Sam Black (artist)

Sam Black, (5 June 1913 – 23 April 1997) was a Scottish artist and teacher best known both for the artworks he produced during the Second World War and for his post-war academic career in Canada.

[1] Black produced landscapes and architectural subjects in oils and watercolours but also worked in other media including welded metals.

His application was supported by Muirhead Bone and by the end of the conflict WAAC had acquired five paintings from Black, which are now in the collection of the Imperial War Museum.

[4] After the war, Black resumed his teaching career, initially as a school inspector and then, from 1949, as Principal Lecturer in Arts at Jordanhill College in Glasgow.

Black remained at UBC until he retired, to live on Bowen Island, in 1978, a year after he had been elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.