Students seated taking instruction from Ken Lochhead. Paintings on wall in background.

Bio/Historical Note: Kenneth Campbell Lochhead, OC (1926-2006) was a Canadian professor and painter. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he attended the Summer Art School at Queen's University in 1944. From 1945-1948, he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. From 1946-1948, he studied at the Barnes Foundation near Philadelphia. From 1950 to 1964, he was the director of the School of Art at the University of Saskatchewan – Regina Campus. Among his pupils there was Joan Rankin. In 1961, he exhibited his paintings as part of the Regina Five at the National Gallery of Canada with Art McKay, Ron Bloore, Ted Godwin, and Doug Morton. From 1964-1973, he was an associate professor in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba. In 1970, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contribution to the development of painting, especially in Western Canada, as an artist and teacher.” From 1973-1975, he was a professor in the Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts at York University. From 1975 to 1989, he was a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa. In 2006, he was awarded the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts. He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Lochhead died in Ottawa in 2006.