Well-known artists and long-time Dorval residents, John Collins and Thomas de Souza, will exhibit their works at the Dorval Cultural Centre from May 16 to 30, 2007.
Born in Washington, D.C. in 1917, John Collins came to the Montreal region at the age of two. He attended school in Montreal including art studies at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Sir George Williams College. For more than forty years he was editorial cartoonist for the Montreal Gazette and while there illustrated editor Edgar Andrew Collard's historical column "All our Yesterdays". His sketches have illustrated five of Mr. Collard's books. The artist has won two National Newspaper Awards for cartooning and two national watercolour awards. He is an ex-president of The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and an honorary member of The Canadian Association of Editorial Cartoonists. A member of The Lakeshore Association of Artists, he has paintings in public and private collections here and abroad.

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