Lot # : 27 - Vintage Print ERIC RIORDON Framed Behind Glass

Vintage Print ERIC RIORDON Framed Behind Glass. 14" x 13" Born in 1906 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Eric Riordon moved with his family to Montreal in 1908. He was educated at McGill University. After studying charcoal drawing for a year at the École des beaux-arts of Montreal, he went to Paris in 1932 where he trained at the Grande Chaumière and Académie Julian, then travelled and painted extensively in Europe. On his return in Montreal he painted in the Laurentians. He had an early interest in the sea and in 1940 joined Royal Canadian Navy; took a seven months training course to become Lieutenant and served as an executive officer in Montreal before being posted to the East coast for sea duty. He was promoted to second in command of a corvette engaged in anti-submarine and convoy duty. At the end of the war he held the rank of lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve. He snatched moments from his duties during this period to paint a series of wartime marines later used for a publication about the Canadian Navy at war. He died in 1948.