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Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:33 pm**

Canadian painter Ken Danby dies at 67

Renowned artist Ken Danby, one of Canada's foremost realist painters, has died at age 67.

Danby died Sunday while canoeing in Algonquin Park, according to Greg McKee, the manager of the Danby Studio in Guelph, Ont.

It's believed Danby died of a heart attack, but the cause of death will not be known until an autopsy is completed, McKee said.

Danby is best known for his 1972 painting At the Crease, showing a masked hockey player. The egg tempera work hangs in reproduction in countless homes of Canadian hockey lovers.

source CBC News

His most famous painting

At the Crease

Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:45 pm**

Coming from the UK I've never heard of him but can't deny that's a fantastic painting, almost like a photo :o
Always sad to see super talented people leave us.

Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:00 pm**

Sad news. He was one of the greats.

Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:17 pm**

That's a painting???

RIP Ken Danby.... :'(

Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:37 pm**

That's a painting???

That's what I was gonna say. That looks extreamly realistic.

Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:10 pm**

That's a painting???

Yes, and made by the same type of paint many of us played with, drank, or otherwise just wasted in primary school.

Posted: **Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:21 am**

That's a painting???

RIP Ken Danby....

Well, technically it's a digital photo of a painting displayed on your monitor. :)

I'm amazed that's a painting as well. Incredible.

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:36 am**

I'm usually pretty indifferent to photorealist painting (why not a photo? ), but you have to respect the effort and skill.

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:56 pm**

Definately photo-realist school! It is nice to see someone mention something about the visual arts here on SimV. Too bad it is a note of passing.

best,

...................john

Posted: **Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:11 pm**

Yes, and made by the same type of paint many of us played with, drank, or otherwise just wasted in primary school.

Imagine what you may have done if you'd put them where they belonged -- and remained so much saner, too!

8-)

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