David Lloyd Blackwood
(1941 - 2022) OSA, RCA, Order of Canada
Previously Sold Works
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Lumsden, Newfoundland (Cabbage Field)
mixed media on paper
signed, titled and dated 1972 lower right
18.5 x 24.25 ins ( 47 x 61.6 cms ) ( sight )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Cape Spear
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1968 and numbered 13/25 in the lower margin
20 x 31.75 ins ( 50.8 x 80.6 cms ) ( plate size )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
The Flora Nickerson in the Labrador Sea
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1982 and numbered 1/50 in the lower margin
16 x 22.75 ins ( 40.6 x 57.8 cms ) ( plate size )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Boat Passing, Wesleyville
watercolour
signed and dated 1980 lower right
18.5 x 25.25 ins ( 47 x 64.1 cms )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
March Kite
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, dated and numbered 7/50 in the lower margin
15 x 35.5 ins ( 38.1 x 90.2 cms ) ( image )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
March Kite
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, numbered “8/10 Artist’s Proof Ed. 50” and dated 1986 in the lower margin
15 x 35.5 ins ( 38.1 x 90.2 cms ) ( plate size )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Sam Kelloway Dreams
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, numbered 2/50 and dated 1983 in the lower margin
10 x 19.5 ins ( 25.4 x 49.5 cms ) ( plate size )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Mrs. Captain B, Home in Wesleyville
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, numbered 49/50 and dated 1979 in the lower margin
27.75 x 21.5 ins ( 70.5 x 54.6 cms ) ( plate size )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Two Scouts from the S.S. Eagle
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1975 and inscribed “Artist’s Proof” in the lower margin
16.5 x 20.25 ins ( 41.9 x 51.4 cms ) ( sight )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Cape Spear, Newfoundland; David Blackwood
pair of signed posters
“Cape Spear”- signed, dated 1984 and inscribed “For Juan and Margaret” towards the lower edge (23.75 ins x 34.5 ins); “David Blackwood”- signed, dated 1991 and inscribed “For Juan and Margaret, Best Wishes” towards the lower edge (20.5 ins x 38.5 ins)
x ins ( 0 x 0 cms )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Lost Party
etching
signed, titled and dated 1963 in the lower margin
21 x 30.25 ins ( 53.3 x 76.8 cms ) ( sheet )
DAVID LLOYD BLACKWOOD
Molly Glover on Bragg’s Island
colour etching and aquatint
signed, titled, dated 1997 and numbered 6/75 in the lower margin
32 x 20 ins ( 81.3 x 50.8 cms ) ( plate size )
Consignments
We are currently seeking works by David Blackwood to be included in future consignment sales.
If you are interested in selling works by David Lloyd Blackwood or want to get our opinion of value click here for more information or submit your artwork for sale.
David Blackwood Biography
(1941 - 2022) OSA, RCA, Order of Canada
Born in Wesleyville, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland, one of the major sealing towns of that province, he is a descendant of a long line of master mariners. Blackwood was awarded a Government of Newfoundland Centennial scholarship to study at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto under Carl Schaefer, John Alfsen, H.W.G. MacDonald and Frederick Hagan. He went on to become Art Master at Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario. In 1969, Blackwood became the first artist-in-residence at Erindale College, University of Toronto, Mississauga.
David Blackwood uses his background on the East coast of Canada to create grande visual narratives reflecting both the landscape and culture of the province with an emphasis on combining the history, legends, and myths of settlement and developing culture of Newfoundland. He is best-known for his colour etchings with aquatint. His work was used to provide illustrations for Farley Mowat’s “Wake of the Great Sealers”, a collection of stories about the heroic Newfoundlanders who braved the icy seas of the treacherous North Atlantic in search of seals. Driven by hard times at home it was the only hope many of the men had of making money to feed their families. Men perished when their ships went down during wintry gales. Blackwood, a native of a sealing town himself, and a descendent of fishing skippers and sealing captains, provides Mowat’s stirring text with equally stirring and poetic figurative drawings and prints.
Blackwood was awarded the Order of Canada in 1993 in recognition of his work contributing to and preserving the cultural life and heritage of Canada through his artwork. At the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Blackwood Research Centre within the Morin Gelber Print and Drawing Centre was created after a major acquisition of the artists works in 2000. The museum also elected Blackwood as its honourary Chairman in 2003, the first practicing artist to hold this position. In the same year, he was awarded the Order of Ontario.
As one of Canada's most celebrated print-makers, David Blackwood's works are part of significant Canadian and international private and corporate collections including The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada.
Sources: "A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume I: A-F", compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1977
