Artist, educator.
Born at Sheffield, England on 14 February 1878, he attended the Sheffield Technical School of Art, Royal College of Art in London, and Académie Royale des Beaux Arts at Antwerp. He emigrated to Portland, Oregon to teach art but soon moved to Winnipeg where, in 1913, he was appointed director of the Art Department at Kelvin Technical High School. Fanshaw was noted as a teacher and as an exhibiting artist. He was a member of the Winnipeg School of Art’s Art Committee from 1926 to 1938. One of his favourite media was the colour block print. He and wife Beatrice Adams (1876-1961) had a son, Hubert Lorraine Fanshaw (1913-1985). He died at his St. James residence, 161 Lyle Street, on 11 August 1940 and was buried in the St. James Anglican Cemetery.
Birth registration [Hubert Lorraine Fanshaw], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registration [Hubert Valentine], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“H. V. Fanshaw, artist, dies,” Winnipeg Tribune, 12 August 1940, page 2.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
Hubert Lorraine Fanshaw, FindAGrave.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 1 February 2025
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