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Approximately 8 feet by 3.5 feet. Oil on canvas.
On Occasion of the REMEMBRANCE DAY in CANADA and the VETERANS DAY in US.
Born and raised in Manchaster UK., and a long time resident of Toronto Canada, Howard is one of our favourite artists still working in the old-fashioned oil-on-canvas way.
This painting is a homage to his fellow citizens that gave their lives at the very beginning of the World War II as Hitler’s army tried to destroy the English forces by pushing them into the English Channel. Thousands of private boats and craft, crewed by ordinary folk set sail from England for the occupied French shores in hope of rescuing the soldiers that were stranded and under constant German fire.
Klenka, George, 1923 – 2007. Born Prague, Czech Republic.
George Klenka left Czechoslovakia in 1968 ahead of the Warsaw Pact tanks, spiriting his family out of the conflict and chaos of his birthplace and on to Canada. Settling in Toronto, he became an art teacher at the city’s George Brown College, where he ispired generations of students who attended the school during the latter part of the twentieth century. In addition to his work as a teacher, he continued to paint colourful abstracts that reflected all the optimism of his experience in post-war Europe, while retaining a hint of cynicism born of the socialist influences he absorbed growing up in his homeland.
Fugitive Glue has received permission from Klenka’s estate to feature some of the canvases he painted in Toronto between 1975 and 1980. The seven canvases shown here are part of a 19-piece series, done in Acrylic sized at 26” x 30” (66 cm x 76 cm).
