George agnew reid biography samples

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.

Biography of George Agnew Reid

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.

Works – George Agnew Reid – People – AGO Collections - eMuseum

Two artists we also have represented in our collection.

George Agnew Reid was born in 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 in Toronto.

Reid also studied at the Pennsylvania Academyfrom to where he was a protégé of American Realist Thomas