Greg Curnoe: Cycling Artist
Road bikes are beautiful objects.
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| Curnoe: self portrait |
The late, great Canadian artist Greg Curnoe understood this deeply. A dedicated cyclist, he made them a key focus of his art. He did some spectacularly beautiful, life-size paintings of his custom-built Mariposa.
Greg Curnoe was killed in 1992 while on a club ride, hit by a guy in pickup truck.
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| One of Curnoe's Mariposa paintings. |
Check out his work if you ever get the chance. The lovely Museum London in London, Ontario, has a great collection. London, by the way, has a huge cycling culture, and has the only velodrome in eastern Canada, the Forest City Velodrome.
We had a print of one of Curnoe's pieces hanging proudly at Southpaw Cycles, Ottawa seen on page 2 of the papyrus, here: http://www.glebereport.ca/Archives/Glebe_Report_1976_06_05_v04_n06.pdf
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