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==Biography==
[[File:A l'Oeuvre C'est Notre Guerre - DPLA - ef774e614b4187088e55ec625b6a67c3.jpg|thumb|right|220px|World War II-era poster by Eric Aldwinckle in the collection of the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives of the United States]]]]
Born in England in 1909 but sent to Canada in his teens, he apprenticed with printers in [[Toronto]] in the 1920s and learned the graphic design trade along the way.{{sfn|MacDonald|1967|p=5-6}} He struck out on his own in 1930, and built a successful design practice on corporate work and illustration, including several covers for ''[[Maclean's]]'' and illustrating for ''Mayfair'' magazine.<ref name="index" /> During this period he was active in Toronto's [[Arts and Letters Club]],
In [[World War II]] he registered as a [[conscientious objector]], and created several well-known war posters, then became a camouflage designer in [[Halifax (former city)|Halifax]], [[Nova Scotia]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Creative Dialogue Across the Ocean: Eric Aldwinckle's Letters to Harry Somers |url=http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/pw20c/case-study/creative-dialogue-across-ocean-eric-aldwinckles-letters-harry-somers?page=8 |website=pw20c.mcmaster.ca |publisher=McMaster University Library |accessdate=7 July 2020}}</ref><ref name="war ">{{cite web |last1=Aldwinckle |first1=Eric|title=sketch drawing, RETURNED PRISONER OF WAR, NO. 2 |url=https://www.warmuseum.ca/collections/artifact/1018158/ |website=www.warmuseum.ca |publisher=Canadian War Museum, Ottawa |accessdate=6 July 2020}}</ref> In late 1942 he heard that [[Ottawa]] was looking for volunteers for its new [[War Artist]] program. He applied and was accepted, receiving a commission in the [[Royal Canadian Air Force]]. He attained the rank of Flight Lieutenant while covering RCAF operations in Coastal Command and the 2nd Tactical Air Force.<ref name="war " />{{sfn|MacDonald|1967|p=5-6}} During the years 1943-6 he produced over one hundred drawings and paintings in watercolours and oils that remain the property of The Crown and reside permanently with the [[Canadian War Museum]].
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*{{cite book |last1=LeBlanc |first1=Michael |title=Nothing Uninteresting The Work and Life of Eric Aldwinckle |date= 2016 |publisher=Blurb, 2016 |isbn=9781367458697 }}
*{{cite book |last1=MacDonald |first1=Colin |title=A Dictionary of Canadian Artists |date=1967 |publisher=Canadian Paperbacks Publishing |location=Ottawa|edition=First|isbn=0919554113 }}
* {{cite book |last = McBurney |first = Margaret |title = The Great Adventure: 100 Years of the Arts and Letters Club |location=Toronto |publisher = Arts and Letters Club of Toronto |date = 2007 |url = https://archive.org/details/greatadventure100000mcbu |isbn=9780969458821 }}
*{{cite web |title=What two Canadian Artists saw in Russia, October 1, 1954 |url=https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1954/10/1/what-two-canadian-artists-saw-in-russia |website=archive.macleans.ca |publisher=[[Maclean's]] |accessdate=6 July 2020}}
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