Phoebe Amelia Watson

Phoebe Amelia Watson
Phoebe Amelia Watson in 1885
Born1858年6月1日1 June 1858
Doon, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Died22 October 1947(1947年10月22日) (aged 89)
OccupationPainter

Phoebe Amelia Watson (1 June 1858 – 22 October 1947) was a Canadian painter and curator. She worked in painted ceramics, watercolor and oils. She was the sister of Homer Watson, the well-known landscape artist, and devoted much of her life to promoting her brother's work, including her role as the curator of the Homer Watson Art Gallery at Doon.[1]

Life

Phoebe Amelia Watson was born on 1 June 1858 in the village of Doon, now part of the city of Kitchener, Ontario (the area was then in Canada West). Her parents, Ransford Watson (1824–1861) and Susannah Mohr, had married on 3 October 1852.[2] They owned a mill. Phoebe Amelia Watson belonged to the Christadelphians.[2]

Her brother was Homer Watson (1855–1936), who became a celebrated artist.[3] She left school while she was in her teens to help support her widowed mother and her siblings so her brother could devote himself to his art.[4] It was said that "Miss Watson throughout her life has preferred rather than to put forward her own undoubted attainments, to base her chief claim to fame on her relationship with the painter of Doon, who from her childhood days loomed on her horizon a genius."[5]

Watson painted china, and also painted landscapes and portraits in watercolor and oil.[3] In 1896, the Women's Art Association of Canada (WAAC) decided to commission a Canadian State Dinner Service to be painted on china by members of the association.[6] The chosen artists included Watson, Lily Osman Adams (1865–1945) and Alice Egan.[7] Watson painted twelve of the soup plates.[3] Among Watson's portraits are six of mayors of Waterloo, Ontario, and two of Queen Victoria. Her work was exhibited by the Ontario Society of Artists and the Women's Art Association of Canada.[3]

ワトソンは1918年に妻のロクサーナが亡くなった後、兄のホーマーの家に移り住んだ。[ 8 ] 彼女はドゥーンのホーマー・ワトソン美術館の学芸員となり、1947年10月22日に亡くなるまでその職を務めた。彼女は結婚しなかった。[ 2 ]彼女はキッチナーのキンジー墓地に埋葬されている。

2004年当時、ホーマー・ワトソン・ハウスは美術学校と、ホーマー・ワトソンや他の芸術家の作品を展示する4つの部屋を持つ小さなギャラリーとなっていた。[ 9 ]

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