Artist: Gissur Eliasson (1913-1980) - Designor of the Viking Statue in Gimli, Manitoba.

Subject: Abstract

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 32 inches x 40 inches Canvas, 41.5 inches x 33.5 inches Framed

Biography: Gissur Eliasson (1913-1980) Artist, educator. Born in 1913, he received his early education at Ardal School. In 1939, he graduated from the Winnipeg School of Art having studied under L. L. Fitzgerald. He was a member of the SchoolÂ’s teaching staff when, in 1950, it became the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba. He started the School’s classes for children on Saturday mornings and was Director of the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Painting in the Park. He designed the Viking statue at Gimli. He was the senior painting instructor at the Neepawa Festival of Arts for six years, a member of the Manitoba Arts Council, Manitoba Society of Artists, Education Committee of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and First Lutheran Church. He retired from the University in 1978. On 12 June 1944, he married Elvera Eliasson (1915-1993) and they had four children. He died at Winnipeg on 8 June 1980.

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