Tom Hodgson

• Name — Thomas Hodgson • Birth Name — Thomas Sherlock Hodgson • Born — 5 June 1924 • Birthplace — Toronto, Ontario • Died — 27 February 2006 • Place of death — Peterborough, Ontario • Known for — Painter • Training — Central Technical School (1939–1943) Ontario College of Art (1945–1946) • Movement — Painters Eleven

Hodgson grew up on Toronto's Centre Island and started painting as a child. He attended Central Technical High School in Toronto, then in 1943 began to serve in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. Discharged in 1945, he attended the Ontario College of Art. Hodgson began working in advertising from 1948 to 1967 but at the same time, experimented as an artist, making watercolours and joining art societies such as the Ontario Society of Artists, the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, the Canadian Group of Painters and the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour. By the early 1950s, he was experimenting with abstraction, and was invited to join Painters Eleven. From 1968 to 1973, he taught at the Ontario College of Art. Afterwards, he taught at Art Space in Toronto. A native of Toronto, he died in Peterborough of Alzheimer's disease on February 27, 2006.

His work is characterized by a large format, in bold colours and strokes of paint. One critic calls him the consummate gestural painter of the Eleven, gutsy and aggressive but finally, lyrical. He thought of abstraction as abstracting a feeling or memory of something rather than a record of nature.

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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Institutional cataloguing adds that tom Hodgson is recorded with the occupation painter. It is also recorded that tom Hodgson is recorded as a citizen of Canada. Recorded with the gender male. It is also recorded that tom Hodgson was born on 5 June 1924. Institutional cataloguing adds that tom Hodgson died on 27 February 2006. Institutional cataloguing adds that tom Hodgson is recorded with a height of 180.