Born in
Luton, England, Glyde attended the
Royal College of Art in
London, England (1926–1930) was a student instructor at the school (1929–1930), then was an art instructor at other schools. He came to
Canada in 1935 to teach drawing in
Calgary at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art and in 1936 became head of the art department. From then on, he explored western Canada as a painting subject. He was also head of the painting division of the
Banff School of Fine Arts (1937–1966) where he met
A.Y. Jackson and, in 1943, the two artists went north, with a commission from the National Gallery to create studies of the Alaska Highway. In 1937, he began teaching community art classes with the Department of Extension,
University of Alberta, where he went on to establish the Department of Fine Art. He taught there between 1946 and 1966. ==Art career==