Bart Pragnell

SKNAC bio: Bartley Pragnell was born in 1907 in Caron, Saskatchewan. He studied the Winnipeg School of Art under artist L. L. FitzGerald, then taught fine and applied art at Moose Jaws Technical High School and became Director of Art Studies and Curriculum for Moose Jaw Schools. During WWII, Pragnell served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during WWII, and following the war, studied at the Montreal Artists' School, then summer sessions at the Chicago Art Institute and with American artist Hans Hoffman in New York. In 1949 he became Principal at the Winnipeg School of Art and in 1951 was appointed Professor of Art at Goddard College in Vermont. In 1959 he returned to Canada as a lecturer in art in Lethbridge, Alberta, before moving to Edmonton, Alberta to become a Professor of Art at the University of Alberta from 1963 until his death in 1966.