Homer Watson (1855-1936)

Aliases: Homer Ransford Watson

Professions: Landscape painter

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  HOMER RANSFORD WATSON 1855 - 1936

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  HOMER RANSFORD WATSON, O.S.A., P.R.C.A. GRAND

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  HOMER RANSFORD WATSON, O.S.A., P.R.C.A., LANDSCAPE WITH HORSE AND RIDER, oil on canvas, 18 ins x 24 ins; 45 cms x 60 cms

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  HOMER RANSFORD WATSON prca, osa (1855-1936)

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Homer Watson Biography

(b Doon, nr Kitchener, Ont., 14 Jan 1855; d Doon, 30 May 1936). Canadian painter. The son of a mill-owner, he was born in a region of rural southern Ontario, which he painted throughout his life. In 1874 he moved to Toronto to work at the Notman Photographic Studios; he also spent many hours copying paintings in the Toronto Normal School in order to improve his technique. In 1876 he visited New York, where he was impressed with the carefully composed paintings of the Hudson River school and the rural scenes of George Inness, who encouraged Watson to pursue his career. The following year he returned to Doon to work up his New York sketches into finished paintings. A work of this early period, Landscape with River (1878; Toronto, A.G. Ont.), is composed in bands of light and dark and shows Watson’s preoccupation with the dramatic wildness of nature.

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