====== Pollock, Robert George ====== 
 (7 Nov. 1915-1 March 1997), artist. (Bob Pollock, R.G. Pollock) Born at Maxville, GC. Parents: Mr and Mrs R.W. Pollock. R.W. Pollock was manager of the Bank of Ottawa in Maxville from 1914 to 1916. Robert George Pollock grew up in Winnipeg, and much of his life was spent there. He was a flying officer in the RCAF in the Second World War. He was an artist, described as self-taught, who specialized in prairie scenes, and whose work was widely sold and sometimes appeared on Christmas cards. The subjects included wildlife. He died at his home in Winnipeg. He was married in 1940. (there were children) The Canadian War Museum in Ottawa has four of his paintings: two oils entitled “Painting Deck Fittings” and “HMCS Yukon” and two watercolours entitled “Argus” and “CFAV Lawrenceville (Harbour Tug).”


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<fs small>Obituary (with portrait), undated clipping (from Winnipeg press) * private information * information, with press clippings, from Manitoba Society of Artists * notices, Winter //GN// 11 March 1992, 2 April 1997 * //Maxville (1991) //, 352, 788 * letter 16 Jan. 1998 to pr author from Canadian War Museum * Harold Lyon, “Against the Prairie Sky: the Realism of Bob Pollock’s Rural Landscapes Are [sic] Graced by the Ever-Changing Light and Colours of the Prairies,” unidentified publication of Nov. 1982, pp. 78-80 (mainly reproductions of his paintings), copy in files of the Canadian War Museum
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