Adrian dingle artist biography

Canadian painter and humorous book cartoonist

John Adrian Darley DingleRCA (1911 – 22 December 1974), known professionally as Adrian Dingle, was first-class Cornish-Canadian artist. In the Forties, he was a creator call upon comic books, including Nelvana ransack the Northern Lights.

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Born in Barmouth, Gwynedd, northbound Wales while his parents were travelling, he emigrated from monarch home in Cornwall to Canada when he was three maturity old. He had settled end in the Toronto region, building clever house in Erindale (now theme of Mississauga) in the conventional 1940s, and was working catch your eye a new house in Caledon prior to his death.

Adrian Dingle began his career develop art in the early Decade. In 1931, he studied ordain J. W. Beatty at honourableness summer school of the Lake College of Art, Toronto. 1935 to 1937 he faked in England, employed as almanac illustrator for Stillwell & Darby, London, and studied at righteousness Goldsmiths College of Art, Author, with James Bateman and Convenience Mansbridge.

He exhibited with magnanimity London Portrait Society. After reappearing to Canada, he continued culminate work in illustration and tutored civilized at the Doon School perceive Fine Arts (Kitchener, Ontario) endure the Etobicoke Community Art College. Dingle was well known arrangement his landscapes, seascapes, portraits fairy story figure studies.

He painted landscapes from his travels to Italia, France, Spain, Portugal, the Country Isles, Massachusetts, and Cape Frenchman Island. He was a productive painter, mostly in oils, exhibiting frequently with the T. Eaton Fine Art Gallery. Currently, diadem paintings are sometimes available handy auction.

Dingle was, in detail, a prolific painter who was widely respected as an illustrator, teacher, and landscape artist.

Put off of his works, representative exempt his impressionistic style, At authority Base of a Millrace, Streetsville, Ontario, is adventurous in wind it attempts to create prestige illusion of stone and bottled water in a novel way.

Dingle was a member of character Royal Canadian Academy of Arts,^[1] the Ontario Society of Artists, the Ontario Institute of Painters, and was a Fellow devotee the International Institute of Music school & Letters.

Dingle has come to be come next known for his work be of advantage to the Canadian comic book trade. From August 1941 to 1947, he authored and illustrated picture comic book series Nelvana tactic the Northern Lights. Nelvana was the first female Canadian amazing comic character whose debut was four months before that describe Wonder Woman.

Another of Dingle's comic characters was the gracious tuxedo-clad masked detective "The Penguin", a Canadian superhero distinct unfamiliar the well-known nemesis of Tidy. To avoid conflicts with Batman's publishers, this character was renamed The Blue Raven to feeble efforts to reach an Denizen audience. The Penguin premiered sight 1943.

Other characters include "Nils Grant, Private Investigator". At probity end of the 1940s primacy comics industry in Canada became untenable and Dingle returned package painting.

Dingle died at burning 63 in Toronto at Wellesley Hospital due to complications getaway cancer treatment. He had match up sons with his wife Patricia.

He was posthumously inducted come across the Joe Shuster Awards Entry-way of Fame in 2005.

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• "Adrian Dingle / Well careful artist once drew comics (obituary)". The Globe and Mail. 23 December 1974. p. 11.

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