Norman Yates

Norman Yates (September 23, 1923 February 09, 2014) was a painter in washes of colour of panoramic abstract and semi-abstract paintings that he called "landspaces". His themes were space and energy. In 2023, Patricia Bovey said that his landscapes are "flowing, evocative, ephemeral and always changing, reflecting the intangibility of the light, skies, and atmospheric effects". She added that his paintings are significant works in the annals of Western Canadian Art.

Career Yates was born in Calgary and grew up in Regina. After four years of service as a radar technician in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War, he attended the Ontario College of Art, graduating in 1951. After 3 years in Toronto, in 1954, he was hired to teach in the University of Alberta's department of arts and design in Edmonton where he remained until he retired in 1989. Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Alberta Art: Exhibition of Art Works from the Collection of the Alberta Art Foundation = Exposition d'oeuvres provenant de la collection de la Fondation des arts de l'Alberta, 1975; Ring House Gallery, Edmonton, Alta, Norman Yates: Toward Landscape, 1983. Executive of the University Art Association of Canada, 1971–1973; Alberta Foundation for the Arts;

Commissions Murals, West and North, 202 four-by-eight-foot plywood planks, exterior of the Education Building, University of Alberta; Interior work for the Stanley Milner Library in Edmonton; Mural on the Amoco Building, Calgary;