Albert F. (Al) Ranger

Saskatchewan NAC Auction House Biography and Notes

Albert Ranger was born in Nanaimo, B.C. in 1935. His art career began in 1965 when he was hired by Sears as Advertising & Display Manager, and also worked as a freelance commercial artist in his spare time. Ranger's first one-man show was held at Kelowna's Dow Reid Gallery in 1973, and he began his full-time career as a fine artist in 1979 when he retired from Sears. He established his studio gallery at Nanoose Bay, north of Nanaimo. A prolific artist in watercolour, pen and ink, charcoal and acrylics, he produced more than a thousand works of art during his lifetime, many of which are held in private collections in Canada, the United States, England, Germany and Mexico. He also produced one hard-cover and four soft-cover books about places in British Columbia, each illustrated with sketches and trip notes. Albert Ranger passed away in 2012.