John Dann

John Dann was born in Montreal in 1951.  At age fourteen he had decided on a career in art.  He left school at the age of sixteen and attended the Montreal Museum School of Art.  At age eighteen he traveled to Italy where he briefly attended the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Carrara, before leaving the school to work in foundries and marble ateliers.  He worked with the artist, Gonzalo Fonseca, for two years in both Italy and New York.

John returned to Montreal in 1973 and the following year was married.  Between 1973 and 1984 he undertook numerous sculptured portraits of prominent Canadians, including John Diefenbaker, Dr. Wilder Penfield,  Lester Pearson and Glenn Gould, as well as the bronze statue of Sir John A. Macdonald that was later installed in front of City Hall in Victoria BC.  In 1982 the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria organized an exhibition of his sculpture to coincide with the unveiling of the Macdonald sculpture.

In 1985  Dann moved to Massachusetts, a time that saw his sculpture became increasingly abstract. When he returned to Canada in 2008 there was again a demarcation that saw painting and colour become a more important element in his work.  

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Untitled (591.1)
60 in x 60 in
acrylic on baltic birch

wall-mounted sculpture

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Cordova I
60 in x 48 in
acrylic on baltic birch

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Cordova II
28 in x 36 in
acrylic on baltic birch

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Cordova III
60 in x 60 in
acrylic on baltic birch

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Cordova IV
60 in x 60 in
acrylic on baltic birch

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Cordova V
22 in x 23.75 in
acrylic on baltic birch

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Cordova VI
60 in x 57 in
acrylic on baltic birch

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Cordova VII
60 in x 36 in
acrylic on baltic birch

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Cordova VIII
28.5 in x 32 in
acrylic on baltic birch

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Cordova IX
32 in x 31.5 in x 3.75 in
acrylic on aluminum

wall-mounted sculpture

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Cordova X
60 in x 60 in
acrylic on aluminum

wall-mounted sculpture

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Cordova XI
32.25 in x 31.75 in x 3.75 in
acrylic on aluminum

wall-mounted sculpture

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Cordova XII
45 in x 52 in
Acrylic on Stainless Steel

wall-mounted sculpture

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Contiguous Sword and Sky
60 in x 60 in
acrylic on baltic birch

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Balance (variation 1 of 3)
43 in x 40 in
acrylic on aluminum

wall-mounted sculpture

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Fifteen Footer (variation 1 of 3)
175.25 in x 72 in
acrylic on aluminum

wall-mounted sculpture

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Untitled Colour
60 in x 60 in
acrylic on baltic birch

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Thrice
61.5 in x 112 in
acrylic on baltic birch

wall-mounted sculpture

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Between (2 of 3)
36 in x 68.5 in
acrylic on aluminum

wall-mounted sculpture

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Blue Squiggle
35.75 in x 53 in
acrylic on baltic birch

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Untitled (601.6)
12 in x 12 in
acrylic on board

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Untitled (601.7)
12 in x 12 in
acrylic on board

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Untitled (601.8)
12 in x 12 in
acrylic on board

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Untitled (601.9)
12 in x 12 in
acrylic on board

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Untitled (594.2)
24 in x 24 in
acrylic on canvas

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Arbutus I
60 in x 60 in
oil on baltic birch

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Arbutus II
60 in x 60 in
acrylic on baltic birch

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Urban Song II
47 in x 17 in
Acrylic on Stainless Steel

wall-mounted sculpture

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Urban Song
24 in x 24 in
Acrylic on Stainless Steel

wall-mounted sculpture

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After TTG
28 in x 10 in
acrylic on wood

wall-mounted sculpture

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Torso (ed. # 4 of 6)
52.75 in x 15.75 in x 13.5 in
bronze & pietra di Cardoso