Where can I find Thomas Mower Martin Paintings?
T. Mower Martin’s work, painted over many decades across Canada, are held in major public galleries including the National Gallery of Canada, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Royal Ontario Museum, and the National Archives, to name a few.
What did Thomas Mower Martin do for a living?
He taught oil painting to Lucius R. O’Brien and John Colin Forbes. T. Mower Martin resigned from the school two years later to fulfil his ambition of travelling across Canada from coast to coast to paint scenes of the land. In 1880, T. Mower Martin became a founding member of the Royal Canadian Academy.
Where did Thomas Mower Martin go to school?
Thomas Mower Martin was born in London, England, in 1838, and was educated at military school, with the intention that he enter the East India Company. Instead, T.Mower Martin became interested in drawing and drafting, and went to work for a building contractor, who so happened to be responsible for hanging pictures for the Royal Academy.
Where is the Thomas Mower Martin oil on board?
Description: THOMAS MOWER MARTIN, O.S.A., R.C.A.IN THE MOOSE COUNTRY, NORTH OF GEORGIAN BAY, oil on board; signed 13.75 ins x 19.75 ins; 34.4 cms x 49.4 cms $1,500-2,000Provenance: Masters Gallery Ltd., Calgary.
When did Thomas Mower Martin become an artist?
By 1869, T. Mower Martin was advertising in the papers as a portrait painter but during his career he did mostly landscapes, animals in action, and still life pictures. T. Mower Martin became a founding member of the Ontario Society of Artists in 1872. The artist had already been exhibiting with the Art Association of Montreal (since 1870).
Where did Thomas Mower Martin build his house?
T. Mower Martin picked out a location in the Muskoka region as advertised in the newspaper, 107 acres of farmland. He departed with his wife for Canada in 1862 full of hope for his new venture. He built a house on the land and then discovered his property was mostly rock, with a few acres of swamp thrown in.
Description: THOMAS MOWER MARTIN, O.S.A., R.C.A.IN THE MOOSE COUNTRY, NORTH OF GEORGIAN BAY, oil on board; signed 13.75 ins x 19.75 ins; 34.4 cms x 49.4 cms $1,500-2,000Provenance: Masters Gallery Ltd., Calgary.
When did Thomas Mower Martin go to Canada?
In 1880, T. Mower Martin became a founding member of the Royal Canadian Academy. Later, in the late 1880s he travelled west to paint in the Rocky Mountains with F.M. Bell-Smith and Marmaduke Matthews under the sponsorship of the Canadian Pacific Railway, who allowed them free passage. Afterwards he returned to Western Canada ten summers.
