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Biography
“At some hour of the day the commonest subject is beautiful.” - Maurice Cullen
Maurice Cullen was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland in 1866 and moved with his family to Montreal in 1870. He eventually went to Paris and studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Academie Julian until 1892. It is there that he became strongly influenced by the work of the French Impressionists. After participating in an exhibition at the Paris Salon in 1894 and becoming an associate of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Cullen returned to Montreal in 1895. From 1918-1920, he was commissioned as an official war artist. After that time his focus was the Laurentians, where he built a cabin at Lac Tremblant. Cullen depicted landscape in Canada with pastels in keeping with European and Canadian tradition. However his use of luminous, Impressionist-influenced colours influenced the next generation of Canadian artists, notably the Group of Seven.
