Arthur Heming. Arthur Henry Howard Heming was a Canadian painter and novelist known as the chronicler of the North for his paintings, sketches, essays and books about Canada's North.
Born in Paris, Ontario and raised in Hamilton, he studied at the Hamilton Art School, then in New York City at the Art Students League with Frank DuMond, and the Old Lyme Art Colony, and in London with the Welsh master Frank Brangwyn. Heming was diagnosed as colour blind and as a result worked mostly in black and white for almost all of his life, with the addition of yellow.
However, near the end of his career, he started to paint using the full range of colours, having been told by a fellow artist he was no longer colour blind. He was an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
A 124-page exhibition catalogue was produced by Museum London in 2013, with five essays, Arthur Heming: Chronicler of the North. It followed a 2012 gallery retrospective of his work, shown at Museum London.
His highly popular novels were only three in number, but they enjoyed great success in serial form and then in fine book editions from major publishers. His novels were not armchair concoctions, as Heming had travelled extensively in the wilderness. Among his northern journeys; he accompanied noted gentleman adventurer Caspar Whitney to the Barrengrounds, patrolled with the Royal North West Mounted Police in the mountain
Born in Paris, Ontario and raised in Hamilton, he studied at the Hamilton Art School, then in New York City at the Art Students League with Frank DuMond, and the Old Lyme Art Colony, and in London with the Welsh master Frank Brangwyn. Heming was diagnosed as colour blind and as a result worked mostly in black and white for almost all of his life, with the addition of yellow.
However, near the end of his career, he started to paint using the full range of colours, having been told by a fellow artist he was no longer colour blind. He was an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
A 124-page exhibition catalogue was produced by Museum London in 2013, with five essays, Arthur Heming: Chronicler of the North. It followed a 2012 gallery retrospective of his work, shown at Museum London.
His highly popular novels were only three in number, but they enjoyed great success in serial form and then in fine book editions from major publishers. His novels were not armchair concoctions, as Heming had travelled extensively in the wilderness. Among his northern journeys; he accompanied noted gentleman adventurer Caspar Whitney to the Barrengrounds, patrolled with the Royal North West Mounted Police in the mountain
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