Cyril Hirtle

Cyril Hirtle. Painter. Hirtle’s Beach. Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. Active 1990’s.

Cyril Hirtle was a painter of naive landscapes and seascapes; pictures of the Nova Scotia that he grew up in and where he spent his life. His paintings are imaginative and striking. He is cited in A Joyous vision*.

Cyril Hirtle. With some of his paintings:

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A painting of a Fisherman by Cyril Hirtle:

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Ref: The Upper Canadian Jan/Feb 1993.

*Ref: Nova Scotia Folk Art Festival Society, A Joyous Vision – Contemporary Folk Art in Nova Scotia (1995).

Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).