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TIMELINE OF WORK

 

Early One Man Shows

 

1967 The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto ON

 

1971 Pollock Gallery, Toronto ON

 

1973 Pollock Gallery, Toronto ON

Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg Manitoba

 

1975 Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg Manitoba

 

1976 Toronto Dominion Centre, Toronto ON

Wildlife Gallery, Toronto ON

Chapman Gallery, Sylvania Ohio

1977 Sandudusky Cultural Centre Ohio

Wildlife Gallery, Toronto ON

Chapman Gallery, Sylvania Ohio

Four Winds Gallery, Oakville, ON

 

1978 Zanesville Art Museum, Ohio

Chapman Gallery, Sylvania Ohio

Wildlife Gallery, Toronto ON

 

1979 Beckett Gallery, Hamilton ON

Chapman Gallery, Sylvania Ohio

Wildlife Gallery, Toronto ON

O’Brien’s Art Emporium, Scottsdale, Arizona

 

1980 Eaton’s Fine Art Gallery, Toronto, ON

Chapman Gallery, Sylvania Ohio

O’Brien’s Art Emporium, Scottsdale, Arizona

Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Ohio

McMichael Canadian Collection, Kleinburg, ON

 

1981 National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, ON

 

1982 O’Brien’s Art Emporium, Scottsdale, Arizona

Chapman Gallery, Sylvania Ohio

 

1983 Kortright Centre for Conservation, Kleinburg, ON

 

1984 O’Brien’s Art Emporium, Scottsdale, Arizona

Kortright Centre for Conservation, Kleinburg, ON

 

1986 Galerie Claude Lafitte, Montreal, Quebec

Chapman Gallery, Sylvania Ohio

 

1987 Pagurian Gallery, Toronto, ON

 

1988 Scrimshaw & co. Oakville, ON

 

1989 Scrimshaw & co. Oakville, ON

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2017 Grey Bruce Health Services Mementos Art Exhibit, Owen Sound, ON

 

Highlights

 

The Trumpeter Swan Reintroduction Project at Wye Marsh -

When the Huron inhabited the Wye Marsh 350 years ago Trumpeter Swans were common to the area. Almost extinct by the 1930’s the species is now listed as “vulnerable” by the World Wildlife Fund. Today, the Wye Marsh, as part of the Eastern Canada Trumpeter Swan Reintroduction Program, is bringing them back.

 

As a keen supporter of The Trumpeter Swan Reintroduction Program, Frank deMatteis was eager to demonstrate this support in a tangible way, by creating a work of art and donating it to the program. “Celebration of Trumpeters” depicts two Trumpeter Swans trumpeting their success at having banished an intruder and vividly conveys the nervous relief felt by the triumphant swans. It is beautiful in its precision and in the manner in which it communicates the energy of nature its self.

 

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Birds in Art Prospectus 19

“The Spirit of the Wild”  The World Wildlife Fund Art Auction and Royal Gala dinner with HRH Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh 1982