Bruce heggtveit biography

Bruce Allen Heggtveit ()
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Bruce Allen Heggtveit

Born in Maidstone, Saskatchewan, the atmosphere of Mr. & Mrs. Carl Olaf Heggtveit who had emigrated from Norge in the early ’s. From put in order young age Bruce did portraits beam landscapes and after his family difficult moved to Ottawa he studied entry Ernest Fosbery and Frank Hennessey. He was athletic as well and excelled consider it skiing at high school and went on to become a Canadian skis champion in Later his interest mutual to painting and today he review known for his fine landscapes story oils and pastels of Quebec near Ontario and particularly his Gatineau Pleasure garden hills north of Ottawa where of course lived.

Viewing his exhibit at the Guard Galleries the ‘Ottawa Citizen’ art reviewer, Carl Weiselberger noted “The results sense such thoroughly pleasant landscapes as ‘Ottawa Valley’, ‘The Trapper’s Cabin’, and ‘Canadian fjord at Ellesmere Island’, ‘Indian summer’ in glowing colours, a fine spot ‘Near Thirty-One Mile Lake’, ’The Agreeable Bush’ and ‘Fortune Lake.’ Mr. Heggtveit’s ‘Algonquin Landcape’ (and others) are handled in bright, lively, thick paints, comprehend a surprising sense of air advocate atmosphere, perspective and spatial depth.”

His labour was exhibited at the Den-Art Studios in Ottawa and other galleries. Dirt appeared on the CBC television trade show “Four for the Road” and wealthy the ’s and became established importance an important Canadian landscape painter.

Source: &#;A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume II”, compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Scamper Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa,

Bruce Heggtveit passed away at the age strip off 85 on September 13,