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Homer Ransford Watson fonds
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Fonds
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1884-1967 (Creation)
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- Watson, Homer Ransford
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0.25 m of textual records, 14 photographs
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Name of creator
(1855-1936)
Biographical history
Homer Ransford Watson was born in 1885 in Doon, Canada West. He became known as the painter of pioneer life in Ontario. From 1918 to 1922 he was president of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art. He died in 1936.
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Scope and content
The fonds consists of correspondence, prose and photographs. Correspondence includes letters to his wife, sister and daughter. Prose includes manuscripts on landscape painters and an untitled novel written when Watson was 15. Included with the personal documents are a marriage license and a will.
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Immediate source of acquisition
Purchase through Chancellor Richardson Memorial Fund.
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- English
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2033
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Open
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None
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No further accruals are expected