Paul Goranson was
born in Vancouver. He studied under Frederick Horsman Varley at the
Vancouver School of Art and the British Columbia College of Art. Before
the war he worked as a commercial artist and executed several commissions
with the artists Orville Norman Fisher and Edward John Hughes.
He enlisted as
an artist-painter in the Royal Canadian Air Force in December 1941.
He was then posted to Ontario and the Maritimes. He was appointed
an official war artist in February 1943 and sent overseas with the
mission to depict the activities of the Bomber Command. His postings
would lead him to Tunisia and Italy in the month of August 1943. After
that he followed the operations of the Second Tactical Air Force in
North-West Europe, from July 1944 to spring 1945. He was demobilized
in September 1947. Paul Goranson died on August 3rd, 2002.
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