• Source: Ronald L. Myren

Ronald Lloyd Myren (4 June 1937 – 10 Nov 2003) was a Canadian artist and landscape painter. He was a well known artist in Western Canada (Alberta and British Columbia) who painted mostly in the foothills and mountainous areas of those provinces. He was the Chief Preparator and Registrar, and was in charge of installations at the Edmonton Art Gallery (from 1966 to 1980), now known as the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA). He was not a religious man in the traditional church sense of the word, and was not baptized. He believed in nature and was often quoted as saying, "Nature is my church." He expressed his belief and feeling about nature through his art. He spent a great deal of time every summer out in the foothills of Alberta painting, taking photos and fishing. He said he was recording scenes of nature that were going to disappear because of logging and development, and in some respects this prediction has come true.




Education


He was born in Galloway, British Columbia in 1937 and attended the Alberta College of Art in Calgary for two years in the early 1960s. Due to finances he did not graduate but continued a quest in the love of learning about art for his entire life.




Painting


Over the course of his career he had 11 solo exhibitions and participated in 23 group exhibitions. He has art in numerous public collections and his work has many private collectors.
Solo exhibitions:

Downstairs Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1975
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1976
Downstairs Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1977
Downstairs Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1979
Mira Goddard Gallery, Toronto ON, 1981
Mira Goddard Gallery, Toronto ON, 1982
Mira Goddard Gallery, Calgary AB, 1982
Mira Goddard Gallery, Calgary AB, 1983
Hett Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1983
Kathleen Laverty Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1990
Bugara Kmet Gallery Edmonton AB, 1994
Group exhibitions:

Civic Centennial Exhibition, Edmonton AB, 1967
Alberta 1973, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1973
Summer '74, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1974
Alberta Realists, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1974
Prairie 74, Painters of The Prairies, Saidye Bonfmon Center, Montreal QB, 1974
Changing Visions Canadian Landscapes Traveling Exhibition, Edmonton Art Gallery & Art Gallery of Ontario, 1976
Index 77, 1977
Ron Myren & Terry Fenton, Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary AB, 1978
Alberta Collects Alberta Art, Beaver House, Edmonton AB, 1978
Art Works from the Alberta Art Foundation to Japan, 1979
The Alberta Landscape, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1979
Horizons West, Shell Travelling Exhibition, 1979
Painting in Alberta an Historical Survey, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB. 1980
Alberta Culture Exhibition, Beaver House, Edmonton AB. 1980
The Big Picture, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1981
Fall Opening, Hett Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1983
Fall Exhibition, Kathleen Laverty Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1986
Selections from The Edmonton Art Gallery Permanent Collection, McMullen Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, 1987
An Alberta Sense of Place, Selections from the Alberta Arts Foundation at McMullen Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, 1987
Alberta Drawings, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton AB, 1991
Masterful Drawings, Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, 1993
The Works Visual Arts Festival, University of Alberta Exhibit, Edmonton AB, 2001
Work sold at Jasper Park Originals, Jasper Park Lodge AB, 1995–1998
Out On A Limb, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Sept. 2011 – Feb. 2012




Public collections


The following is a list of companies and government agencies that have Ron Myren's art in their collections:

Alberta Arts Foundation (eight paintings)
Art Gallery of Alberta (seven paintings)
University of Alberta (four paintings)
Northern Jubilee Auditorium Art Collection (three paintings)
Alberta Government Art Collections
Bank of Nova Scotia
Canada Council Art Bank
Canadian Department of External Affairs
Edmonton Public School Board
Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital Edmonton
Gulf Oil
Imperial Oil
Red Deer College
Richardson Securities
Seeal-Alcan Ltd.
Shell Oil
Trimac Corporation




Teaching


Edmonton Art Gallery
Drawing #1 and #2, 1970–1973
University of Alberta Extension Dept.
Painting #1 and #2, Barrhead, AB, 1981–1982
Landscape Painting, Westlock, AB, 1981–1982
Pen and Ink Drawing, Camrose, AB, 1981–1982
Edmonton Art Gallery
Painting, 1983–1987
Ottwell Community League, Friends of Ottwell
Painting, 1987–1989




References






External links


Search for "Myren" to see several paintings, at Alberta E-museum
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