Thomas Keith Roberts

Artist Bio: Thomas Keith Roberts, RCA, OSA (1909-1998)

Born in 1909, Tom Roberts was the grandson of Samuel Roberts, founder of Roberts Gallery (1842). Having spent much time in the gallery during his youth, Tom resolved at an early age to become an artist. He studied art at Toronto’s Central Technical School and at the Ontario College of Art under such well-known artists as J.W. Beatty and Fred Haines.

His influences included Beatty and the Group of Seven. While in military service during World War II, he portrayed army life in pencil and watercolour sketches. After the war, he painted landscapes at many locations as he traveled across the country. In the mid-1980s he held over 30 one-man exhibitions in Toronto alone.