Born on June 13, 1924, and passed on December 27, 1990, Harold Town was a Canadian artist, well known for his abstract work and a member of Painters Eleven, coining the name himself for their first show at the Roberts Gallery in 1954. Having trained at the Western Technical-Commercial School and the Ontario College of Art (1942-1944), his early work took inspiration from the likes of Pablo Picasso and Willem de Kooning. His exposure to works in the Royal Ontario Museum inspired his commercial work and his first foray into abstractionism. Town developed a new monotype print which he named Single Autographic Prints, in the 60s, which won him awards in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, Santiago, and Chile. Made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1968, Town was also an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1958. Exhibiting on behalf of Canada at the Venice Biennale in 1956 and 1964, and at the São Paulo Art Biennial in 1957, where he received the Arno Award.