Maurice Cullen (artist)

Maurice Cullen RCA (6 June 1866 – 28 March 1934) was a Canadian Impressionist landscape artist best known for his paintings of snow and for his ice harvest scenes where horse-drawn sleighs travel across the frozen waters of Quebec.

Maurice Cullen
Born
Maurice Galbraith Cullen

6 June 1866 (1866-06-06)
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Died28 March 1934 (1934-03-29) (aged 67)
Chambly, Quebec, Canada
NationalityCanadian
EducationMontreal, Conseil des Arts et Manufactures (sculpture); Montreal, with sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert, 1880s; Paris, École des Beaux Arts, with Élie Delaunay, 1889–1892, turned from sculpture to painting; Paris, with Alfred Philippe Roll
Known forPainter, teacher at Art Association of Montreal (1911)
MovementImpressionism
AwardsAssociate, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1895; Associate, Royal Canadian Academy, 1899; member, R.C.A., 1907

Life and work

Cullen was born on June 6, 1866, in St. John's, Newfoundland.[1] In 1870 his family moved to Montreal, Quebec. He travelled to Paris at the age of 22 to study painting at the École des Beaux-Arts and at the Académie Julian.[2] While in Paris, he was influenced by the Impressionists, especially Claude Monet. In 1910, he married Barbara Merchant Pilot, a widow whose son, his stepson, grew up to be the artist Robert Wakeham Pilot. In the same year, he was invited to be a member of the progressive Canadian Art Club.[3]

Beginning in January 1918, Cullen served with Canadian forces in the First World War. He came to the attention of Lord Beaverbrook, who arranged for him to be commissioned as one of the Canadian official war artists along with Frederick Varley, J.W. Beatty and C. W. Simpson.[4]

Cullen died March 28, 1934, at Chambly, Québec.[1]

Exhibitions

William Robinson Watson (1887–1973) in Montreal, of Watson Art Gallery, represented Cullen and published a book on him in 1931.[5] An exhibition, Legacies of Impressionism in Canada: Three Exhibitions, was held from January 31 to April 19, 2009 at the Vancouver Art Gallery. In 2019, the National Gallery of Canada show, Canada and Impressionism: New Horizons, opened in Munich.

Selected works
  • The Mill Stream (ca 1905), National Gallery of Canada.
  • Customs Port, Venice (1897), National Gallery of Canada
  • Rising Tide, Le Pouldu, Bretagne (1901), Musée des beaux-arts du Québec
  • Snowfall, Lac Tremblant (1922) Private Collection
  • Ice Breaking, L'Assomption, (ca 1914), National Gallery of Canada
  • Ile d'Orleans landscape, Musée de la civilisation, Quebec
  • No Man's Land (Douai plain, France) (1920), Canadian War Museum

Honours

See also

Notes
  1. Cybermuse, Maurice Cullen, bio notes Archived 2007-08-16 at Archive.today
  2. "klinkhoff.ca". Archived from the original on 2017-04-24. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  3. "Robert Pilot". Heffel.com. Archived from the original on 2 September 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  4. Davis, Ann. (1992). The Logic of Ecstasy: Canadian Mystical Painting, 1920–1940, p. 30., p. 30, at Google Books
  5. "Watson Art Galleries fonds: Finding Aid". www.gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
  6. Cullen, Maurice. "Collection". www.gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  7. "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  8. "Maurice Galbraith Cullen National Historic Person". Parks Canada. Retrieved 2010-04-02.

References
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