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Homer Watson

Painter (1855-1936) · Canada · Artists · Died at 81

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Homer Ransford Watson was a Canadian landscape painter. He has been characterized as the painter who first painted Canada as Canada, rather than as a pastiche of European painting.

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Homer Ransford Watson was a Canadian landscape painter. He has been characterized as the painter who first painted Canada as Canada, rather than as a pastiche of European painting. He was a member and president (1918-1922) of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, as well as a founding member and first president (1907-1911) of the Canadian Art Club. Although Watson had almost no formal training, by the mid-1920s he was well known and admired by Canadian collectors and critics, his rural landscape paintings making him one of the central figures in Canadian art from the 1880s until the First World War.

Country
Canada
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1855 to 1936 · aged 81

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