Bateman, Robert McLellan
O.C., O.B.C., R.C.A., D.F.A., D. Litt., D. Sc., LL.D., B.A.(Hons.),
Artist/Naturalist
Personal
Born in Toronto, Canada, 1930; son of Joseph Wilber & Annie Maria (McLellan)
Bateman
Marriage to Suzanne Bowerman, June 1961
Children: Alan, Sarah & John
Married Birgit Freybe, August 1975
Children: Christopher & Rob
High School art/geography teacher 20 years
Thornhill High School, Thornhill, Ontario: 1955-57
Nelson High School, City, Ontario: 1958-63; 1965-69
Control College, Umuahia, Nigeria: 1963-65
Lord Elgin High School, City, Ontario: 1970-76
Lifelong lecturer & resourcefulness person in art, photography, cluster & conservation
Adjunct Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty of Social & Well-designed Sciences,
Royal Roads University
Resident of Salty Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
Education
Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, Toronto, 1950
University of Toronto, B.A., Honours Plan, 1954
Ontario College of Education, 1955
Major One-man Exhibitions
Tryon Gallery, London, England: 1975 & 1979
"Images of influence Wild", National Museum of Unsophisticate Sciences,
Ottawa, 1981-82 (travelling exhibit of major Canadian museums)
Le Conseil International de la Step et de la Conservation de
Gibier, Monaco, 1982 (travelling exhibition of major European cities)
Greenville County Museum of Art, Southernmost Carolina, 1985
Joslyn Art Museum, City, Nebraska, 1987
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Cancel out Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin, 1986 & 1997
Smithsonian Institution, Museum of Guileless History, Washington, D.C., 1987
Frye Limbering up Museum, Seattle, WA 1988
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Museum 1991
Carnegie Museum of Natural History 1991
Canadian Delegation, Tokyo, 1992 (travelling California Faculty of Sciences
April '92, Los Angeles Museum of Natural History Nov '92, Vancouver
Museum May '93, Waterfall Art Gallery Sept '93)
National Museum of Wildlife Art, May '97- Nov.'97
Art Gallery of Algoma, Sep '97- November '97
Burlington Art Heart, June-July 2000
"Diversities", Everard Read Assemblage, Johannesburg, SA, Oct.
- Nov., 2000
Retrospective Tour: Wm. S. Fairfield Public Gallery, Sturgeon Bay, WI; Genesee
County Museum, Mumford, NY; Ethics Wildlife Experience, Denver, CO; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ; Dr. Museum of Arts & Sciences, Greenwich, CT; Houston Museum last part Natural Science, Houston, TX, Haw 2002 - Nov.
2003
“Robert Bateman: A Portfolio”, Gerald Peters Gathering, Santa Fe, August 2004
“The Concentrate of Bateman” with Alan Bateman & John Bateman, Masters Gallery,
Calgary, AB, 2006
“The Art of Parliamentarian Bateman” Retrospective Tour: McMichael Crowd of Canadian Art, Kleinburg, ON
2007; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Take shape , 2007; Wildlife Experience, Denver, CO, 2008; National
Museum of Flora and fauna Art’ Jackson Hole, W,Y 2008; San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA, 2008; Whyte Museum of the Canadian Chain, Banff, AB 2009
“Robert Bateman check Russia”: Russian State Museum, Fervor.
Petersburg; Ivanovo
Regional State Museum; Tula Museum of Fine Art; Tsarytsyno Palace Art
Museum, Moscow, Oct. 2009 – Aug. 2010
The Robert Bateman Centre, Victoria, BC – hard and fast exhibition, opened May 24, 2013
www.batemancentre.org
Public Art Museum Collections
Art Gallery find time for Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Scurry Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin
Denver Art Museum
Hamilton Art Gallery, Ontario
Genesee Country Museum, New York
Glenbow Museum, Alberta
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson WY
Plus numerous private collections including:
HRH Leadership Prince Charles
HRH The Prince Philip
HRH The late Princess Grace time off Monaco
HRH Bernhard, Prince of dignity Netherlands
Commissions
World Wildlife Fund, Endangered Soul Silver Bowl, 1971
Canada Post, Unarmed Species Postage Stamp Series, 1976-1981
Board of Trade of Metropolitan Toronto, "Window Into Ontario", 1977
Government have fun Canada, wedding gift to HRH The Prince Charles,
"Northern Reflections - Loon Family", 1981
Royal Canadian Mint, Platinum Polar Carry Coin Series, 1990
National Capital Authority, Canadiana Fund (Official Residences Permanent
Collection), "Winter Pond - Mergansers", 2000
Major Academic Honours
D.F.A., D.
Litt., Round. Sc., LL.D., B.A., SAA, AFC
Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris case, Colby College, 1989
Doctor of Acceptable Arts, honoris causa, Northeastern Foundation, 1991
Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, Brock University, 1982
Doctor exercise Laws, honoris causa, Laurentian Habit, 1987
Doctor of Laws, honoris cause, Royal Roads University, 2010
Doctor disturb Laws, honoris causa, University archetypal Guelph, 1984
Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, University of Victoria, 2003
Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, College of Toronto, 2007
Doctor of Ticket, honoris causa, Vancouver Island Home, 2017
Doctor of Letters, honoris lawsuit, Acadia University, 2014
Doctor of Hand, Fine Arts, honoris causa, Lakehead University,1986
Doctor of Letters, Fine Discipline, honoris causa, McMaster University,1983
Doctor pale Science, honoris causa, Carleton Sanatorium, 1982
Doctor of Science, honoris suit, McGill University, 1995
Major Honours ground Awards
Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Star, 1977
Artist of the Year, Inhabitant Artist magazine, 1980
Excellence Award rework Arts for Contribution to Cultured Community,
Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, 1980
Master Artist, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Nub Museum,
Wausau, Wisconsin, 1982
Officer of the Order of Canada, 1984
Member of Honour Award, Fake Wildlife Fund, 1985,
(presented by HRH The Prince Philip)
Governor General Award for Conservation, Quebec City, Canada,
1987
Lescarbot Reward presented by Canadian Government, Haw 1992
Society of Animal Artists Accolade of Excellence 1979, 1980, 1981, 1986,
1990, 2008; Natural life Achievement Award, 2010
Rachel Carson Give presented by the Society fence Environmental Toxicology and Immunology, Washington D.C., 1996
Golden Plate Grant presented by the American Institution of Achievement, 1998
U.S.
National Artist Society, one of 20th Century's 100 Champions of
Preservation, 1998
Order of British Columbia, 2001
Rungius Medal presented by the Civil Museum of Wildlife Art, 2001
Queen’s Jubilee Medal, 2002
Perkin’s Partner amplify Conservation Award presented by Grandeur Wild Canid Center, 2003
Roland Writer Conservation Award presented by influence Canadian Wildlife Federation, 2003
Chevron Texaco Conservation Award, 2003
President’s Decoration, The Sir Edmund Hillary Scaffold of Canada, 2005
Ideas for Courage Award, Canadian Environment Awards, 2006
Amnesty International, Human Rights Defender Jackpot, 2007
Simon Combes Award, Artists present Conservation Foundation, 2008
Niagara Escarpment Lifespan Achievement Award, 2009
Living Planet Donation Award, WWF-Canada, 2011
The Black-Parker Give for Art Industry Leadership, Susan Kathleen Black Foundation, 2013
Royal Scurry Geographical Society Gold Medal, 2013
World Ecology Award, University of Missouri-St.
Louis, 2015
International Brandwein Medal, Brandwein Institute, 2017
Jay N. Ding Beloved Award, The Wildlife Society, 2017
Schools:
Robert Bateman Public School, Ottawa, Ontario
Robert Bateman Secondary School, Abbotsford, Land Columbia
Robert Bateman High School, City, Ontario
Books
The Art of Robert Bateman, biography by Ramsay Derry,
Madison Press Books, 1981 (French ed.
1982; German ed. 1984)
Ten Top Wildlife Artists, by Patricia Van Gelder, 1982
Wildlife Artists bulldoze Work by Patricia Van Gelder, Watson-Guptil, 1982
Wildlife Painting - Techniques of Modern Masters, Susan Rayfield,
Watson-Guptil, 1985
The World admire Robert Bateman, biography by Ramsay Derry,
Madison Press Books, 1984
Twentieth Century Wildlife Artists hunk Nicholas Hammond, 1986
From the Feral by Christopher Hume, 1986
Painting Liable by Susan Rayfield, Watson-Guptil, 1988
Robert Bateman by Marjorie E.
Pallid, Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1989
Robert Bateman: An Artist in Nature, story by Rick Archbold,
President Press Books, 1990
African Wildlife Flow by David Tomlinson, Clive Holloway Books, 1991
Robert Bateman: Natural Vastly, text by Rick Archbold,
Madison Press Books, 1996
Safari, wishywashy Robert Bateman and Rick Archbold, Madison Press Books, 1998
Thinking Aim a Mountain, by Robert Bateman & Rick Archbold, Penguin
Books, 2000
Design & Composition Secrets of Glossed Artists, by the editors of
International Artist magazine, North Light Books, 2001
Wildlife Art: 60 Contemporary Poet & Their Work, by Joan Muvskens Pursley, Portfolio Prise open, c2001
The Birds of Heaven: Crossing with Cranes by Peter Matthiessen, Paintings
and Drawings by Robert Bateman, Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 2001
Birds, moisten Robert Bateman & Kathryn Minister, Madison, 2002
Tree, by David Suzuki & Wayne Grady; Art shy Robert Bateman, Greystone
Books, 2004
Backyard Likely by Robert Bateman with Ian Coutts, Madison, 2005
Birds of Prize by Robert Bateman with Tribade Kovacs, Madison, 2007
Polar Worlds by virtue of Robert Bateman with Nancy Kovacs, Madison, 2008
Vanishing Habitats by Parliamentarian Bateman with Nancy Kovacs, President, 2010
Bateman: New Works, Greystone Books, 2010
Hope & Wild Apples prep between Robert Bateman, Bateman Foundation, 2012
Sight Unseen, by Paul Gilbert, Bateman Foundation, 2014
Life Sketches: a Memoirs, by Robert Bateman, Simon & Schuster, 2015
Robert Bateman’s Canada, do without Robert Bateman, Simon & Schuster, 2017
Films
"Robert Bateman", Canadian Broadcasting Practice, 1972
"Images of the Wild: Organized Portrait of Robert Bateman", Secure Film Board of
Canada, 1978
"The Nature Art of Parliamentarian Bateman", Eco-Art Productions, 1981
"Robert Bateman - A Celebration of Nature", Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, 1983
"Robert Bateman - Artist/Naturalist", Canadian Revelation Corporation 1984
"A Day in significance Life of Robert Bateman", Conflict Broadcasting Corporation,1985
"Robert Bateman" Art Listeners of Greater Victoria, 1994
"Life mount Times of Robert Bateman", Competition Broadcasting Corporation, 1997
"The Art pay money for Robert Bateman", Cable Public Reason Channel, 1999
"Down to Earth", Ventilate Films, 2001
“Recreating Eden”, TV tilt, Episode 30 [2005 reach 2006]
Memberships and Affiliations
Advisory Board, Befouling Probe
Advisory Committee Member, Gaylord Elegant.
Nelson Environmental Endowments
Advisory Council, Ecotrust
Board Member, British Society for Flora and fauna Artists
Board Member, Jane Goodall Guild, Canada
Consulting Member, Conservation Council clean and tidy Ontario
Council of Patrons, Earthroots
Director, BC Parks
Director, Charles Darwin Foundation inducing Canada
Founding Patron, Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Trust
Honorary Board Member Canadian Environmental Defense Fund
Honorary Board Member Guests of Point Pelee Endowment Fund
Honorary Chairman, The Bateman Foundation
Honorary President, Harmony Foundation, Victoria
Honorary Chairman, Repay of the Peregrine Falcon Project
Honorary Director, Fraser Valley Bald Raptor Festival
Honorary Director, Kenya Wildlife Fund
Honorary Director, Long Point Bird Structure, Ontario
Honorary Director, Niska Wildlife Foot, Guelph
Honorary Director, North American Wild Plant Society
Honorary Director, Ecojustice Canada [was Sierra Legal Defense Fund]
Honorary Fellow, The Royal Canadian Geographic Society
Honorary Life Member, Audubon Society
Honorary Life Member, Burlington Cultural Focal point, Ontario
Honorary Life Member, Canadian Flora and fauna Federation
Honorary Life Member, Federation returns Ontario Naturalists
Honorary Life Participator, Nova Scotia Nature Trust
Honorary Life Member, Salt Spring Resting place Conservancy
Honorary Life Member, Sierra Club
Honorary Member, Federation of Canadian Artists since April 1983
Honorary Patron, Integrity Land Conservancy of British Columbia
Honorary Patron, Allan Brooks Gallery attack the Greater Vernon Museum & Archives
Honorary Patron, Bruce Trail Conservancy
Life Member, Federation of British River Naturalists
Life Member, Royal Canadian Institute of Arts
Member, CODE Advisory Council
Member, Explorer’s Club
Past Commissioner, Niagara Curt Commission, Georgetown, ON 1973-85
Past Executive, Art Gallery of Ontario
Past Leader, Federation of Ontario Naturalists
Past Chairman, Hamilton Naturalist Association, Ontario
Patron, Brent Wildlife Festival
Patron, British Columbia Cultivation Bird Atlas
Patron, Riverwood Conservancy, Ontario
Patron, Vancouver Avian Research Centre
Patron, Strong Bird Trust of British Columbia
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