Students standing at their easels taking instruction from Ken Lochhead.

Bio/Historical Note: Kenneth Campbell Lochhead was born in 1926 in Ottawa. He attended the Summer Art School at Queen's University in 1944 and from 1945-1948, he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Lochhead studied at the Barnes Foundation near Philadelphia from 1946-1948. He was the director of the School of Art at the University of Saskatchewan Regina Campus from 1950-1964. Among his pupils there was Joan Rankin. In 1961 Lochhead 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 associate professor in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba. In 1970 Lochhead 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. Lochhead was awarded the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts in 2006. Lochhead died in Ottawa in 2006.