Homer Watson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Homer Watson

painter

Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1855

Place of Birth: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 27-May-1936

Profession: painter

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Homer Ransford Watson (January 14, 1855 – May 30, 1936) 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 (1918–1922) of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, as well as a founding member and first president (1907–1911) of the Canadian Art Club.
Although Watson had almost no formal training, by his mid-1920s he was well known and admired by Canadian collectors and critics, his rural landscape paintings making him one of the central figures in Canadian art from the 1880s until the First World War.