Joseph Plaskett OC RCA (12 July 1918 – 21 September 2014) was a Canadian painter.
[1] Afterwards, he taught at the Winnipeg School of Art where he was made director (1947-1949)[5] In summers, he studied in New York and once, with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown in 1947.
[3][5] He then studied at the Slade School, London (1951-1952) with a bursary awarded by the British Arts Council.
He took etching and engraving with Stanley William Hayter in Paris in 1953 with the aid of a Canadian Government Overseas Scholarship, and opened a studio there in 1957.
[3][7] In Paris, Plaskett, having renounced abstraction, painted still lifes in oils and did pastels that Vancouver Sun art critic Michael Scott described as “romanticized impressionism”.