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36 x 24 inches
The blue canopy Oil on canvas
Ablade Glover 1993
24 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas Born in Accra in what was then the Gold Coast (present-
2014 day Ghana), Glover did teacher training at Kwame
Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
(1957–58), before winning a scholarship to study textile
design at London's Central School of Art and Design
(1959–62).He returned to Ghana to teach for a while,
before another scholarship, given by Kwame Nkrumah,
enabled Glover to study art education at the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne (1964–65), where he began to use
the tool that shaped his technique when his teacher
suggested a palette knife to apply paint, rather than
brushes. Glover went on to further his education in the
US, first at Kent State University, where he earned his
master's degree, and then at Ohio State University where
he was awarded a PhD in 1974.
Returning to Ghana after receiving his doctorate,
Glover taught for the next two decades at the College of
Art in the University of Kumasi, becoming Department
Head and College Dean.
In 1998, he received the Flagstar Award by ACRAG
(the Arts Critics and Reviewers Association of Ghana),
and was also honoured with the distinguished alumni
award from the African-American Institute in New York.
He founded the Accra-based Artists Alliance Gallery,
which has roots in an earlier gallery he founded in the
1960s and in its new incarnation was opened by Kofi
Annan in 2008. As well as being an outlet for Glover's own
work, this gallery features the work of other significant
artists such as Owusu-Ankomah and George O. Hughes,
together with collectible local artifacts.
Selected Exhibitions Ablade Glover: 80th
Anniversary, October Gallery, London (3 July–2 August
2014) Transmission Part 2, Tasneem Gallery, Barcelona,
Spain (15 November 2012 – 30 March 2013) I See You,
Tasneem Gallery (6 July–17 November 2010) Ablade
Glover: 75 Year Anniversary, October Gallery, London (2
July–1 August 2009) Visions & Dreams, Tasneem Gallery
(13 March–31 May 2008)

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