Artworks

Grant Munro (1923 - 2017)

National Film Board of Canada (NFB) commissioner Claude Jolicoeur spoke of Grant Munro to Fred Lanigan of the Toronto Globe and Mail. “Grant Munro was a Canadian animation legend…. part of the first generation of young animators that Norman McLaren hired, trained and worked with, as the NFB was starting up in the early 1940s.” [1]. Langan continued writing that when McLaren was visiting the Ontario College of Art on a recruitment tour of art schools for his animation group at the NFB, Group of Seven member Franklin Carmichael “insisted he meet Grant Munro.” [2] Quoting a colleague of Munro’s in McLaren’s animation department, “Norman saw something in Grant, and he went on to be his greatest collaborator.” [3]

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Footnotes: 

[1] Fred Langan, "Animation legend Grant Munro left a mark on global industry". The Globe and Mail, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/animation-legend-grant-munro-left-mark-on-global-industry/article37449775/. Accessed 30/03/2022.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Ibid.