ROBERT FORD GAGEN RCA, OSA, CSPWC (1847-1926)
Title: “Atlantic Coast”
“Near Bass Rocks Massachusetts”
Size: 20”x 24” (28 1/2”x 32 1/2”framed) ………..$4250.00
R. F. Gagen was a marine and landscape painter, fluent in both oils and watercolours. He first exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy in 1881, became an associate member (ARCA) in 1880 and a full member (RCA) in 1914. Throughout his lifetime he exhibited approximately 150 paintings at the academy. Furthermore, Gagen was a founding member of the Ontario Society of Artists (OSA), president of the Arts and Letters Club (1919-1920) and founding member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour (Honorary President) 1925-26.
Although regarded mostly as a Canadian artist, J. Russel Harper notes of Gagen working extensively in Gloucester Massachusetts and on the Maine coast. From 1892 to 1922 there were very few years the artist didn’t include an American coastal view at the RCA exhibition.
This circa 1923 marine scene of the Massachusetts coast still retains its original frame and exhibition label when the artist resided on Elm Street Toronto from 1921-6. At the Ontario Society of Artist December 1923 “ Exhibition of Small Paintings and Sculpture “, Robert Ford Gagen’s work #37 “Near Bass Rocks” is exhibited.
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