William Goodridge Roberts

Artist Bio: William Goodridge Roberts (1904-1974)

William Goodridge Roberts was a Canadian painter known for his landscape paintings, still lifes’ and interiors. Roberts was the son of poet and novelist Theodore Goodridge Roberts and was born in Barbados in 1904. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal and at the Art Students League of New York. From 1933 to 1936, he was the resident artist at Queen’s University. In 1938 Roberts joined the Eastern Group of Painters, and in 1939, he exhibited at the New York World’s Fair. He taught at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from 1940 to 1952. During the period from 1943 to 1945, he was an official war artist for the Royal Canadian Air Force. In 1953, he received a Canadian government scholarship to study painting in France. From 1954 to 1960, he was Artist in residence at the University of New Brunswick.