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Harold Beament studied at the Ontario College of Art. He then continued a career as both a commercial artist and art teacher. Beament taught at the school at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from 1936. Beament exhibited annually, with rare exception, at Royal Canadian Academy exhibitions from 1924 until 1953 and only slightly less regularly at the Art Association of Montreal shows. He was President of the RCA from 1964- 1967. 

 In 1974, legendary Montreal art dealer William Watson in his Recollections, wrote of the years after 1932 when he relocated his gallery up to Sherbrooke Street to an address literally next door to where today Galerie Alan Klinkhoff is located: “[O]ne of the artists whose work we consistently showed during these years was Harold Beament. He is still one of my oldest friends- an artist, sailor, bon vivant, and humorist.”[1].

Laing Gallery in Toronto had solo exhibitions of Harold Beament’s paintings. Of Beament, Blair wrote; “He was among the earlier artists to make trips to the Arctic, painting the Inuit fishing from their kayaks, seal hunts on the ice floes and other Arctic subjects. Harold and my father were good friends and the artist always came to Toronto for his exhibition openings”[2].

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Footnotes: 

[1] William R. Watson, Retrospective: Recollections of a Montreal Art Dealer (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974), 21 

[2]. Blair G. Laing, Memoirs of an Art Dealer, Vol. 2 (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1982)