Homer Watson
Homer Ransford Watson was a Canadian landscape painter. He was the man who first saw Canada as Canada, rather than as dreamy blurred pastiches of European painting, according to J. Russell Harper, a former curator of Canadian art at the National Gallery of Canada. He was a member and president of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, as well as a founding member and first president of the Canadian Art Club.
The son of Ransford Watson and Susan Mohr, Homer Watson was born on January 14, 1855 in the village of Doon , Ontario. He received his first set of paints from an aunt and he decided to become an artist. He sought the advice of Thomas Mower Martin in Toronto, and moved there in 1874. He copied works at the Toronto Normal School and was mainly selftaught, but met other artists in Toronto while working parttime at a photography studio.
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