Stanley Cosgrove

Stanley Cosgrove (23 December 1911 28 April 2002) was a Canadian painter, draughtsperson and muralist. His landscapes are praised for their serenity.

Career Stanley Morel Cosgrove was born in Montreal, Quebec. He studied at the École des beaux-arts in Montreal (1928–1935), and attended the Art Association of Montreal studying with Edwin Holgate (1936). In around 1937, he painted in the Gaspé and Charlevoix regions of Quebec along with Jean Paul Lemieux, Jean Palardy and Jori Smith. In 1938, he assisted Holgate in painting a mural for the Canadian pavilion at the New York World's Fair in 1939.

In 1939, Cosgrove had his first solo show at the École des beaux-arts de Québec, and also exhibited with the Contemporary Arts Society and the Musée du Québec. He received a scholarship from the Province of Quebec in the earlier part of the year and meant to study in France for four years but the outbreak of the Second World War made him choose New York. the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among others. An exhibition of his work was held in the Exhibition Center in Baie-Saint-Paul in 1995.