Pitts, Arthur David John

PITTS, Arthur David John, artist (b 1889, London, England; d 1972, Saanich). After leaving school at age 14, he apprenticed as a commercial artist and worked on railway construction in S Africa, then came to Canada in 1914. He was living in VANCOUVER when WWI began, and he enlisted in the Canadian army and spent a year at the front before his arms were shattered by a shell; in 1917 he returned to BC to convalesce. Afterward, while working as a commercial artist in Vancouver, he developed his...

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