Mercurio Artist
Colin Graham
Born Vancouver BC 1915. Studied at UBC, Cambridge, and U of C, Berkeley.
From 1951 to 1974, during his tenure as Curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Colin Graham was instrumental in furthering the acceptance of modern art and its practitioners in a city still largely entrenched in a conservative, colonial attitude toward the arts.
On leaving his curatorial position, Graham began to actively pursue his own practice as a painter, creating a distinctive body of work in both watercolour and oils. He became a member of the Limners Group, an association of Victoria artists many of whom Graham had exhibited during the previous two decades.
Died Victoria 2010