GUELPH, Ontario - Canadian realist painter Ken Danby, best known for his 1972 painting "At the Crease," depicting a masked hockey goaltender, has died. He was 67.
Greg McKee, manager of the Danby Studio in Guelph, Ontario, said Danby was believed to have suffered a heart attack while canoeing Sunday in Canada's Algonquin Park in northern Ontario. However, the official cause of death will not be known until an autopsy is completed.
Danby, born March 6, 1940, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, has been recognized as one of the world's foremost realist painters.
"Ken Danby gave back to his country in many ways," Michael Burtch, director and curator of the Art Gallery of …
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