George agnew reid biography

George Agnew Reid (1860-1947) was a.
George Agnew Reid RCA who signed his name as G. A. Reid (July 25, 1860 – August 23, 1947) was a Canadian artist, painter, influential educator and administrator.
A painter, architect, and influential teacher and principal of the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University), he exerted a wide-ranging impact on visual.

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George Agnew Reid - Gifted Gallery

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George Agnew ReidRCA (also known as G. A. Reid), born 25 July 1860, was a Canadian artist, painter, influential educator and administrator. He is best known as a genre painter, but his work encompassed the mural, and genre, figure, historical, portrait and landscape subjects.

G. A. Reid was born on his family's farm in Wingham, Canada West. After briefly apprenticing with an architect, he was trained at the Ontario School of Art, Toronto in 1879, where he studied with Robert Harris. Afterwards, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1882 to 1885 where he was a protégé of Thomas Eakins who appointed him a demonstrator in anatomy classes. He also studied at the Académie Julian, with Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, and at the Académie Colarossi in Paris, and the Prado in Madrid (1888–1889).

He met his first wife artist Mary Hiester Reid at the Pennsylvania Academy and they married in 1885. He remained with her until her death in 1921. He and his wife also made a number of study trips to Europe l

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Michipicoten Bay is listed in George A. Reid’s Catalogue Raisonne

Reid and his 2nd wife Mary Wrinch travelled to this part of Algoma quite often to paint. This was also an are frequented by the Group of Seven. In this year in particular the governement was offering cabins to artists to come and paint. Reid and Mary had two companions stay there at the time. One was Frederick Challener and the other Frederick Brigden. Two artists we also have represented in our collection.

George Agnew Reid was born in 1860 to a farming family in Wingham, Ontario. He showed an early interest in art and eventually, despite his father's initial disproval, became an art student under Robert Harris at the Ontario School of Art in 1879 in Toronto. Reid also studied at the Pennsylvania Academyfrom 1882 to 1885 where he was a protégé of American Realist Thomas Eakins and met his future wifeMary Hiester Reid, also a well-known

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Painting Details

In 1882, Reid first showed a painting at the RCA titled the Last Load. His biographer, Muriel Miller, states that “The Last Load is a study of rural life and might have even been a transcript of the Twenty-Six dollar load which had paid his way to Toronto in 1878”. This relates to the story that his father sold a load of hay for twenty-six dollars and gave this to Reid to help him get set up in Toronto.

To date, we have not been able to locate an image of this painting. The painting was owned by Thomas Mower Martin, a friend and colleague of Reid. This is not the finished painting that is in his catalogue raisonne as it isn’t as large and is stated to have been painted in 1885. There is a note in the catalogue about a small study being done of this painting, but the size isn’t listed. We believe that since he displayed The Last Load at the RCA in 1882 and at the Pennsylvania Academy exhibit in 1884 and that is said to be a small study, that our painting is that study.

A national Canadian art expert supports this attribution. Th