David Cantine

David Cantine
Cantine at an exhibition of Peter Hide's sculptures outside the Royal Alberta Museum, June 2008.
Born	1939 (age 85–86) Jackson, Michigan, USA
Education	University of Iowa
Known for	Painting Drawing
Notable work	Light Primary Still Life
Movement	post-modernism
Spouse	Karen Cantine

David Cantine (born 1939) is a Canadian painter, best known for consistently painting pictures using the same composition for the last forty years of his career. ^[1] Cantine was born in Jackson, Michigan, and went to school at the University of Iowa, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962, and a Master of Arts degree in 1964. ^{[2] [ failed verification ]} In 1965 he began teaching drawing and painting at the University of Alberta, until retiring from his position in 1996. ^[3]

Cantine began to experiment with abstraction in the 1970s, including minimalist, post-painterly abstraction. ^[4]

References

1. "Artist's statement, Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2010". Archived from the original on 31 May 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
2. Record Details, Green and Yellow, 1983, by David Cantine, University of Alberta Art Collection. Archived 21 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
3. "Things with Tops". oenogallery.com. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
4. Roald Nasgaard, Abstract Painting in Canada, page 313