Frank Leonard Brooks

Leonard Brooks (7 November 1911 – 20 November 2011) was a Canadian artist.

Biography Born in London, England, Brooks arrived in Canada in 1912. He studied art at Central Technical School, then the Ontario College of Art and with Frank Johnston (1929). Brooks taught at Northern Vocational School in Toronto He played first violin in concerts with the Guanajuato Symphony. He taught for many years in the music department at the Bellas Artes school in San Miguel de Allende.

On 12 August 1950 he and his wife Reva, as well as Stirling Dickinson and five other American teachers, were deported from Mexico. The official reason was that they did not have proper work visas but the cause may have been a falling out with the owner of a rival school. Leonard Brooks was eventually able to get the deportation order lifted through his contact with General Ignacio M. Beteta, whose brother Ramón Beteta Quintana was an influential politician at the national level.

Brooks published a number of works on watercolour and oil painting techniques.

He turned 100 on November 7, 2011. He died 20 November 2011 in San Miguel de Allende.

Honours Associate Royal Canadian Academy (1939)