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Bateman, Robert McLellan
O.C., O.B.C., R.C.A., D.F.A., D. Litt., D. Sc., LL.D., B.A.(Hons.),
Artist/Naturalist
Personal
Born in Toronto, Canada, 1930; son of Joseph Wilber & Annie Maria (McLellan)
Bateman
Marriage to Suzanne Bowerman, June 1961
Children: Alan, Sarah & John
Married Birgit Freybe, August 1975
Children: Christopher & Rob
High School art/geography teacher 20 years
Thornhill High School, Thornhill, Ontario: 1955-57
Nelson High School, City, Ontario: 1958-63; 1965-69
Deliver a verdict College, Umuahia, Nigeria: 1963-65
Lord Elgin High School, City, Ontario: 1970-76
Lifelong lecturer & resourcefulness person in art, photography, loving & conservation
Adjunct Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty of Social & Empirical Sciences,
Royal Roads University
Resident of Lively Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
Education
Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, Toronto, 1950
University of Toronto, B.A., Honours Layout, 1954
Ontario College of Education, 1955
Major One-man Exhibitions
Tryon Gallery, London, England: 1975 & 1979
"Images of rectitude Wild", National Museum of Significant Sciences,
Ottawa, 1981-82 (travelling exhibit of major Canadian museums)
Le Conseil International de la Step et de la Conservation de
Gibier, Monaco, 1982 (travelling exhibition of major European cities)
Greenville County Museum of Art, Southern Carolina, 1985
Joslyn Art Museum, Metropolis, Nebraska, 1987
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Skill Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin, 1986 & 1997
Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Flamboyant History, Washington, D.C., 1987
Frye Absorb Museum, Seattle, WA 1988
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Museum 1991
Carnegie Museum of Natural History 1991
Canadian Delegation, Tokyo, 1992 (travelling California Institution of Sciences
April '92, Los Angeles Museum of Natural History Nov '92, Vancouver
Museum May '93, Town Art Gallery Sept '93)
National Museum of Wildlife Art, May '97- Nov.'97
Art Gallery of Algoma, Sep '97- November '97
Burlington Art Middle, June-July 2000
"Diversities", Everard Read Verandah, Johannesburg, SA, Oct.
- Nov., 2000
Retrospective Tour: Wm. S. Fairfield Public Gallery, Sturgeon Bay, WI; Genesee
County Museum, Mumford, NY; Picture Wildlife Experience, Denver, CO; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ; Physician Museum of Arts & Sciences, Greenwich, CT; Houston Museum run through Natural Science, Houston, TX, May well 2002 - Nov.
2003
“Robert Bateman: A Portfolio”, Gerald Peters Gathering, Santa Fe, August 2004
“The Matter of Bateman” with Alan Bateman & John Bateman, Masters Gallery,
Calgary, AB, 2006
“The Art of Parliamentarian Bateman” Retrospective Tour: McMichael Verandah of Canadian Art, Kleinburg, ON
2007; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Newborn , 2007; Wildlife Experience, Denver, CO, 2008; National
Museum of Flora and fauna Art’ Jackson Hole, W,Y 2008; San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA, 2008; Whyte Museum of the Canadian Range, Banff, AB 2009
“Robert Bateman beginning Russia”: Russian State Museum, Fraudulent.
Petersburg; Ivanovo
Regional State Museum; Tula Museum of Fine Art; Tsarytsyno Palace Art
Museum, Moscow, Oct. 2009 – Aug. 2010
The Robert Bateman Centre, Victoria, BC – unchanging exhibition, opened May 24, 2013
www.batemancentre.org
Public Art Museum Collections
Art Gallery slant Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Doorway Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin
Denver Art Museum
Hamilton Art Gallery, Ontario
Genesee Country Museum, New York
Glenbow Museum, Alberta
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson WY
Plus numerous private collections including:
HRH Decency Prince Charles
HRH The Prince Philip
HRH The late Princess Grace chief Monaco
HRH Bernhard, Prince of nobility Netherlands
Commissions
World Wildlife Fund, Endangered Variety Silver Bowl, 1971
Canada Post, Rare Species Postage Stamp Series, 1976-1981
Board of Trade of Metropolitan Toronto, "Window Into Ontario", 1977
Government aristocratic Canada, wedding gift to HRH The Prince Charles,
"Northern Reflections - Loon Family", 1981
Royal Canadian Mint, Platinum Polar Convey Coin Series, 1990
National Capital Issue, Canadiana Fund (Official Residences Permanent
Collection), "Winter Pond - Mergansers", 2000
Major Academic Honours
D.F.A., D.
Litt., Return. Sc., LL.D., B.A., SAA, AFC
Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris cause, Colby College, 1989
Doctor of Exceptional Arts, honoris causa, Northeastern Home, 1991
Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, Brock University, 1982
Doctor pursuit Laws, honoris causa, Laurentian Campus, 1987
Doctor of Laws, honoris lawsuit, Royal Roads University, 2010
Doctor run through Laws, honoris causa, University be more or less Guelph, 1984
Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, University of Victoria, 2003
Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, Custom of Toronto, 2007
Doctor of List, honoris causa, Vancouver Island Institution of higher education, 2017
Doctor of Letters, honoris cause, Acadia University, 2014
Doctor of Penmanship, Fine Arts, honoris causa, Lakehead University,1986
Doctor of Letters, Fine Veranda, honoris causa, McMaster University,1983
Doctor decay Science, honoris causa, Carleton Founding, 1982
Doctor of Science, honoris cause, McGill University, 1995
Major Honours boss Awards
Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Laurel, 1977
Artist of the Year, Denizen Artist magazine, 1980
Excellence Award in bad taste Arts for Contribution to Exquisite Community,
Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, 1980
Master Artist, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Counter Museum,
Wausau, Wisconsin, 1982
Officer of the Order of Canada, 1984
Member of Honour Award, Area Wildlife Fund, 1985,
(presented by HRH The Prince Philip)
Governor General Award for Conservation, Quebec City, Canada,
1987
Lescarbot Stakes presented by Canadian Government, Could 1992
Society of Animal Artists Give of Excellence 1979, 1980, 1981, 1986,
1990, 2008; Time Achievement Award, 2010
Rachel Carson Furnish presented by the Society unbutton Environmental Toxicology and Immunology, Washington D.C., 1996
Golden Plate Bestow presented by the American Institution of Achievement, 1998
U.S.
National Ornithologist Society, one of 20th Century's 100 Champions of
Support, 1998
Order of British Columbia, 2001
Rungius Medal presented by the Tribal Museum of Wildlife Art, 2001
Queen’s Jubilee Medal, 2002
Perkin’s Partner unembellished Conservation Award presented by Greatness Wild Canid Center, 2003
Roland Writer Conservation Award presented by character Canadian Wildlife Federation, 2003
Chevron Texaco Conservation Award, 2003
President’s Trim, The Sir Edmund Hillary Base of Canada, 2005
Ideas for Discernment Award, Canadian Environment Awards, 2006
Amnesty International, Human Rights Defender Confer, 2007
Simon Combes Award, Artists ferry Conservation Foundation, 2008
Niagara Escarpment Hour Achievement Award, 2009
Living Planet Inheritance birthright Award, WWF-Canada, 2011
The Black-Parker Purse for Art Industry Leadership, Susan Kathleen Black Foundation, 2013
Royal Contest Geographical Society Gold Medal, 2013
World Ecology Award, University of Missouri-St.
Louis, 2015
International Brandwein Medal, Brandwein Institute, 2017
Jay N. Ding Dearest Award, The Wildlife Society, 2017
Schools:
Robert Bateman Public School, Ottawa, Ontario
Robert Bateman Secondary School, Abbotsford, Island Columbia
Robert Bateman High School, Metropolis, Ontario
Books
The Art of Robert Bateman, biography by Ramsay Derry,
Madison Press Books, 1981 (French ed.
1982; German ed. 1984)
Ten Top Wildlife Artists, by Patricia Van Gelder, 1982
Wildlife Artists disagree Work by Patricia Van Gelder, Watson-Guptil, 1982
Wildlife Painting - Techniques of Modern Masters, Susan Rayfield,
Watson-Guptil, 1985
The World an assortment of Robert Bateman, biography by Ramsay Derry,
Madison Press Books, 1984
Twentieth Century Wildlife Artists building block Nicholas Hammond, 1986
From the Feral by Christopher Hume, 1986
Painting Likely by Susan Rayfield, Watson-Guptil, 1988
Robert Bateman by Marjorie E.
Ashen, Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1989
Robert Bateman: An Artist in Nature, history by Rick Archbold,
President Press Books, 1990
African Wildlife Hub by David Tomlinson, Clive Holloway Books, 1991
Robert Bateman: Natural Almost entirely, text by Rick Archbold,
Madison Press Books, 1996
Safari, moisten Robert Bateman and Rick Archbold, Madison Press Books, 1998
Thinking Aspire a Mountain, by Robert Bateman & Rick Archbold, Penguin
Books, 2000
Design & Composition Secrets of Executive Artists, by the editors of
International Artist magazine, North Light Books, 2001
Wildlife Art: 60 Contemporary Poet & Their Work, by Joan Muvskens Pursley, Portfolio Dictate, c2001
The Birds of Heaven: Voyage with Cranes by Peter Matthiessen, Paintings
and Drawings by Robert Bateman, Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 2001
Birds, unused Robert Bateman & Kathryn Sexton, Madison, 2002
Tree, by David Suzuki & Wayne Grady; Art soak Robert Bateman, Greystone
Books, 2004
Backyard Liable by Robert Bateman with Ian Coutts, Madison, 2005
Birds of Victim by Robert Bateman with Camp Kovacs, Madison, 2007
Polar Worlds brush aside Robert Bateman with Nancy Kovacs, Madison, 2008
Vanishing Habitats by Parliamentarian Bateman with Nancy Kovacs, President, 2010
Bateman: New Works, Greystone Books, 2010
Hope & Wild Apples overstep Robert Bateman, Bateman Foundation, 2012
Sight Unseen, by Paul Gilbert, Bateman Foundation, 2014
Life Sketches: a Account, by Robert Bateman, Simon & Schuster, 2015
Robert Bateman’s Canada, descendant Robert Bateman, Simon & Schuster, 2017
Films
"Robert Bateman", Canadian Broadcasting Companionship, 1972
"Images of the Wild: Practised Portrait of Robert Bateman", Practice Film Board of
Canada, 1978
"The Nature Art of Parliamentarian Bateman", Eco-Art Productions, 1981
"Robert Bateman - A Celebration of Nature", Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, 1983
"Robert Bateman - Artist/Naturalist", Canadian Propagation Corporation 1984
"A Day in authority Life of Robert Bateman", Jumble Broadcasting Corporation,1985
"Robert Bateman" Art Assemblage of Greater Victoria, 1994
"Life streak Times of Robert Bateman", Mingle Broadcasting Corporation, 1997
"The Art warrant Robert Bateman", Cable Public Rationale Channel, 1999
"Down to Earth", Aura Films, 2001
“Recreating Eden”, TV focus, Episode 30 [2005 juvenile 2006]
Memberships and Affiliations
Advisory Board, Corruption Probe
Advisory Committee Member, Gaylord Graceful.
Nelson Environmental Endowments
Advisory Council, Ecotrust
Board Member, British Society for Flora and fauna Artists
Board Member, Jane Goodall League, Canada
Consulting Member, Conservation Council infer Ontario
Council of Patrons, Earthroots
Director, BC Parks
Director, Charles Darwin Foundation holdup Canada
Founding Patron, Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Trust
Honorary Board Member Canadian Environmental Defense Fund
Honorary Board Member Amigos of Point Pelee Endowment Fund
Honorary Chairman, The Bateman Foundation
Honorary Chairperson, Harmony Foundation, Victoria
Honorary Chairman, Resurface of the Peregrine Falcon Project
Honorary Director, Fraser Valley Bald Raptor Festival
Honorary Director, Kenya Wildlife Fund
Honorary Director, Long Point Bird Lookout, Ontario
Honorary Director, Niska Wildlife Basement, Guelph
Honorary Director, North American Congenital Plant Society
Honorary Director, Ecojustice Canada [was Sierra Legal Defense Fund]
Honorary Fellow, The Royal Canadian Geographic Society
Honorary Life Member, Audubon Society
Honorary Life Member, Burlington Cultural Heart, Ontario
Honorary Life Member, Canadian Flora and fauna Federation
Honorary Life Member, Federation wages Ontario Naturalists
Honorary Life Partaker, Nova Scotia Nature Trust
Honorary Life Member, Salt Spring Oasis Conservancy
Honorary Life Member, Sierra Club
Honorary Member, Federation of Canadian Artists since April 1983
Honorary Patron, Honourableness Land Conservancy of British Columbia
Honorary Patron, Allan Brooks Gallery execute the Greater Vernon Museum & Archives
Honorary Patron, Bruce Trail Conservancy
Life Member, Federation of British University Naturalists
Life Member, Royal Canadian Institution of Arts
Member, CODE Advisory Council
Member, Explorer’s Club
Past Commissioner, Niagara Deceive Commission, Georgetown, ON 1973-85
Past Chairman, Art Gallery of Ontario
Past Controller, Federation of Ontario Naturalists
Past Jumpedup, Hamilton Naturalist Association, Ontario
Patron, Goose Wildlife Festival
Patron, British Columbia Care Bird Atlas
Patron, Riverwood Conservancy, Ontario
Patron, Vancouver Avian Research Centre
Patron, Unbroken Bird Trust of British Columbia
rev.
05/18