George Weber CPE
German/Canadian, 1907-2002 —- our gallery represents the Weber Estate
Red Deer River Near Morrin, Alberta, 1971, watercolour and ink on paper, 11.5 x 15 inches (29 x 38 cm), framed, $650.00 Cdn.
Along Sunwapta Valley, near Sunwapta Falls, 1953, watercolour on paper, 9.5 x 13.5 inches (23 x 38 cm), framed, $650.00 Cdn.
Elevators, Lethbridge, August 1961, watercolour on paper, 14 x 20 inches (35.5 x 51 cm), framed, $975.00 Cdn.
Coalmine, Lethbridge, Alberta, 1956, watercolour on paper, 11 x 15 inches (28 x 38 cm), framed, $750.00 Cdn.
Mameo Beach, 1950, watercolour on paper, 9 x 14 inches (23 x 35.5 cm), framed, $650.00 Cdn.
Near Whitemud Creek (Edmonton), 1954, watercolour on paper, 10 x 14 inches (25.5 x 35.5 cm), framed, $675.00 Cdn.
Chinese Market Gardens, Beverly (Edmonton), 1956, watercolour on paper, 10 x 14 inches (25.5 x 35.5 cm), framed, $675.00 Cdn.
On Zazucas Farm, Shandro, Alberta, 1969, watercolour on artist board, 14 x 20.5 inches (35.5 x 52 cm), framed, $975.00 Cdn.
Docks & Canneries, Summerland (BC), 1951, watercolour on paper, 6.5 x 10 inches (16.5 x 25.5 cm), framed, $475.00 Cdn.
Rattlesnake Point & Cosens Bay, Kalamalka Lake, Vernon, BC, May 1974, watercolour and ink on artist board, 14.5 x 21 inches (37 x 53 cm), framed, $1000.00 Cdn.
Beach Cabin, 1950, watercolour on paper, 8 x 10.5 inches (20 x 26.5 cm), sold.
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In 1976 George received the Edmonton Historical Board’s Recognition Award for his series of sketches and watercolors of Edmonton historic buildings and sites.
Early on Weber used watercolours as the basis for future serigraphs, however once his watercolours became popular he would often just paint and not shift into the different format.
George Weber was born in Munich, Germany in 1907. He was SFCA trained as a draughtsman, wallpaper design and display. In the late 20's, sensing the dangerous political climate developing in Germany, he immigrated to Canada. George first worked as a wallpaper designer in Toronto; where, in the early 1930’s, he studied composition, color, and commercial silkscreen techniques at the Ontario College of Art.
In the mid-1930s he moved to Edmonton, where he established his own company Art Signs. George attended night classes at the University of Alberta and the Banff School of Fine Arts (1951) for life classes and watercolor techniques under Jack Taylor and Janet Middleton.
Reference:
Ainslie, Patricia and Mary-Beth Laviolette, Alberta Art and Artists. Calgary: Fifth House, 2007.
Cochran, Bente Roed, Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1989.
Greer, Joan, The Changing Picture, 65 Years of the Edmonton Art Club. Edmonton: Edmonton Art Club, 1987
George was a founding member and president of the Edmonton branch of the Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers (CPE); he was a member of the Society of Canadian Painters in Watercolour, the Canadian Graphic Society, the Edmonton Art Club (1935), the Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA), and the Northwest Printmakers (Seattle). Among his numerous exhibitions were the Western Print Exhibit (1957, Hart House, Toronto) and one-man exhibitions at the Edmonton Art Gallery. The first serigraph selected as an honorary membership print for the CPE was Weber’s Inkaneep Reserve in 1954.
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa purchased a number of Weber’s serigraphs. The City of Edmonton presented his original serigraphs to the Edmonton Oiler Hockey team in celebration of their 1988 Stanley Cup victory. George’s works are in the permanent collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Arts & Letters Club (Toronto), Glenbow Foundation (Calgary), Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies (Banff), C.P.E. Permanent Print Collection (Toronto), Lazard Canada Corporation, Imperial Oil, Dominion Foundries and Steel Ltd., Delta Hotels, Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), and Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers.