Sculpting artist Bill Reid

Bill Reid

Living place: Victoria

Birthday: 12-1-1920 (104 years old)

Global rank: #62122

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Sculpting artist Bill Reid profile

Who is Sculpting artist Bill Reid?
Canadian artist who combines European and indigenous styles in his jewelry, paintings, and sculptures. Canada $20 banknotes used their works for their 2004 until the 2012 Canada Journey series.
His co-sculpture, "The Spirit of Haida Gwaii," was erected at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He studied design at university and began creating his own art jewelry in the 1950s.

Family life info

He was born in Victoria, British Columbia to a German-Scotland American father and a (native Canadian) mother Haida. He came down, on his mother's side, from members of a Pacific Coast First Nations tribe, and he learned about the jewelry of his people from his grandfather.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Sculpting artist Bill Reid?
He and Agnes Martin are both famous Canadian artists.

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Summary of Bill Reid profile

When was Sculpting artist Bill Reid born?
Bill Reid birthday 12-1-1920 (at the age of 104).
Where is Sculpting artist Bill Reid's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Bill Reid was born in Victoria, of Canada. is a Sculpting artist, whose Zodiac is Capricorn, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Goat. Bill Reid's global rank is 62122 and whose rank is 80 in list of famous Sculpting artist.
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Events in 1920 and 12-1

Events in the world in the birth year of Bill Reid

  • U.S. Dept. of Justice "red hunt" nets thousands of radicals; aliens deported.
  • Women's suffrage (19th) amendment ratified. Background: Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
  • Treaty of Sèvres dissolves Ottoman Empire.
  • Mexican president Venustiano Carranza is assassinated.

Birthday Bill Reid (12-1) in history

  • Day 12-1 year 1773: The first public museum in the United States was established in Charleston, South Carolina
  • Day 12-1 year 1896: H. L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It was a hand with a bullet in it.
  • Day 12-1 year 1915: The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
  • Day 12-1 year 1932: Hattie W. Caraway, a democrat from Arkansas became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
  • Day 12-1 year 1964: One month after Zanzibar became independent, the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party was overthrown in a violent coup.
  • Day 12-1 year 1991: A divided Congress gave President Bush the go-ahead on the Persian Gulf War.
  • Day 12-1 year 1998: Nineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.
  • Day 12-1 year 2010: Haiti is dealt a catastrophic blow when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the country's capital. It is the region's worst earthquake in 200 years. The number of fatalities were between 46,000 and 85,000 people.
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