Attr Maurice Galbraith Cullen (1866 - 1934) Quebec

Lot 53

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Attr. Maurice Galbraith Cullen (1866 - 1934) Oil on canvas painting of a view of Quebec. Signed lower right and inscribed verso. In a Whistler Style Frame. Image size: 17.5 x 20.5 in. Overall Size: 30 x 33.5 in. In 1895, he was the first Canadian elected associate of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, France. In 1899, he was elected an associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and in 1907 a full member. He was also a member of the Montreal Pen and Pencil Club (1896). In 1918, he was appointed an Official War Artist with the rank of captain, serving in France, Belgium and England. He exhibited at the Paris Salon (1894, 95, 01, 02 and 03), with the Toronto Art Club (1908 - 1915), with the RCA (1893 - 1934) and the Art Association of Montreal (1897 - 1932). Retrospectives of his work were done by l'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montreal in 1913, the Arts Club of Montreal in 1922, and in 1934 by his dealer Watson Galleries in Montreal. Since his death his works have been continuously and widely exhibited in Canada, this includes major retrospectives by the National Gallery of Canada in 1956 and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston, Ontario) in 1983. There were retrospectives by the Kitchner - Waterloo Art Gallery (Ontario) in 1965 and at Galerie Walter Klinkhoff (Montreal) in 1974 and 2000. His works were also included in the "Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art" exhibition at the National Gallery in 1967, in the "Canadian Landscape Painting 1630 - 1930" exhibition which toured the U.S.A. in 1973 and in the "Landscape Painting in Quebec 1800 - 1940" exhibition at the Museum of Quebec (Quebec City) in 1979. His work is avidly collected (3) and is in many private and public collections. Some of the public collections are the McMichael Canadian Collection (Kleinburg, Ontario), the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (B.C.), the Museum of Civilization (Hull, Quebec), the Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Fredericton, New Brunswick), the Quebec Museum of Fine Arts (Quebec City) and the McCord Museum (Montreal). The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa) has 22 of his works. His awards include the Jesse Dow Prize from the Art Association of Montreal in 1911 and 1913.
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