Collection: Frederick Stanley Haines

(1879 – 1960) RCA, CPE, CSPWC, OSA, SGA 

Born in Meaford, Ontario, Haines studied at the Central Ontario School of Art in Toronto under George Agnew Reid and William Cruikshank (1896); and at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Antwerp, Belgium under Juliaan de Vriendt (1913). Working mostly in oil, although he also used pencil, sepia, gouache, tempera and watercolour, he painted the Ontario landscape especially farm scenes with animals and trees. He also painted the mountains of British Columbia, the Eastern Townships of Quebec, and in Vermont. In 1919, he began working with prints including woodblocks, colour aquatints, etchings and lithographs. He signed his work with monograms. Haines worked as a curator at the AGO (1927 to 1932) and was the Principal at the OCA (1932 to 1951). He was also the President of the OSA from 1924 to 1925 and RCA from 1939 to 1942. The father of Dorothy Hoover, he died in Thornhill, Ontario. He exhibited extensively with the RCA between 1905 – 1960, the AAM in 1908, 1927 and 1940, and had a memorial exhibit at the AGO in 1961. His work is in the collections of the AGO, LAG, ad NGC.