Robert Pilot

Robert Wakeham Pilot DCL MBE RCA (9 October 1898 – 17 December 1967) was a Canadian artist, who worked mainly in oil on canvas or on panel,[1] and as an etcher and muralist.

[6][2] In March 1916, he joined the army and served as a gunner on trench mortars in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Fifth Division Artillery, during World War I.

He was influenced by Cullen's interpretation of Impressionism and also by Camille Pissarro and James Wilson Morrice because they had to his mind the appropriate balance of form and atmosphere.

[6] In 1953, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in the U.S.A; in the same year Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Civil Laws (Honoris Causa).

[2] Paintings by Pilot were presented to Winston Churchill and to Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.

[11] Pilot died at Montreal General Hospital on 17 December 1967,[5] and was survived by his wife Patricia (née Dawes) and son, Wakeham.