Bertram Brooker
Bertram Richard Brooker (March 31, 1888 –
March 22, 1955) was a Canadian writer, painter, musician, and advertising
agency executive.
Born in Croydon, England, to Richard Brooker and
Mary Ann (Skinner) Brooker, he moved to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba
in 1905 with his family. In 1913 he rented a movie theatre in Neepawa,
Manitoba. In 1914 he became editor of the Portage Review, a local
newspaper. In 1915 he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Engineers in
Winnipeg. After the war he worked for the Winnipeg Tribune, the
Regina Leader Post and the Winnipeg Free Press.
He moved to Toronto in 1921. In 1921 he joined
the staff of Marketing Magazine, becoming its editor and publisher
from 1924 until 1926. In 1923 he published his first book, Subconscious
Selling. In 1929 he joined the staff of the J.J. Gobbons Advertising
Agency. He won the 1936 Governor General's Awards for Think of the
Earth. In 1940 he joined the staff of the MacLaren Advertising Co.
He is regarded as the first Canadian abstract impressionist.
In 1913 he married Mary Aurilla (“Rill”)
Porter.
The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes
that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the
world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even
draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend
to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces
can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from
the existing paintings.h
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