While talking with Max Foran about Cowboy Culture I say a book on his shelves on an artist called Stanford Perrot

While talking with Max Foran about Cowboy Culture I saw a book on his shelves on an artist called Stanford Perrot. The book was from the UofC Press and written by Max.

Q: Tell me about Stanford Perrot.

Max: Stanford Perrot was a boy who grew up in Calgary. Was one of the first students to go through the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art in the 1930’s and was taught by HG Glyde. A very good student, always showed a lot of promise and after a short stint teaching public school he was hired in the mid 40’s to teach at the same school that he went to.

He stayed there from 1947 to 1974 and he retired as the head of ACA. In those 27 years he worked very closely with the head, before he became head, Illingsworth Kerr. And he worked closely with Illingsworth Kerr to build up the art department and the provincial department of art, to become ACA.

He was also a master teacher. Probably the best and he influenced a whole generation of Alberta artists. Any Alberta artist who was anyone probably studied and took classes from Stanford Perrot. Outstanding, brilliant teacher and a marvelous watercolourist in his own right.

Who knows what he might have become as an artist had teaching not got in the way? Teaching took it all out of him and he painted and he was very, very good. But who knows what he could have become. But he would not of had it any other way, he was a teacher first and foremost. And I would say has had more influence on art education in this province than any other individual in the 20^th century.

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