# Kenneth Lochhead > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kenneth_Lochhead > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kenneth_Lochhead.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Lochhead > Source revision: 1343071596 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Canadian professor and painter}} {{Infobox artist | name = Kenneth Lochhead | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Kenneth Campbell Lochhead | birth_date = {{birth date|1926|5|22}} | birth_place = [Ottawa](/source/Ottawa), [Ontario](/source/Ontario), Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|2006|7|15|1926|5|22}} | death_place = Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | nationality = | spouse = | field = | training = | movement = [Regina Five](/source/Regina_Five) | works = | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = [Order of Canada](/source/Order_of_Canada) | elected = | website = | bgcolour = }} '''Kenneth Campbell Lochhead''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|RCA|size=100%}} L.L. D. (May 22, 1926 – July 15, 2006) was a professor and painter. He was the brother of poet [Douglas Lochhead](/source/Douglas_Lochhead). ==Career== Born in [Ottawa](/source/Ottawa), [Ontario](/source/Ontario), Lochhead attended the Summer Art School at [Queen's University](/source/Queen's_University_at_Kingston) in 1944. From 1945 to 1948, he attended the [Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts](/source/Pennsylvania_Academy_of_the_Fine_Arts) in [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia). From 1946 to 1948, he studied at the [Barnes Foundation](/source/Barnes_Foundation) near Philadelphia. From 1950 to 1964, he was the director of the School of Art at the [University of Saskatchewan](/source/University_of_Saskatchewan) — Regina Campus. Among his pupils there was [Joan Rankin](/source/Joan_Rankin).{{cite book|author1=Jules Heller|author2=Nancy G. Heller|title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|date=19 December 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-63882-5}} His art work in this early period was [Surrealist](/source/Surrealist) as well as abstract (he bounced between the two). He was commissioned to do two murals in his surrealist mode, one for the airport in Gander, Newfoundland, one for the [Royal Canadian Legion](/source/Royal_Canadian_Legion) branch in Regina (1955–1956), a "major artistic achievement".{{cite book |last1=Norbraten |first1=Erik |title="The Royal Canadian Legion". Regina's Secret Spaces:Love and Lore of Local Geography |date=2006 |publisher=U of Regina Press |location=Regina |isbn=978-0-88977-200-7|url=https://uofrpress.ca/Books/R/Regina-s-Secret-Spaces |access-date=11 April 2024}} Lochhead was the co-founder with McKay of the [Emma Lake Artists' Workshops](/source/Emma_Lake_Artists'_Workshops) in 1955 and attended the 1959 visit of [Barnett Newman](/source/Barnett_Newman), followed by a reappraisal of his art. In 1961, he exhibited his abstract paintings as part of the ''[Regina Five](/source/Regina_Five)'' at the [National Gallery of Canada](/source/National_Gallery_of_Canada) with [Art McKay](/source/Art_McKay), [Ron Bloore](/source/Ron_Bloore), [Ted Godwin](/source/Ted_Godwin), and [Douglas Morton](/source/Doug_Morton_(artist)). Along with McKay, he was included in [Clement Greenberg](/source/Clement_Greenberg)'s 1964 ''[Post-Painterly Abstraction](/source/Post-Painterly_Abstraction)'' exhibition. By 1968, Lochhead was painting abstract work that let the painting "breathe" by leaving margins of unpainted canvas between the colours.{{cite web |last1=Young |first1=H. Dennis |title=49th Parallels: New Canadian Art, catalogue essay, 1971 |url=http://www.dennis-young.ca/FortyNinth.html |website=www.dennis-young.ca |publisher=Dennis Young |access-date=30 May 2024}} From 1964 to 1973, he was an associate professor in the School of Fine Arts at the [University of Manitoba](/source/University_of_Manitoba). From 1973 to 1975, he was a professor in the Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts at [York University](/source/York_University). From 1975 to 1989, he was a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the [University of Ottawa](/source/University_of_Ottawa). In 1970, he was made an Officer of the [Order of Canada](/source/Order_of_Canada) "for his contribution to the development of painting, especially in Western Canada, as an artist and teacher".[http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=1023 Order of Canada Website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311134027/http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=1023 |date=2007-03-11 }} Retrieved August 2, 2006 In 2006, he was awarded the [Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts](/source/Governor_General's_Awards_in_Visual_and_Media_Arts). He was made a member of the [Royal Canadian Academy of Arts](/source/Royal_Canadian_Academy_of_Arts){{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 }} In 2005, Ted Fraser curated the exhibition titled ''Kenneth Lochhead: Garden of Light'' for the [MacKenzie Art Gallery](/source/MacKenzie_Art_Gallery) in Regina.{{cite web |title=Contributors |url=https://e-artexte.ca/view/contributors/Fraser=3ATed=3A=3A.html|publisher=e-artexte |access-date=24 April 2023}} Lochhead died of [colorectal cancer](/source/colorectal_cancer) in Ottawa in 2006. ==Books illustrated== *''Looking into Trees'' (Sackville NB: [Sybertooth](/source/Sybertooth), 2009) {{ISBN|978-0-9810244-3-1}} ==Honours and memberships == * Officer of the Order of Canada; * Honorary Doctor of Laws, [University of Regina](/source/University_of_Regina) with the other members of the [Regina Five](/source/Regina_Five) (2001);{{cite web |title=Recipients |url=https://www.uregina.ca/president/assets/docs/honorary-degree/zhdr-recipients-chrono.pdf |website=www.uregina.ca |publisher=U Regina |access-date=13 January 2024 |archive-date=12 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240112220047/https://www.uregina.ca/president/assets/docs/honorary-degree/zhdr-recipients-chrono.pdf |url-status=dead }} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * {{cite encyclopedia |last=Zepp |first=Norman |title=Kenneth Campbell Lochhead |encyclopedia=[The Canadian Encyclopedia](/source/The_Canadian_Encyclopedia) |date=4 March 2015 |publisher=[Historica Canada](/source/Historica_Canada) |edition=online |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/kenneth-campbell-lochhead}} * [http://www.kennethlochhead.com Kenneth Lochhead's official website] * University of Regina Archives and Special Collections. Ken Lochhead Fonds. https://www.uregina.ca/library/services/archives/collections/art-architecture/lockhhead.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410134816/https://www.uregina.ca/library/services/archives/collections/art-architecture/lockhhead.html |date=2018-04-10 }} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lochhead, Kenneth}} Category:1926 births Category:2006 deaths Category:Deaths from colorectal cancer in Ontario Category:20th-century Canadian painters Category:Canadian male painters Category:21st-century Canadian painters Category:Officers of the Order of Canada Category:Artists from Ottawa Category:Painters from Ontario Category:Academic staff of the University of Manitoba Category:Academic staff of the University of Ottawa Category:Academic staff of the University of Saskatchewan Category:Academic staff of York University Category:Artists from Saskatchewan Category:Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Category:Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts winners Category:20th-century Canadian male artists Category:21st-century Canadian male artists Category:Canadian abstract artists Category:Canadian muralists --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Kenneth Lochhead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Lochhead) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Lochhead?action=history)). 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