{{Short description|Canadian artist, writer and professor}} '''Robert Linsley''' (1952 – February 2, 2017) was a Canadian artist, writer and professor known for his abstract paintings.<ref name="can art " >{{Cite web | url=https://canadianart.ca/features/robert-linsley/ |title = Robert Linsley: 1952–2017}}</ref> He died in Kitchener, Ontario where he had moved in 2002 to teach at the University of Waterloo.<ref name="can art " />
==Early life and education== Linsley was born in 1952 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://app.pch.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_bas-artist_detail_bas.app?rID=26101&fID=2&lang=en&qlang=en&pID=1&an=linsley&ps=50&sort=AM_ASC|title=Artists in Canada|first=Canadian Heritage|last=Government of Canada|website=app.pch.gc.ca}}</ref> He received a BFA degree in 1982 and a MFA degree in 1988 from the University of British Columbia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alumni.ubc.ca/event/ubc-dialogues-toronto-arts/|title=Should the Arts stand on its own two feet?|website=alumni UBC|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171120231306/https://www.alumni.ubc.ca/event/ubc-dialogues-toronto-arts/|archive-date=2017-11-20}}</ref>
==Career== His book ''Beyond Resemblance Abstract Art in the Age of Global Conceptualism'' was published in 2017 by Reaktion Books.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.therecord.com/whatson-story/7124463-remembering-robert-linsley/ | title=Remembering Robert Linsley| date=2017-02-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://momus.ca/self-implicated-search-reviewing-robert-linsleys-final-book/|title="A Self-Implicated Search": Reviewing Robert Linsley's Final Book|date=March 1, 2017|website=Momus}}</ref> Linsley's work is included in the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery,<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://frieze.com/article/thank-you-robert |title = Thank you, Robert| date=22 February 2017 }}</ref> the Edmonton Art Gallery<ref name="CBC"/> and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://belkin.pastperfectonline.com/archive/F941C1B3-1D18-4DAA-AD54-121423630262|title=11.0.0.47 - One Hundred Views of Mount Baker|website=belkin.pastperfectonline.com}}</ref>
Linsley died in a bicycle accident in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario in 2017.<ref name="CBC">{{Cite web | url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/cyclist-killed-robert-linsley-artist-1.3970130 | title=Kitchener artist Robert Linsley remembered after fatal bike crash | CBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/remembering-robert-linsley-painting-in-the-abstract-with-manytwists/article33984175/ |title = Remembering Robert Linsley: Working in the abstract with many twists}}</ref>
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