The Collection of Gale and Henry Beaumont – Selected Works

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The Collection of Gale and Henry Beaumont - Selected Works

Courtesy of the Gallery.

Henry and Gale Beaumont met on a blind date that resulted in 50 happy years of marriage, 5 children, 10 grandkids and a lively home filled with art and music. The Beaumonts’ began acquiring art early in their marriage. Over the years they amassed a large collection that tells a story of their great appreciation and support of the arts in Alberta.

Henry Beaumont was raised in Lethbridge, Alta., he attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., and then law school at the University of Alberta, graduating in 1956. He practiced with the same Calgary firm, Beaumont Church, until he retired in 2015 at the age of 83. Henry said his initial interest in art was sparked by his wife, Gale, a student at the Ontario College of Art. "I wanted to learn about the things she was interested in. So, I was told to read J. Russell Harper’s Painting in Canada twice, and to avoid buying any art for a year.” 

Beaumont, also passionate about jazz and politics, counted many Alberta artists and gallery owners as close friends and helped establish the Alberta Foundation for the Arts in the 1970s.

Highlights of the exhibition will include works by selected celebrated artists.

Maxwell Bates, J.W. Beatty, FM Bell-Smith, David Blackwood, Berthe de Clayes, Alan Collier, Illingworth Kerr, A.C. Leighton, Luke Lindoe, John Lyman, Helen Mackie, Mable May, Robert McInnis, Lilias Newton, Marion Nicoll, Harold Nix, W.J. Phillips, Robert Pilot, Jack Shadbolt, John Snow, W.L Stevenson.