James W. Morrice (1865-1924)
Promenade, Brittany
Oil
4.5” x 6”
Price on request.
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Artist Origin: Canadian; born in Montréal, Québec; active internationally, particularly in Paris, France.
Artist Type: Canadian Impressionist; Post-Impressionist Painter; Landscape and Cityscape Painter; International Modernist.
Born: August 10, 1865, Montréal, Québec.
Died: January 23, 1924, Tunis, Tunisia.
James Wilson Morrice was one of Canada’s first internationally acclaimed modern painters and a pivotal figure in the development of Canadian Impressionism. After abandoning a legal career, he settled in Paris, where he studied at the Académie Julian and became closely associated with leading Post-Impressionist artists, including James McNeill Whistler and Henri Matisse. Rather than depicting grand narratives, Morrice found poetry in quiet streets, cafés, harbours, and winter landscapes, capturing atmosphere through luminous colour and remarkably economical brushwork. His refined, intimate paintings introduced a distinctly modern sensibility to Canadian art and profoundly influenced generations of artists who followed.
Sandra Paikowsky, James Wilson Morrice (National Gallery of Canada, 1984).
Historical and Contemporary Gallery located in Toronto at 33 Hazelton Ave.
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