.G.P.; and the Calgary Arts Club.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bradfield|first=Helen Pepall|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/118037|title=Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|isbn=0-07-092504-6|location=Toronto| oclc=118037}}</ref> In Victoria, B.C. he was a member of the Limners, a group formed in 1971.<ref>{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://www.timescolonist.com/archive/victorias-limners-artists-reunite-for-group-show-at-winchester-galleries-4601076 |website=/www.timescolonist.com |publisher=Times Colonist |access-date=14 October 2023}}</ref> In 1971, he received an [[honorary degree|honorary doctorate]] from the [[University of Calgary]]. In 1980 he was made a Member of the [[Order of Canada]].


== Honours ==
== Honours ==

Revision as of 16:40, 14 October 2023

Maxwell Bates
Born
Maxwell Bennett Bates

14 December 1906
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Died4 September 1980(1980-09-04) (aged 73)
Victoria, British Columbia
Alma materProvincial Institute of Technology and Art in Calgary
OccupationArchitect
Spouse(s)May Watson (m. 1949), died in 1952; Charlotte Kintzle (m. 1954)
AwardsCM
BuildingsSt. Mary's Cathedral

Maxwell Bates CM RCA LL.D (14 December 1906 – 14 September 1980) was an architect and expressionist painter.

Biography

Born in Calgary, Alberta in 1906, Bates started painting at an early age; his piece In the Kitchen was painted when he was 15 years old. As a young adult, he worked for his father's architecture firm. His father, William Stanley Bates, was himself a prominent architect in early Calgary who designed the Burns Building (1912) and the Grain Exchange (1909).

Bates studied with Lars Jonson Haukaness at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art in Calgary from 1926–1927.[1] In 1931 Bates moved to England, where he supported himself as a door-to-door vacuum salesman while exhibiting his art work at the Wertheim Gallery. In England he associated with promising young artists such as Barbara Hepworth and Victor Pasmore.

St Mary's Cathedral in Calgary was designed by Maxwell Bates.

As a member of the British Territorial Army in 1940, Bates was captured in France and became a prisoner of war in Thuringia. He remained a POW until 1945. This experience was captured in his 1978 book A Wilderness of Days.

Bates returned to Calgary in 1946 to work with his father's architectural firm again. His first wife May Watson, whom he married in 1949, died in 1952. He then married Charlotte Kintzle in 1954.

In 1949 Bates studied at the Brooklyn Museum with artist Max Beckmann and Abraham Rattner. As an architect, his most notable work was St. Mary's Cathedral, which was consecrated in 1957.

Bates suffered a stroke in 1961. In 1962 he moved from Calgary to Victoria, British Columbia. He suffered a second stroke in 1978 and died in Victoria in 1980.

His work has been showcased at art galleries worldwide and retrospective exhibitions have been shown in galleries such as the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery. He was an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and a member of the C.S.P.W.C. (1951); C.S.G.A. (1947); the Alberta Society of Artists; the B.C. Society of Artists; F.C.A. (1947); the C.G.P.; and the Calgary Arts Club.[2] In Victoria, B.C. he was a member of the Limners, a group formed in 1971.[3] In 1971, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Calgary. In 1980 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.

Honours

References

  1. ^ Maxwell Bennett Bates (Elliott Louis Gallery)
  2. ^ Bradfield, Helen Pepall (1970). Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection. Toronto: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-092504-6. OCLC 118037.
  3. ^ "Exhibitions". /www.timescolonist.com. Times Colonist. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  4. ^ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
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