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E.J. Hughes Biography:
Born in Bragg Creek in 1913, Edward
John Hughes studied under Charles H.
Scott, Jock Macdonald and Frederick
Varley at the Vancouver School of
Applied Art and Design. After
graduating in 1933, and following two
years of post-graduate studies,
Hughes undertook print and mural
projects with fellow art students. In
1939, Hughes joined the military and
spent six years expanding his
artistic skills as an official war
artist. After his discharge from the
military in 1946 he returned to the
west coast of Canada, settled in
Shawnigan Lake on Vancouver Island
with his wife Fern and began a
lifelong study of the province and
its landscape as a professional
artist.
Always a quiet achiever, Hughes was
the inaugural recipient of an Emily
Carr Scholarship on the
recommendation of Group of Seven
member Lawren Harris. By 1951, Hughes
was represented in public collections
in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver - an
achievement unmatched by his
contemporaries at the time. For more
than thirty-five years he was
represented by Max Stern of the
Dominion Gallery in Montreal. In
2001, E.J. Hughes received the Order
of Canada. His achievements and rare
success are due to his singular
approach to representing Canada with
passion and originality.
E.J. Hughes passed away in a Duncan
hospital on Vancouver Island on
January 5, 2007 from a cardiac
arrest. He will be missed by all and
always remembered as a great Canadian
whose impact on Canadian Art and
Culture will endure.
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