Arthur Edward CANTRELL (1917 – 1998)
Blue Abstact
year unknown
oil on canvas
size unknown
BIOGRAPHY
Arthur Edward Cantrell was born in Burma (now Myanmar) in 1917. In 1936, he moved to South Africa, where he worked as a metalworker and sculptor before serving as a bomb navigator during World War II. Cantrell became a full-time artist in 1952 and, in 1961, joined the Bloemfontein Group, which had been founded by Frans Claerhout, Reneé le Roux, Alexander and Marianne Podlashuc, and Eben van der Merwe in 1958.
Cantrell’s style varies from figuration to abstraction and his subject matter ranges from detailed ink drawings of city scenes to colour-blocked still life paintings.