William Cruikshank (painter)

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William Cruikshank
Born1848/9
Broughty Ferry, Scotland, United Kingdom
Died1922 (aged 72 or 73)
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
NationalityScots Canadian
Alma mater
Known forPainter
ElectedAssociate Royal Canadian Academy of Arts

William Cruikshank (1848/9 – 1922)

Royal Academy School in London with Frederic Leighton and John Everett Millais, and in Paris at the Atelier Yvon.[4] His last studies were interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War
.

Career

Inside the Central Ontario School of Art and Industrial Design in the late-19th century, a school Cruikshank was an instructor at. Cruikshank is pictured in the background.

In 1871, Cruikshank settled in

Nulla Dies Sine Linea (No Day without a Line).[7] Eventual Group of Seven founder, J. E. H. MacDonald, would later say that the northern movement and search for a new Canadian art began with the work of Cruikshank and George Agnew Reid.[8]

In 1884 he was elected an associate member of the

William Van Horne to paint in the Canadian Rockies as part of the Canadian Pacific Railway's public relations program.[10] Some of his paintings are in the National Gallery of Canada and Art Gallery of Ontario. Ploughing, Lower St. Lawrence (c. 1899, Art Gallery of Ontario) reveals his attention to the environment of Canada: it is a landscape subject of habitants in rural Quebec.[11]

Cruikshank and Tom Thomson

Main article: Tom Thomson
See also: Death and legacy of Tom Thomson § An "untainted" artist

It has been suggested that around 1906 or 1907, Tom Thomson took private lessons from Cruikshank at the Ontario College of Art and Design.[12] Only two sources corroborate this however. The first is a single undated note from Cruikshank to professor James Mavor, arranging to bring a "Tomson" [sic] to meet him.[13] Further complicating the matter is that the original class list no longer survives.[14] The second is a letter from H. B. Jackson to Blodwen Davies, writing, "Tom studied from life & the antique in art school. If I remember right Cruikshank was the instructor."[15] Cruikshank was likely Thomson's only art instructor in an art school.[16]

There also are indications in Thomson`s early work that suggest Cruikshank may have been his teacher. Thomson's painting, reputed to be his first oil, Young Man with a Team of Horses, though modest, is said to have caused Cruikshank to tell him, he'd better "keep on".[11] The theme of ploughing Thomson used is found in Cruikshank's Ploughing, Lower St. Lawrence and may indicate Thomson knew the work of Cruikshank.[11] Also, if Thomson had Cruikshank as a teacher, he would have been encouraged by his instructor to carry a pocket sketchbook and obtain constant practice in drawing, and Thomson did fill such sketchbooks with drawings c. 1906.[17]

Gallery

References

Notes

  1. ^ The National Gallery of Canada provides birth and death dates of 25 December 1848 and 19 May 1922, respectively.[1] Robert Stacey and Dennis Reid instead simply provide the years 1849 and 1922.[2][3] The National Gallery of Canada further provides his birthplace as Broughty Ferry, Scotland and his death place as Kansas City, Missouri.[1]

Citations

  1. ^ a b "William Cruikshank". www.gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  2. ^ a b Stacey (2002), p. 52.
  3. ^ Reid (2002), p. 70.
  4. ^ Bradfield 1970, p. n.p..
  5. ^ Murray (1986), p. 6.
  6. ^ Reid (2002), p. 69–70.
  7. ^ Stacey (2002), pp. 52–53.
  8. ^ MacDonald (1926), quoted in Reid (2002), p. 74.
  9. ^ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  10. ^ "William Cruikshank fonds". www.gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  11. ^ a b c Murray 1998, p. 38.
  12. ^
  13. ^ Cruikshank, quoted in Reid (2002), p. 70n21.
  14. ^ Reid (2002), p. 70n21.
  15. ^ Jackson (1931), quoted in Hill (2002), p. 113n18.
  16. ^ Silcox (2015), p. 9.
  17. ^ Murray, Joan (1996). A Tom Thomson Sketchbook. Brampton: Art Gallery of Peel. Retrieved 28 March 2021.

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