Horatio Walker

Horatio Walker (May 12th 1858 - September 27th 1938) was a Canadian painter.

Native of Listowel in Ontario, it is resulting from the marriage of Thomas Walker, him even orgininaire of the Yorkshire, and Jeanne Maurrice. He has Normans roots through his paternal grandmother

He receives a good education with Listowel, making his primary and secondary studies there, but he often makes the school buissonnière and prefers the forests of the Comté of Perth. At twelve years, it makes a visit with his father with Quebec and it is marked by the beauty and the freshness of the old capital. The Walker young person expresses the desire to live a day there.

His/her Thomas father assistance to develop his artistic talents. It sends it to study the photography of 1873 with 1876 near John Arthur Fraser and William Notman with Toronto. Horatio becomes the friend of the painter Homer Watson. Robert Gagen becomes his mentor. He studies in company of Farquhar McGillivray Knowles and travels in Spain.

Walker goes to the World Fair Philadelphia in 1876 and discovers the European Masters. He lives with Rochester until in 1885, where he exerts the trade of photographer and painter. Walker is inspired then by the Greek philosophers as well as Vélasquez, Michel Ange and Joseph Mallord William Turner.

In 1880, it settles in the village of the Epiphany where it begins its drafts pictoriales and cultivates the life of simplicity. Walker with the practice to take long walks between Portneuf and Charlevoix. It weaves bonds with the Canadian-French, acting for them like a headlight towards the outside world.

It goes to Rome and meets the pope Leon XIII to receive a blessing of its chains. It gains its first price with New York in 1881 then it is allowed in American Watercoulour Society in 1882 for the pig-keeper of the pigs .

In 1883, it carries out its dream while settling with Quebec, opening a workshop with the Hôtel Clarendon. It is allowed in the company of the American artists in 1887 and in the National Academy off Design in 1891. During the Years 1890, it goes to Paris once per week. Walker approaches several artistic techniques: Watercolour, Ink, Charcoal, Oil and seeks to paint the fabric of the country.

It joins to the New Yorkean merchant Newman Montross, who succeeds in increasing the request for his works. In 1899, the national Galerie of Canada buys its Bœufs with the feeding trough for ten thousand dollars, which enables him to live comfortablement. Its painting idealizes the Québécois rural life in a pastoral Art, expressing the dignity of the inhabitant . During an exposure to London in 1901, L Art Newspaper compares it with Jean-François Millet because of his attachment to the values of the school of Barbizon. It receives the praises of criticisms Sadakichi Hartmann and Gilbert Parker in 1902. During the Years 1900, it is most famous of the Canadian painters. He lives with London but he returns to the island of Orleans at every summer to paint.

Walker becomes member of the royal Académie of arts of Canada and the Canadian Art Club , of which he becomes the president in 1915. He is also received with the American Watercolour Society .

Walker binds friendship with the painter Clarence Gagnon. Even if it does not have much sympathy to the Impressionnisme, the Futurisme and the Cubisme, it accommodates in its workshop of the modern artists like Maurice Denis, George Desvallières, Henri Charlier and Paul Bellot.

Walker develops a taste for Paul Cézanne and it meets Henri Matisse and Augustus John with Pittsburgh. It develops works of Cornelius Krieghoff, which painted in the same style as him one century earlier.

He studies works of the young Canadian artists who do not know it in person like Octave Bélanger, Georges Duquette, Ozias Leduc, Guido Nincheri, Robert Pilot and Gordon Pfeiffer.

Very devoted towards artistic education in Canada, it temporarily agrees to direct the École of the fine arts of Quebec at the request of Athanase David and of Charles-Joseph Simard and it seeks so that its paintings remain in the province of Quebec.

The First World War means reduction in activity for him and the other artists of its generation. Being withdrawn definitively with the Island of Orleans in the Years 1920, it works in its small studio until the end of its days.

In 1934, it declares that for him, art is to paint what it sees, while rejecting the influence of the religions on its paintings. He dies in Holy-Pétronille in Quebec in 1938 and is buried in the vault Anglican of the village. The Island of Orleans named a street in its honor.

Also let us note that this last has a monument in its memory in the town of Quebec.

Disciples

Works of painting

  • has off Canadian Pastoral
  • After the Wedding
  • An Old Islander
  • At Low Tide
  • Ave Maria
  • By the Fireside
  • Canoe Cove
  • Célestin
  • Corner Pig Lane in Quebec
  • Corner off the Stable
  • Corner off Holy-Pétronille
  • Deo Gratias
  • De profundis
  • Église of the Island-with-Cranes
  • Fagot Gatherers
  • Farhouse Interior
  • First Snow
  • Fishing Nets
  • Girl with Turkeys
  • Golden Dew
  • Hauling the Log
  • Hauling Wood
  • Hay Making
  • Horses At Through
  • Ice Cutters
  • Interior off has House
  • Killing Pigs
  • the Meeting
  • the soue with pigs
  • the shearing of the sheep
  • the old furnace
  • Little White Pigs and to their MOther
  • Man Sawing Wood
  • Maple Sugar Harvest
  • Mare and Foal
  • Milking Early Morn
  • Milking one the Batture
  • Milk Maid Island of Orleans
  • Morning Island of Holy-Pétronille Orleans
  • Moring
  • Old House At Holy-Family
  • Oxen drinking
  • Oxen Ploughing
  • Peasant Scrpaing Pig
  • Pétronille of Saint-François
  • Potato Gatherers
  • Preparing the Feed
  • Sheep Shearers
  • Spring Drilling
  • The Bake Oven
  • The Farmer' S Wife
  • The Gardener
  • The Harrow
  • The Rainbow
  • The Return
  • The Royal Mail
  • The Sheep Fold
  • The Shepperdess
  • The Sorcerers
  • The Smugglers
  • The Thresher
  • The Tukey Girl
  • Turning the harrow
  • Turkeys
  • Turning the Harrow
  • Tree Fellers
  • Unloading Hay Boat
  • Old House with Co.-Family
  • Way Side Shrine At the St. Lawrence
  • Winter
  • Wood-Cutters

Quotation

  • “You edge teach the trade; art boat Be taught.”
  • “You can teach the trade; art cannot be learned.”

Sources

  • Articles of '' Paul Lavoie '', the Duty, 1938.
  • M.O. Hammond in '' Canadian Magazine '', 1919.
  • Encyclopedia Marianopolis
  • William G. Colgate, '' Canadian Magazine '', 1934.

External bonds

  • Page on Horatio Walker
  • virtual Museum of Canada
  • national Gallery of Canada

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