Awards & Commissions

Tony was the 1996 recipient of the prestigious A. J. Casson Award Award for outstanding achievement in watercolour painting.

1979 Dominion Foundries & Steel (Dofasco) Purchase Award
1981 Corporation of the City of Toronto, Purchase Award
1983 Corporation of the City of Toronto, Purchase Award
C.K.O.C. Arts Hamilton, Purchase Award
1984 C.S.P.W.C. Award of Merit – The Curry Award
Crown Life Assurance, Purchase Award
1985 Weber Costello Ltd., Purchase Award
Corporation of the City of Toronto, Purchase Award
1986 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Calendar Commission
Grant Hall Society Honouree, Queen’s University, Kingston
1987 City of Toronto, “Royal Visit” Commission
Wardair – Commission for Pearson International Airport
1988 National Ballet of Canada – Graphic Artist for the Ballet Ball
1990 Canadian General Assurance Commission
1992 Norwich Union Life Insurance Commission
Recipient of the 125th Anniversary of Confederation Medal
1995 Lombard Canada Ltd. Commission
1996 Tony was the recipient of the 1996 A. J. Casson Award for outstanding achievement in watercolour painting.
2000 American West Airlines Commission
2001 Government of Canada Diploma, United Nations General Assembly International Year of The Volunteer
2002 Recipient of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal
Recipient of the C.S.P.W.C.’s Julius Griffith Award for outstanding contributions to the Arts
2006 Corporation of the City of Toronto Purchase Award
2007 Commission for the Avril Lavigne Promotional Video – MTV
2007 Elected Life Member of the C.S.P.W.C.
2009 Jarvis Sloan Award for Watercolour
2009 The Society of Canadian Artists, A. Stevens Award for Acrylics
2011 CSPWC‘S Presidents’ Award
2012 The Louis W. MacEachern Award, SCA elected members exhibition, Halifax Club, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2012 Recipient of The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (for volunteerism in the arts)
2014 Arabella Magazine prize winner “Landscape Competition”
2015 Society of Canadian Artists – Tony was made an “Honorary S.C.A. Member”.