1940. Eynsham Hall, Oxfordshire, UK. Tony’s birthplace.
1940
1948. Tony in his London elementary school days when his interests in drawing and history first surfaced.
1948
1958-1959. Montreal’s old Ecole des Beaux Arts. Where Tony took some of his first art-related studies.
1958-1959
1965. Tony sketching in Old Montreal.
1965
1966. “Executive members of Junior Associates” – Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Strawberries and Champagne Romanoff Event at the Ritz-Carlton. Montreal “Gazette” Photo
1966
1967. Tony on the grounds of Montreal’s Exp ’67.
1967
1982. Tony Batten, Exhibition Chairperson at a CSPWC Gala Exhibition in Toronto’s O’Keefe Centre. Left – Right: Tony, Sheila Ogilvie, Osvald Timmas and war-artist Will Ogilvie.
1982
1982. Julius & Mrs. Griffith, Tony, A. J. Casson, Barbara Roe Hicklin & Ann McIntosh Duff. CSPWC Members Exhibition – O’Keefe Centre.
1982
1982. Tony with Lt Governor John B. Aird who was the Patron of the significant exhibition.
1982
1983. Tony’s studio space.
1983
1985. Diamond Jubilee Committee, 1985. The Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour. John B. Aird, Lt. Gov of Ontario, Wil Ogilvie, Julius Griffith, Cynthia Kemerer and Anthony J. Batten.
1985
1985. At the Scarborough Board’s acclaimed Art Camp staged annually near Bancroft.
1985
1986. First year as the resident artist at the Canadian School at Cambridge, England.
1986
1986. Day of Rest, (Bay St. Lawrence, Cape Breton) watercolour by Tony that is housed in Windsor Castle’s Royal Collection.
1986
1986. The Prince Albert Print Room of the Royal Library at Windsor Castle where much of the Queen’s Canadian collection is permanently housed.
1986
1987. “Sold out” before the doors opened! Tony’s initial show at the Whitten Gallery in King City.
1987
1987. The Whitten Gallery in King City setting up an early solo exhibition.
1987
July 17, 1987. Presentation by Art Eggleton, Mayor of Toronto, of a watercolour by Anthony J. Batten C.S.P.W.C. to their Royal Highnesses, The Duke and Duchess of York, during their first official state visit to Metropolitan Toronto.
1987
1988. Tony was the official Graphic Artist for the The Ballet Ball.
1988
1995. At the annual general meeting of the CSPWC. Tony, president with former president, Doris McCarthy.
1995
1995. A CSPWC “New Members Evening” at Tony’s home. Past presidents include John Bennett, Doris McCarthy, Rudi Stussi & Marg Squire.
1995
1998. Tony and other retiring colleagues at their McLean Estate reception at Glendon College.
1998
Summer 2000. Jurying Day for the CSPWC Royal Collection Project, Trinity College, Toronto. Left to Right: Diana Jervis-Reed (cultural attache Canada House, London) with Bill Sherman, Mary Ann Ludlam, Ray Cattell and Shirley Barrie (CSPWC Administrator), Tony, in the back, co-ordinated the project.
2000
2000. The Honorable Hilary Weston, the Lt. Gov. of Ontario and Tony at the 75th anniversary of the CSPWC.
2000
2000. The team of credited matt artists that worked on the film “Thomas the Tank Engine” in post-production.
2000
2001. The Prince of Wales, CSPWC President Neville Clarke and Tony share stories.
2001
2001. The gang from the CSPWC at Canada House-Royal Collection reception.
2001
Tony delivering the address at Canada House. HRH Prince Charles is on the right.
2001
2001. Tony and Linda Kemp celebrate at London’s Ritz Hotel, following the Canada House reception.
2001
December, 2001. Prince Charles’ guests leaving Highgrove to return to London. Left to Right: E. J. Hunter, Diana Jervis-Reed, Linda Kemp, Neville Clarke, Ruth Sawatsky, Wendy Hoffman, Vivien Thierfelder, Tony Batten, Ross Munk. Photo by Jean Pederson.
2001
2002. Receiving the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, from the Secretary of State, Honorable Dr. Carolyn Bennet.
2002
2002. Recipients of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, Tony with famed contralto Maureen Forrester.
2002
2003. Tony, Chair of the National Ballet’s art committee, 2002-2005, with artistic director, Karen Kain.
2003
October 14, 2003. Tony jurying a show for the East Central Ontario Art Association.
2003
2005. The guys cleaning up the formal garden at The English Convent in Bruges, Belgium. This was “home base” for a two week painting trip.
2005
2005. The English Convent in Bruges, Belgium. Tony shows some of his sketches to a few of the “host” nuns.
2005
2005. Tony and his committee hang the final National Ballet Invitational Art Show at the Hummingbird Centre.
2005
2005. Tony Batten conducting a workshop at The Toronto Watercolour Society.
2005
2006. Tony on Beechey Island, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic.
2006
2006. The group of artists who went on the 2006 Arctic trip.
2006
Summer 2006. LT-Governor of Alberta Norman Kwong with his wife and the CSPWC Executive Members at Calgary’s National Watercolour Symposium.
2006
August, 2006. Registration Day at the Royal Ontario Museum. Tony on the desk for his classes in watercolour techniques.
2006
2008. Writer and poet Kildare Dobbs being welcomed as the keynote speaker at the initial “Treasures” show.
2008
2008. On a “North of Superior” painting trip.
2008
2008. Tony with Heidi Burkhardt and Maurice Snelgrove on the shore of Lake Superior.
2008
2008. Tony on a painting trip to Newfoundland.
2008
2008. The PORDS at the opening of their 2008 exhibition at the John B. Aird Gallery.
2008
2008. General view of exhibition at the Aird with Tony’s double panel of Trinity, Newfoundland.
2008
2008. Detail of installation at the Joseph Carrier Gallery.
2008
2008. On a sketching tip to Jerusalem.
2008
2008. Installation in Yorkville. Gallery set up for “Bloor Street Entertains” charity evening.
2008
2008. Gala dinner in support of AIDS related charities.
2008
R2009. Tony receiving his CSPWC Life Member Diploma from Hon. David Onley, Lt. Governor of Ontario.
2009
2009. Tony with his award winning watercolour at the “Treasures” show.
2009
Treasures 2009, John B. Aird Gallery. A salute to 10 CSPWS’s ‘treasured’ life members. Linda Finn, Jane Hunter, Margaret Squire, Mary Ann Ludlam, Tony Batten, June Montegomery, Brent Laycock, Rudolf Stussi, Michael Cleary (absent: John Hanson).
2009
2009. Former student Alice Reed and Tony at the Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Watercolour Symposium. Alice is a very well known artist and conservationist in the Maritime Provinces.
2009
2009. Tony on a gallery tour in Rome.
2009
2009. Receiving the SCA’s Stevens Award from Dr Patrick Shaw Cable, Chief Curator at the Art Gallery of Hamilton.
2009
2009. Tony with his award winning acrylic “On the Grand Tour, the Doge’s Palace, Venice” at the Art Gallery of Hamilton.
2009
2010. A visitor with Tony’s “Aegean Blue” at Toronto’s Roberts Gallery.
2010
2010. Tony on a painting trip to Prince William Sound, Alaska.
2010
Summer 2010. Sketching in Spoleto’s historic Papal Fortress – The Rocca, Italy.
2010
Summer 2010. Visiting the legendary studio of Antonio Canova in Rome.
2010
2011. L to R: Theatre impresario David Mirvish, theatre producer Marlene Smith, singer/stage personality Dinah Christie, A & L President Diane Kruger and Tony Batten at the 2011 presentation of the Arts & Letters Award to Marlene Smith.
2011
The PORDS returned to Kim’s family compound in Chatham on Cape Cod. Beautiful painting locations!
2011
2012. Tony with the in-house poster for his solo show at the historic Arts & Letters Club, Toronto. Poster design by Andrew Sookrah.
2012
2012. “Art in the County” jurors. Picton, Prince Edward County. L to R: Andrew Benyei, Zora Buchanan and Tony were the 2012 jurors for this important regional show.
2012
September, 2012. Leonard Preyra, Nova Scotia’s Minister of Communities, Culture and Heritage, Tony and Ed Huner, curator of the SCA’s major members exhibition at the Halifax Club.
2012
December, 2012. Tony receiving the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal from Ontario’s Minister of Culture and Citizenship.
2012
December 13, 2012. The formal photograph of the recipients of the Diamond Jubilee Medal, Queen’s Park Government Buildings, Toronto.
2012
December 13, 2012. Diamond Jubilee Medal recipients. Tony with famed actress and activist Shirley Douglas.
2012
2012. Tony, Kim and Heidi finishing some paintings at St Andrew’s Hillcrest House, N.B., rainy weather having driven them to seek shelter.
2012
The hard life of an artist. Lobster dinner on the garden porch of Hillcrest House with hosts Bev and Lola Boyles.
2012
2012. Hanging day for “Mixing Genres”. Lynn Bartrand, Marilyn Harding, Tony.
2012
2013. Tony on the floor of the House of Commons as he started his Parliamentary Project.
2013
2013. House of Commons Curator, David Monaghan at the Arts & Letters Club where he spoke on Canada’s Parliamentary collections.
2013
August, 2014. Tony demonstrating at the “PAPER THINGS GALLERY”, Yorkville, ON.
2014
October, 2015. Arts & Letters Club’s inaugural NEXT exhibition. Lt-Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Lynn Bartrand and Tony who MC’d the opening.
2015
2015. Judy Smith, owner of Toronto’s Westmount Gallery, with Tony during one of his solo shows.
2015
December, 2015. Salon d’Hiver Show. Tony, Kat, Heidi, Kim and Maurice.
2015
2015. Members of the Roy Thomson/Massey Hall board acknowledging the placing of work by Tony in their collections. Elisabeth Legge who donated the framing is at right.
2015
Tony drawing in the comfort of the Senate’s Foyer.
2015
2016. The PORDS with host Taylor Statten at Camp Ahmek, Canoe Lake, Algonquin Park. An invitational painting trip in the heart of Tom Thomson country.
2016
2017. Batten has undertaken a number of design and art installation commissions over the years.
2017
2017. The artist’s terrace which has been the focus of several design-related receptions.
2017
2017. The Arts & Letters Club artists who made it into the NEXT2 exhibition. L to R: Tony, Ulla Nystrom, Michael Zarowsky and Peter Large.
2017
2018. Post opening breakfast at the Ganaoque Inn. L to R. Tony, Alan Stein, John Fletcher, Donald and Judy Raymer.
2018
2018. Warren Clements, Rudy Stussi, Tom Forrestall, Mary O’Regan and others at the Arts & Letters Club.
2018
2018 Solo Show at the Westmount Gallery.
2018
Old friends reunited in 2019 Tony with Lindsay and Vic Suthren at the Arts & Letters Club.
2019
2019. Tony’s in-house studio.space
2019
2020. CEO Corrine Rusch-Drutz unveils painting gifted as a memorial to Phyllis Rash at Toronto’s Kensington Hospice.
2020
2020. Tony’s CSPWC Diploma Collection work being reviewed during the Society’s recent re-photographing of the heritage collection. Curator Gill Cameron, left and volunteer Henrietta Verbaan.
2020
2020. A beautiful Nova Scotia home that showcases a number of significant Batten paintings.
2020