David Lloyd Blackwood
David Lloyd Blackwood
1941 - 2022
CPE CSGA CSPWC OSA RCA
David Blackwood was born in 1941 in the outport community of Wesleyville, Newfoundland to a seafaring family in which his father and grandfather were both ship captains. Fishing was a way of life in Newfoundland and Blackwood's choice to become an artist was an unusual one in his small town. However, the community was very supportive of him; one of his elementary school teachers purchased a small paint set for the young Blackwood and told him "don't give up your painting!"

Blackwood studied at the Ontario College of Art from 1959 to 1963, and his teachers included J.W.G. Macdonald and Carl Schaefer. It was here that he learned the print-making techniques and processes he has used throughout his career. It was also here that he decided to make art about his heritage - the stories of Newfoundland. His chronicles of the sea, the land, and the life of the people there, expressed through his etchings and paintings, are extraordinary. At 23 years old one of his etchings was purchased by the National Gallery of Canada. In 2000, 36 years later, the Art Gallery of Ontario created the Blackwood Research Centre and acquired a major collection of his prints. Also an educator, he taught at Trinity College School from 1963 to 1988.

Blackwood has had over 90 solo exhibitions, including a major retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2011: Black Ice: David Blackwood, Prints of Newfoundland. His work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada and the Vancouver Art Gallery, as well as in major private and public collections around the world, including the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle) and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. In 1976, the National Film Board produced a documentary film on him, which was nominated for an Academy Award.

Blackwood received the Order of Canada in 1993, and in 2003 was named Honorary Chairman of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the first practicing artist to be so honoured. Blackwood currently resides in Port Hope, Ontario, as well as maintaining a studio in Wesleyville.
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David Lloyd Blackwood
"The Flora S. Nickerson" (with Barked Sails) Outward Bound for the Labrador
45 x 60 in, 114.3 x 152.4 cm
oil tempera on board
Estimate: $60,000 - $80,000 CDN
Sold for: $177,000 CDN (premium included)
Fall 2016 - 1st Session on Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Fire Down on the Labrador by David Lloyd Blackwood sold for $133,250
David Lloyd Blackwood
Fire Down on the Labrador
31 1/2 x 19 3/4 in, 80 x 50.2 cm
etching and aquatint on paper
Estimate: $60,000 - $80,000 CDN
Sold for: $133,250 CDN (premium included)
Post-War & Contemporary Art on Thursday, May 23, 2024
Fire Down on the Labrador by David Lloyd Blackwood sold for $133,250
David Lloyd Blackwood
Fire Down on the Labrador
31 1/2 x 19 3/4 in, 80 x 50.2 cm
etching and aquatint on paper
Estimate: $60,000 - $80,000 CDN
Sold for: $133,250 CDN (premium included)
Post-War & Contemporary Art on Thursday, May 22, 2025
Ephraim Kelloway's September Door '59 by David Lloyd Blackwood sold for $109,250
David Lloyd Blackwood
Ephraim Kelloway's September Door '59
70 x 48 in, 177.8 x 121.9 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $90,000 - $120,000 CDN
Sold for: $109,250 CDN (premium included)
Fall 2017 - 1st Session on Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Ephraim Kelloway's June Door by David Lloyd Blackwood sold for $106,200
David Lloyd Blackwood
Ephraim Kelloway's June Door
48 x 32 in, 121.9 x 81.3 cm
oil on board
Estimate: $50,000 - $70,000 CDN
Sold for: $106,200 CDN (premium included)
Spring 2014 - 1st Session on Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Ephraim Kelloway's White Door by David Lloyd Blackwood sold for $105,300
David Lloyd Blackwood
Ephraim Kelloway's White Door
70 x 48 in, 177.8 x 121.9 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000 CDN
Sold for: $105,300 CDN (premium included)
Fall 2013 - 1st Session on Thursday, November 28, 2013
Barbours Neptune II Leaving Newtown by David Lloyd Blackwood sold for $91,250
David Lloyd Blackwood
Barbours Neptune II Leaving Newtown
50 x 60 in, 127 x 152.4 cm
oil tempera on canvas
Estimate: $80,000 - $100,000 CDN
Sold for: $91,250 CDN (premium included)
Spring 2017 - 1st Session on Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Fire Down on the Labrador by David Lloyd Blackwood sold for $85,250
David Lloyd Blackwood
Fire Down on the Labrador
31 1/2 x 19 3/4 in, 80 x 50.2 cm
etching and aquatint on paper
Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000 CDN
Sold for: $85,250 CDN (premium included)
David Blackwood on Thursday, November 26, 2020
Fire Down on the Labrador by David Lloyd Blackwood sold for $79,250
David Lloyd Blackwood
Fire Down on the Labrador
31 1/2 x 19 3/4 in, 80 x 50.2 cm
etching and aquatint on paper
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000 CDN
Sold for: $79,250 CDN (premium included)
Works by David Blackwood on Thursday, February 28, 2019
Ephraim Kelloway’s Door, Black by David Lloyd Blackwood sold for $79,250
David Lloyd Blackwood
Ephraim Kelloway’s Door, Black
70 x 48 in, 177.8 x 121.9 cm
oil on board
Estimate: $60,000 - $80,000 CDN
Sold for: $79,250 CDN (premium included)
Post-War & Contemporary Art on Wednesday, November 20, 2024