{{Short description|Canadian artist (1912–1998)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Cleeve Horne | image =Cleeve Horne with portrait of George A. Reid (I0010399).tif | caption =Cleeve Horne with portrait of George A. Reid | birth_name = Arthur Edward Cleeve Horne | birth_date = {{birth date|1912|1|9}} | birth_place = Jamaica, British West Indies | death_date = {{death-date and age|5 July 1998|9 January 1912}} | death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | known_for = Painting, sculpture | spouse = {{marriage|Jean Mildred Harris|1939}} | training = {{ubl|Dorothy Dick (1927-1928)|Ontario College of Art}} | movement = | notable_works = | patrons = | awards = {{ubl|Order of Ontario (1987)|Order of Canada(1997)|Honorary academician of The Canadian Portrait Academy (2000)}} }}
'''Arthur Edward Cleeve Horne''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|O.Ont|RCA|size=100%}}, (January 9, 1912 – July 5, 1998) was a Canadian portrait painter and sculptor.
==Career== Born in Jamaica, British West Indies, Horne came to Canada with his parents in 1913.<ref name="macDonald " >A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada</ref> When he was around nine years of age, recovering from pneumonia, his mother gave him modelling clay to pass the time. He did a head of Shakespeare which won a prize at the Canadian National Exhibition. By age 15, he was exhibiting with the Royal Canadian Academy.<ref name="macDonald " />
In Horne's early career, he wanted to become a portrait sculptor and studied under Dorothy Dick, a British sculptor (1927–1928).<ref name="who's who " >"Cleeve Horne". Who's Who in Canada. (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1997).</ref> From 1931 to 1934, he attended the Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, first studying sculpture under Emanuel Hahn but soon changing to painting with J. W. Beatty.<ref name="who's who " /> He also studied portrait and landscape painting under John Wentworth Russell (1934–1935).<ref name="macDonald " /> He was told by Emanuel Hahn, "A sculptor can never change his hand and become a painter." Horne, however, achieved much more acclaim as a painter than a sculptor.
Horne was primarily a society painter. He is thought to have painted over 400 portraits during his career ca.(1928–1991). His most notable subjects include Alexander Graham Bell, Claude Bissell, Bora Laskin, Pauline Mills McGibbon, Jeanne Sauvé, Colonel R. Samuel McLaughlin, and John Diefenbaker, among many others.<ref name="fonds " >{{cite web |title=Cleeve Horne fonds |url=http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/PROV/PROV/REFD+F+2154?SESSIONSEARCH#about |website=ao.minisisinc.com |publisher=Ontario Ministry of Government and Consumer Services |access-date=2021-10-17}}</ref> He held his first exhibition in 1935, his second in 1937, and served as a camouflage officer in the army in the Second World War and retired with the rank of Captain.<ref name="macDonald " /><ref name="who's who " /> Cleeve Horne died at Toronto, Ontario, Canada of a respiratory-related illness in 1998.
==Commissions== * Alexander Graham Bell, Brantford, Ont., 1948;<ref name="who's who " /> * Wm Shakespeare, Stratford, Ont., 1950;<ref name="who's who " /> * War Memorial, Law Society Upper Canada, Osgoode Hall, Toronto, 1951;<ref name="who's who " /> * bas-relief on Bank of Canada Building (Toronto), 1958.<ref name="who's who " />
==Awards and honours== * 1934 Awarded the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Painting at the Ontario College of Art (first recipient)<ref name="macDonald " /> * 1963 Awarded the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's Allied Arts Medal<ref name="who's who " /> * 1965 Awarded the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Medal<ref name="who's who " /> * 1967 Awarded the Canadian Centennial Medal<ref name="who's who " /> * 1977 Awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal<ref name="who's who " /> * 1982 Awarded the Ontario Society of Artists Award<ref name="who's who " /> * 1992 Awarded the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal<ref name="who's who " /> * 1984 Appointment as "fellow", Ontario College of Art & Design<ref name="macDonald " /> * 1987 Appointment to the Order of Ontario<ref name="who's who " /> * 1996 Appointment as officer of the Order of Canada<ref>{{cite web |title=Cleeve Horne |url=https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-5257 |website=www.gg.ca |publisher=Governor General of Canada |access-date=2021-10-16}}</ref> * 1999 Named "One of the Top 100 Portrait Artists of the 20th Century" by the Canadian Portrait Academy
==Professional affiliations== Horne was a member of the Ontario Society of Artists and held the position of President from 1949-1951. He was also a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts,<ref name=RCA1880 >{{cite web|title=Members since 1880 |url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |accessdate=11 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526215339/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |archivedate=26 May 2011 }}</ref> Sculptors Society of Canada, the Canadian Portrait Academy and an Associate of the Ontario College of Art (AOCA).<ref name="macDonald " />
==Works== <gallery> File:Bell Statue in front of the Brantford Bell Telephone Building 0.98.jpg|Cleeve Horne's sculpture of Alexander Graham Bell in front of the Brantford Bell Telephone Building File:Bell Statue in front of the Brantford Bell Telephone Building, set-back view.jpg|Cleeve Horne's sculpture of Alexander Graham Bell in front of the Brantford Bell Telephone Building </gallery>
==Personal life== Horne lived the majority of his life in Toronto. At the Ontario College of Art he met Jean Harris, a sculpture student; they married in 1939 and had three sons.<ref name="macDonald " /> The Hornes owned two houses that were both designed by prominent architectural firms.<ref name="fonds " /> One was a permanent residence at 181 Balmoral Avenue in Toronto, built in 1952 and designed by Gordon Adamson. The other was a summer home at 1950 Concession 8 in Pickering, Ontario. The summer home was built in 1957 and designed by architects Michael Clifford and Kenneth Lawrie, and features a hyperbolic paraboloid roof.
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==External links== * [http://www.cleevehorne.com Official website]
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