Lawrence Arthur Colley Panton

Lawrence Arthur Colley Panton or as he was known in his professional life L. A. C. Panton (1894–1954) was a Canadian painter and educator.

Career Panton was born at Egremont, Cheshire, in England, and emigrated to Canada at 17 years of age. He enlisted in Army in the First World War, serving in the 4th Division, Signal Company (1916–1919). After he returned from the war, he studied art at the Ontario College of Art in the evening. He also took classes at the Central Technical School in Toronto, then worked at Rous and Mann as a designer until 1924 when he got a job teaching art. He taught first at the Central Technical School, then at Western Technical School (1926–1937), and then as art director at Northern Vocational School (1937–1951) from which he took sabbatical leave to study with William C. Palmer (1950). Finally he became principal of the Ontario College of Art (1951–1954). the Canadian Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, the Canadian Society of Graphic Art, the Canadian Group of Painters, the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (full member 1943), the Federation of Canadian Artists (1942, chairman, Ontario Division, 1945), and the Arts and Letters Club (President 1953–1954). He also worked with the Fine Arts Committee of the Canadian National Exhibition and the National Industrial Design Committee. Museum London, Ontario; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba; and the National Gallery of Australia.

The L.A.C. Panton Fonds CA OTAG SC046 is in the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Personal life In 1920 he married Marion Pye; their son Charles was born in 1921 and died in action in 1944.