Peter Winchell Sager

Peter Winchell Sager was born in Vancouver in 1920. He went to high school in Vancouver at Lord Byng, where he a pupil of Beatrice Lennie. Afterwards he was a pupil at the B.C. College of Arts, and at the Beatrice Lennie School of Sculpture, but was mainly self-taught. He was a sculptor and a printmaker using linoleum blocks.

He exhibited in the Seattle Art Museum's annual Northwest Artists exhibitions in 1937 and 1939.

He exhibited his work at the Toronto Art Gallery in 1939, the Northwest Printmakers in 1939, and with the Canadian Society of Graphic Artists. He showed work in the annual B.C. Artists exhibitions in 1935, 1936, 1938, and 1939. He had solo exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1937 and 1940. He exhibited a bronze sculpture at the Montreal Museum in 1964. He was living in Vancouver at that time.

Sager died in Toronto in 1985, according to information provided by Mr. Edward G. Margrett, who donated his research file on Sager to the Sarnia Art Gallery.

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