David Lloyd Blackwood CM OOnt RCA (November 7, 1941 – July 2, 2022) was a Canadian artist known chiefly for his intaglio prints, often depicting dramatic historical scenes of Newfoundland outport life and industry, such as shipwrecks, seal hunting, iceberg encounters and resettlement.
[3] After graduating in 1963, he remained in Ontario, where he became Art Master at Trinity College School in Port Hope.
[2] He worked on a series of fifty etchings titled The Lost Party, depicting a provincial sealing disaster in 1914,[2] throughout the 1960s and into the early 1970s.
[2] His art was displayed internationally at Windsor Castle as part of the Royal Collection, the National Gallery of Australia, and at the Uffizi in Florence.
[6] In 2003, he became the first practicing artist to be named Honorary Chairman of the Art Gallery of Ontario, which maintains a Blackwood Research Centre and a major collection of his work.
[1] He was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in April 1993 and invested ten months later in February of the following year.